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- MasterThief117, on 10/14/2007, -5/+178In other news, water is wet and ice cold.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+93Good luck stopping the rest of the 1000's of torrent sites....
- mastercheif, on 10/10/2007, -4/+47Are you telling me that sites lose traffic when they block an entire country? Holy Crap!
- ErBiC, on 10/10/2007, -0/+42Pirate Bay is just as good in the US as it is in the EU.
- billymonster, on 10/10/2007, -9/+36oh no, what will i do without all the sweet porn ads?
torrentspy blows. - MadEnvoy, on 10/10/2007, -10/+35...and ***** stinks.
- shaitanx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Actually, no. They're still there on the torrentspy homepage.
- Racerx52, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18We consume like no other place, You new here?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14those and other such crappy songs you will no longer get to download from torrentspy.
- fatbobsmith, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14It's interesting that the graph shows all other torrent sites increasing in traffic at least as much as the drop in torrentspy traffic. This doesn't seem to be a very effective strategy for the MPAA.
- IndigoMoss, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10The thing that sucks about most private torrent sites, is that they usually don't have the more obscure stuff that's been released a while ago. They make up for it in ridiculous speed.
- metalica77, on 10/10/2007, -9/+18I have to say I'm one of those people responsible for the downfall of TS. Ever since TS crapped out on there U.S user base I have gone to mininova for my public stuff
Honestly There where only 3 main sites online for torrents
Torrentspy+Mininova for the U.S
Piratebay for the EU and other countries in that region - Tishiablo, on 10/10/2007, -8/+17You only got the ads whenever you searched for porn...
- Mesmorize, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8It's not so much that I care about them stopping piracy as much as it is that I don't like them banning me from websites.
- KungFuJesus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9btjunkie? isohunt? there are plenty of torrent sites dude
- readerofbooks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9i love dc++ my college has a hub as well talk about ridiculous speed only problem is my stupid school newspaper just wrote about it so its been shut down until we can get a new hub admin
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+15So its the US, not Sweden??
- j.carcinogen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9wow very '90s.
- fatadamblog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I'm from Australia and I use torrentspy, but with no US seeders theres not much point now. I really wish they would release episodes of shows here around the same time (or a few months off) not an entire year or 2 years.
- wilsgrant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I find it funny how people think "private" trackers are safe. Listen, you are some random guy on the internet. You were able to register. How "private" can it really be? It isn't.
- Sithseth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Now I know how it feels to live in China...
- xXMetalJesusXx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+890's yes...
But highly effective... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11I feel bad for all you guys who are stuck on public sites. In other news, Bitsoup and Supertorrents are open right now guys, so hurry up and grab the glory of private sites!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Right now, it's pretty much thepiratebay.
- Onetrack, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8thats what Adblock is for..
- erkokite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6We also have a lot of talented, new indie bands that are gaining recognition through online distribution.
Record companies still spend millions of dollars marketing crap. Maybe artists just aren't interested in signing record deals as much as they used to, and are going indie. - noser, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12Americans like to think it's their place in the world to pass laws that affect people in other countries. Then when Johnny Q Foreigner breaks a US law that they didn't even know existed they can be convicted in absentia. Then the local poliz rousts them on behalf of the US and their lives are generally over. It's happened to a few 'noisy' Canadians already. They are in US jails now.
- EugineMW, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8I'm not even American but I don't even visit there anymore. Come on, everytime I have to download a torrent, they link me to another site (usually mininova). I guess that explains the spike in mininova's hits. (If you watch the graph carefully, the graphs of torrentspy and mininova is kinda a mirror of each other)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7oh for gods sake. i only use torrentspy for all the commets on it. now i cant even do that. ***** u MPAA!
go australia :P - themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12First Demonoid blocking Canadian traffic now TorrentSpy blocking US traffic? When will the killing end!?
- fridx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Sorry, did you say honest politician?
How very deluded of you. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Honestly, if you have those places, you don't need Demonoid. Demonoid is ***** compared to real private sites.
- SiNN4R, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6racist.
- IndigoMoss, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Do you guys remember what that program was called that checks for open registrations for private torrent sites?
- ZigVicious, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4nationalist.
- jacobsor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The judge didn't order them to store the logs in RAM. The article's inaccurate. She ordered them to turn on their IIS server logs and store them to disk, like many websites do.
- SiNN4R, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Private sites are more about being a dedicated uploader. If you are the type of person that leaves on your bit torrents to get a 2.0 or 3.0 share ratio then private servers are for you. I found private sites annoying though since there tends to be so few people to upload to it takes forever to get a 2.0 or 3.0 share ratio. Personally I prefer public servers.
- 0crabby0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4anything.
- jacobsor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Agreed. There was testimony in the Capital v. Thomas case that the record labels have lost sales by something like 50% in the past five years. Who knows if that number is really accurate, but surely they're losing some sales because of piracy. (And therefore the artists are hurting as well.)
Granted, if you're a top-tier artist, you won't be starving. But it probably hurts enough of the smaller artists to cause some pain (and discourage some from having a go at it).
If some indie bands choose to distribute their music for free and try a different economic model for paying the rent, more power to them. That's what copyright is theoretically about, letting the artists control how their music (or other creative work) is distributed, for the greater public good of encouraging them to keep making it. At the same time, artists who don't choose this model shouldn't be penalized through piracy. - tantajoa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Torrentspy was my favorite because it was the only one that I found that had a lot of useful comments about the torrent. Now that the comments are gone, what is the site with the best comments?
- Jebral, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No tracker, it is just an indexer.
- Fatcheeseguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Use a proxy then go on torrentspy!! or anonymouse.org!
- Dustmuffins, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5demonoid?
- DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Losing significant traffic still isn't going to change anything. It's not like they had a choice. In fact other torrent sites will probably be targeted next until they block access too.
- IndigoMoss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'd rather them block my traffic to there site, then logging my IP while I visit there site without me knowing about it.
- SSCrow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The greatness of Torrentspy was the comments and ratings.
Since those have gone, its just not the same. - twtmc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4If you REALLY want to use torrentspy, they probably didn't block US visitors from the tracker, just from the site.
- jacobsor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sorry, bad link:
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/pdf/ne/2007/Torrentspy. ... - FyberOptic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I commend the guys for taking the "***** you RIAA" stance and blocking all US users instead of leaving it and having to turn them all in.
- fridx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Its the best thing to use when you are on a large network such as a college. Over the internet though, its rubbish
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