p2pnet - rss feed: Hollywood kills TorrentSpy
p2pnet news | P2P:- It’s been a long and bitter fight, but finally, Hollywood’s MPAA has driven BitTorrent tracker TorrentSpy offline.
“We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the Torrentspy.com search engine to an end,” says founder Justin Bunnell, going on >>>
The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy of search requests, and links to torrent files in search results is simply too hostile. We spent the last two years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, defending the rights of our users and ourselves.
Ultimately the Court demanded actions that in our view were inconsistent with our privacy policy, traditional court rules, and International law; therefore, we now feel compelled to provide the ultimate method of privacy protection for our users - permanent shutdown.
It was a wild ride,
The TorrentSpy Team
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order […] and the like.” - Justice William O. Douglas
“Over the past few months the TorrentSpy crew has made several drastic changes to their website,” said p2pnet in October, 2007, going on:
“They’ve stopped hosting .torrent files, and even banned US visitors.
“However, this isn’t enough, according to the MPAA which has filed another complaint and asked the judge for sanctions against the popular BitTorrent site. In August, a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to log all user data stored in RAM.”
But TorrentSpy, “destroyed evidence, claiming it was protecting users’ privacy, a judge said the act made a fair trial impossible and imposed a $30,000 fine, says The Register, going on:
“The December decision marked the knockout blow in a lengthy pummeling of TorrentSpy by the film industry lobby. The site’s operators unsuccessfully attempted to appease US courts by applying a filter against copyright files. When that didn’t work it began blocking American IP addresses.
“The restrictions resulted in a slide in the popularity of TorrentSpy among filesharers, which was funded by advertising.
“Its crown as the most popular BitTorrent tracker was taken by the Pirate Bay.”
Also See:
p2pnet - MPAA after TorrentSpy. Again, October 12, 2007
The Register - MPAA copyright punch up knocks out TorrentSpy, March 27, 2008
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March 27th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Good thing the Pirate Bay isn’t based in America… I wonder how long it will be until the MPAA and RIAA go after Yahoo! and Google?
March 27th, 2008 at 11:48 am
when pigs fly. that’s when.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
TorrentSpy sucked anyway, bad format. No worries, these sites are like mushrooms, take 1 down, 5 new appear.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Torrentspy wasnt the better site, but it didnt suck either. It is sad seeing it going offline. I found it´s ads quite annoying, but the torrents worked fairly well. Futhermore, its admin never gave the logs to the MAFIAA even when it threatened him, so he deserves some credit. R.I.P Torrentspy, TPB and Mininova will avenge you…
March 27th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Generally, when I couldn’t find anything on Piratebay or Demonoid, I shifted to TorrentSpy, but it is sad to see it go down. ’twas the first site I used…
We’ll miss you TS!
March 27th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Talk about fairness, what about a monetary refund from Hollywood film industry for their false , misleading advertsiments on all of the clearly poor films that do not meet the viewers pre expecations firstly.. or is screwing the consumer always protected falsely by the courts still too..
March 28th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Buy a CD and all but one songs sucks .. you can’t return it .. sorry.
Buy a piece of software, it doesn’t perform as advertised .. can’t return it .. too bad.
” or is screwing the consumer always protected falsely by the courts still too.. ”
The answer seems pretty obvious