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- Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+211"Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com"
What the *****? I live in England. This is *****. - Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -18/+156What you didn't get the memo?
Bush issued a signing statement and now England is the 51st state of the Empire. Don't worry you'll have all the rights of an American. Well...at least the ones we have left. Cheers. - baalzebub, on 10/10/2007, -3/+128just unplug the RAM and put it in an envelope and snail mail it to them, oh, be sure to have some new RAM to replace it with first...
- mrwiggles123, on 10/10/2007, -4/+127They are blocking because they have to report you, ***** idiots
right on torrentspy - Cabochon, on 10/10/2007, -9/+99I'm glad I live in Canada.
- HarryTruman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+88"the MPAA demands that TorrentSpy hands over all user info stored in “random access memory” (RAM)."
They should just go ahead and hand over all that user data...that they store in their RAM...??! - madh4tter, on 10/10/2007, -2/+73One goes down, another springs up. So goes the way of the pirate.
- physphd, on 10/10/2007, -4/+73Baby steps to censoring the interent in the U.S.
- HenvY, on 10/10/2007, -8/+66This is a shame for US users because i've always found that TorrentSpy has the best layout and GUI of any torrent search engine. ***** MPAA. :/
- Valermos, on 10/10/2007, -6/+61Who says I can't be from another country? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=free+web+proxy&btnG=Search
- garionw, on 10/10/2007, -14/+66ouch.... I never really liked it anyway - I prefer mininova
- thomascirca, on 10/10/2007, -2/+50this does not bode well for the future of torrent sites and torrent users. even if it does get shut down, remember:
"this is how it works. Whatever you sink, we build back up. Whomever you sue, ten new pirates are recruited. Wherever you go, we are already ahead of you. You are the past and the forgotten, we are the internet and the future." - Ebeniz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+40ok, here's the RAM sticks... Good luck
- fgsfds, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31I think they should do exactly that - Have a single low-capacity server with ultra-underclocked RAM and an insanely fast RAID (30 or so cheap disks in a stripe configuration) handle the US, and start logging raw RAM writes. Then send them the entire log via email in 2mb chunks. Since raw RAM writes are fairly worthless, the MPAA should soon realizes that they're getting TBs of useless junk data clogging their systems. The MPAA couldn't exactly complain to the judge, as TS would are providing exactly what the MPAA was requesting in exactly the way it was requested. Even better? The RAM used by the RAM logging program would naturally have to be logged, which could result in a HOM effect that would quickly saturate the logs.
I don't have a problem with the MPAA defending their property, I just have a problem with stupid precedents set and laws made by idiot judges and lawyers who have no idea how what they're legislating functions. - Brereton55, on 10/10/2007, -15/+44Who still uses that website anyway?
- SPNKrPunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29"the MPAA demands that TorrentSpy hands over all user info stored in 'random access memory' (RAM)."
Stop me if I'm wrong here. The MPAA, in their infinite lack of wisdom, wants TorrentSpy to dump the contents of their server RAM into a log file so that volatile data is not lost. Wouldn't that produce massive, unusable log files? - CurtHowland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26Criminals use roads to facilitate bank robberies. Let's ban roads.
- sctwp09, on 10/10/2007, -5/+30***** Alberto Gonzales.
- Hoinah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25MPAA: Give us that RAM data!
Them: oops some dumb intern reset the computers... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+29Smashing good comment, chap.
- blanktarget, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25All information stored in RAM? So...reboot their servers.
- mateo60, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24Actually, I appreciate Torrentspy doing this. They know that their records could get turned over and they don't want any users to get in trouble.
- funchords, on 10/10/2007, -7/+29America: "Home of the Free?"
I understand and admire TorrentSpy's decision. This protects the privacy of the unwitting. Using foreign proxy services would be a great work-around -- make sure you register your TorrentSpy account to a non-US country. - Hoinah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22funny thing is, you could just google "Torrentspy (search query)"
Torrentspy only has to report what you _SEARCH_ for, not what you access, leech or seed. heh the MPAA is so ***** retarded - SuperOmegaSlack, on 10/10/2007, -13/+34TOR.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Technically, it isn't really censorship when the site itself is doing it. Still, that they were legally strong-armed into this is concerning.
- kurttrail, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Another tard that thinks file sharing is only about piracy.
- Matt2k, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24TOR is for more noble purposes than this.
- noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20send the mpaa a bill for the replacement ram and file a counter suit if they don't pay.
- oriondarkwood, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager
Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what
made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of
the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain
for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms.
Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is
cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I
screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...
Or feels threatened by me...
Or thinks I'm a smart ass...
Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is
found.
"This is it... this is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to
them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at
school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike. - daRoach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18When they came for the TorrentSpy users I did nothing because I am not a TorrentSpy user.
- Snoius, on 10/10/2007, -7/+24Apparently, the University of Nebraska isn't part of the United States anymore, the site loads fine for me.
- PaulOwen, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Don't blame TorrentSpy, US citizens or the MPAA - it is the US government that allows organizations to demand the contents of volatile memory from a server.
- devate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Obviously that file is far too large for notepad....he'd have to use wordpad, geez.
- Hoinah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I could so see that actually happening
- xxpor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+131995 called, they want their SIMMS back.
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Whose the gullible one the troofer or the troofer hater? I think its pretty obvious that it was a joke. You can rest easy now.
- uberchaoslord, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13We already have that. We elected what we thought was a conservative and he immediately began doing all the things we hated about the liberals.
- illu45, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I would imagine that they mean "all data that passes through the RAM", although with the RIAA, you never really know, do you?
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15This ad brought to Digg by users like you. :)
- dualscreenman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I'm waiting for the judge to try to open up a multi-petabyte "RAM log" in Notepad, lulz.
- hexydes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12True, but it is companies like the MPAA that ask for it in the first place, and the US citizens are at fault for not being knowledgeable enough about the situation to demand that the government fix the problem.
- geddon, on 10/10/2007, -7/+18i remember something about a tea party in boston. if i remember correctly, the citizens of the united states protested against british taxation without representation by.. (let me get this straight).. sitting in their homes, complaining on digg, playing warcraft to pass the time. viva la revolucion!
- jmnormand, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10well you see judge since we had no way of knowing which part of the binary was the ip we simply had to pick out ever possible 16 digits out of the terabytes of code and now we want to sue every possibility just to be sure... well yes we realize there are more ips here than people living in the us but... but...
- graemee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The true essence of Canadian politics.
- napsack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I can totally imagine people searching a bunch of ***** 'bush anal xxx' '***** mpaa' etc.. lol
- mojoel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Aye
- colonelpanic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Booo TorrentSpy blocking the US....
Hooray Beer!
(beer can be used interchangeably with demonoid) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10.
- HerbSolo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Hey - if i ran that service, i wouldn't have a problem with that demand. I'd immediately dismount my ram, and send it to them.
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