Stop Using TorrentSpy: Ordered to Start Tracking Visitors

news.com.com — TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search engine, was ordered on May 29 by a federal judge in the Central District of California in Los Angeles to create logs detailing users' activities on the site. Jun 9, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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sino Jun 10, 2007

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go to the torrentspy homepage before you all start talking about how 'shifty' they are, : "Hello Friends of TorrentSpy,This message is to inform you about recent efforts by the motion picture studios to shut down TorrentSpy. As you may know, in February 2006 the major movie studios and their Washington lobby, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), filed a lawsuit against TorrentSpy and other search engines.We guess that hiring hackers and turning a blind eye to identity theft is not enough for the movie studios and the MPAA. Now they want to know who you are, what you search for, and what you download. In short, it is the view of the movie studios that websites should not allow anonymous use and your activity on the Internet - anywhere - is their business.The really scarry thing is that if we lose this court battle, the movie studios will be able to go after any search engine or website and force them to collect data about YOU. It is not an exaggeration to say that losing this fight is a nail in the Internet's coffin.We have spent the last year challenging their relentless campaign against the 1st Amendment and personal privacy laws Worldwide. We have succeeded in delaying the court order to turn on logs while we appeal it. TorrentSpy will not create logs of what you do on the site without your consent.While we use Google Analytics for website statistics, TorrentSpy servers have never tracked your IP Address, the searches you make, or how you use the site. We are dedicated to your privacy and we are fighting for your rights!"

skippy562 Jun 10, 2007

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fighting for rights to party?

nnnet Jun 10, 2007

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doesn't matter if u live outside "U.S. and A". no other country have stupid law like that!

shadus Jun 12, 2007

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@nicksvideo - No, I'm not. There is no scene anymore, it died many years ago period. The current scene is a bunch of posers who know next to nothing about computers and are either script kiddies or movie encoders. I do however remember when there WAS a scene. Although, that being said I feel old since I can also remember when you could red box almost every pay phone you came to... and conference calls... and... anyways... Damn kids.That being said bittorrent and newsgroups are the most bandwidth efficient methods of spreading a file once it gets past the level of uploader/cracker/courier/group level... when you need a mass distribution method it's hard to beat those two. When dealing with files inside a group or moving items from one person to another, no one would use those... there's no reason to. However, direct download is too bandwidth intensive (expensive) for 100,000+ users to grab a file that's more than a few hundred mb... and when you get into movies and such that range into the gb range it becomes non-feasible in any way shape or form. The reality of it is... most group don't end distribution of a file at their borders, it goes out into the net in some manor for thousands of others to access... be that public tracker, private tracker, newsgroups, irc, etc.

sabach Jun 13, 2007

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So f**ker3, enlighten us with your exploits in support of users rights...Ah, so I expected, you want us to lead the way so you can safely follow. I don't know about you, but I've been knocked in the head enough times to suit me. I'll be watching how your lawsuit turns out before I embark upon my journey of self-abuse.

happyhappyhappy Jul 19, 2007