The Malaysian government has ordered webhosting provider Shinjiru to close down BitTorrent site LeechersLair.com.

The execution order came from the catch-titled Content, Consumer and Network Security Division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.

LeechersLair was a well-established tracker which was launched in 2006. It had more than 18,000 members and was hosted in Malaysia. The Commission order the closure claiming that the site was in breach of Section 41 of the Copyright Act 1987.

Periodically the Malaysian government has moved against torrent sites hosted by Shinjiru but most of them returned elsewhere. However what is alarming this time is that the government has installed a hard-drive on the Shinjiru server.