Torrentspy closed

[CrustClock]

http://www.torrentspy.com/

Friends of TorrentSpy,

We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the Torrentspy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.

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

I like how they're claiming the moral highground by saying that they were looking out for their user's rights. Apart from that, that site had adverts and content so closely interwoven that you didn't know where to click, encouraged people to download malicious spyware to line their own pockets, assaulted every user with a fog of flashing pop-ups and generally provided one of the worst torrent services available on the internet. Good riddance.

[Arctic]

Fuck, it was definitely my favorite site to use.

[AlbinoClock]

I was gonna say, why the thread? When Demonoid went down, sure, but fuck Torrentspy.

[CrustClock]

Fuck, it was definitely my favorite site to use.

Mininova is far better, it actually gives a shit about its users.

I was gonna say, why the thread? When Demonoid went down, sure, but fuck Torrentspy.

I suppose. edit: I also wanted to bring up how offensively pompous that message was.

[buttplug]

Mininova is far better, it actually gives a shit about its users.

I use that now, but it doesn't come close to Demonoid. I have never gotten a bad file on Demonoid, it seemed to have a lot more of the stuff I wanted, and people seeded more.

[FluxCapacitorClock]

I use //www.youtorrent.com and //www.torrentz.com.

They search through a shitload of different sites, mininova included.

[peyoteclock]

torrentspy was ok like 2 years ago i haven't used it in forever it was complete shit.

i'll just stick to mah private trackas

[ChocolateBarClock]

Torrents.ru is great if you know Russian! or use Google's translator

[coalclock]

Piratebay for life dawg!

[SoBe Clock]

Doesn't matter to me anyway. Comcast caught me downloading torrents a long time ago. If I do it again I have a multi-million dollar lawsuit on my hands.

[FlossClock]

Pirate Bay all the way.

[buttplug]

Doesn't matter to me anyway. Comcast caught me downloading torrents a long time ago. If I do it again I have a multi-million dollar lawsuit on my hands.

Ahahaha are you serious? That really sucks. Fucking money grubbing assholes.

[SoBe Clock]

Ahahaha are you serious? That really sucks. Fucking money grubbing assholes.

Yeah, I'm serious.

[CrustClock]

Yeah, I'm serious.

 how did it happen? A story like that deserves a thread of its own.

[buttplug]

 how did it happen? A story like that deserves a thread of its own.

I'll bet they would sue him and take away all his belongings and his home if he talked about it.

[PirateClock]

isohunt

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

//www.torrentz.com

My favorite torrent search engine, I highly recommend it.

[FlossClock]

//www.extratorrent.com is good too.

[TwistClock]

I just Use isohunt.

[Maltese]

I use torrentz.com most of the time, but if I can't find what I want, I use thepiratebay.org

I like that we are talking about this and not getting banned.