torrentfreak.com — Starting today, TorrentSpy blocks all searches from US visitors and redirects them to a privacy statement. TorrentSpy is caught up in a lawsuit in which the MPAA demands that TorrentSpy hands over all user info stored in “random access memory” (RAM).
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IllBeBackAug 27, 2007
You are not "Free" to steal OR infringe.
Closed AccountAug 28, 2007
Yeah, because more than 0.01% of torrent searches are for those things.
sleepykitAug 28, 2007
No offense to torrentspy, I'm sure they have their reasons, but they shouldn't be baby sitters in this case. Let Americans do what they want and suffer the consequences accordingly instead of this. Not only does the site make it seem like Americans can't take care of themselves online but also implies that everyone from the country whi visits the site is doing something illegal. That's what gets to me the most.
badassninjaAug 28, 2007
Stopped being the land of the free a long time ago.
myakAug 28, 2007
You wouldn't like to live where I live, believe me :D Well, it is European Union but Poland is even more sick than US, at least when it comes to politicians, laws and things like that. You talk about drama and repeated bulls**t, read some news about Poland and laugh because we're having a real comedy here that would top the box office charts and make billions of USD if it were played in cinema theathers. Oh wait, you can't read news about Poland because "we is Engrish not understant". I could elaborate on this subject for hours and hours and you'd be happy that you live in US most of the time but it's waaaay too off topic. I suppose it's not you, literally. But someone did vote and in fact elected people who enforced those laws. I firmly believe most of Digg readers didn't, but US, like any other democracy, is ruled by idiots who elect idiots who then do idiotic things. And when the idiocy reaches its maximum, people finally elect someone who is the right person on the right place (e.g. Margaret Thatcher in UK) and that's why democracy is good. Unfortunately d(idiocy)/dt >> 0 in US (in case you're not familiar with calculus, it means that idiocy is growing fast in time ;) but I hope someday US citizens will wake up. Hopefully on the 2008 election. And maybe then someone will get things right.
anamanamanAug 29, 2007
Its really really insane. Luckily the fact that the judges are so computer illiterate means they can hand them any chunk of random bits every month and claim that's their RAM dump, "interpret it as you will"
lurkrAug 29, 2007
The lawsuit threat is chickens**t. If you've ever read the front page blog you know the torrentspy guy hates the US and hates all americans. This is his way of sticking it to america.
wesamsaifOct 2, 2007
I found this site (it looks like a marketing site for the program), but it works. The connections sometimes is slow.<a class="user" href="http://www.torrentspyusa.com/">http://www.torrentspyusa.com/</a>