Da-Chief
03-27-2008, 16:50
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Last year Torrentspy blocked all U.S. visitors (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/86995) as part of their ongoing legal fight with the MPAA. Now the website is officialy dead; the outfit announcing this week that they're shutting down operations for good (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080327/105542666.shtml). This wasn't a result of legal action, but because Torrentspy simply figures they cannot win after a protracted fight with the MPAA. That fight involved MPAA-paid hackers breaking into TorrentSpy systems, but also involved TorrentSpy destroying evidence. From a statement posted to the company's website (http://www.torrentspy.com/):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.
CNET (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9904810-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20) has an interesting follow up conversation with the folks behind the Canada-based Torrent search portal ISOHunt (http://isohunt.com/), who say they'll continue their legal fight against the entertainment industry.
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Last year Torrentspy blocked all U.S. visitors (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/86995) as part of their ongoing legal fight with the MPAA. Now the website is officialy dead; the outfit announcing this week that they're shutting down operations for good (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080327/105542666.shtml). This wasn't a result of legal action, but because Torrentspy simply figures they cannot win after a protracted fight with the MPAA. That fight involved MPAA-paid hackers breaking into TorrentSpy systems, but also involved TorrentSpy destroying evidence. From a statement posted to the company's website (http://www.torrentspy.com/):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.
CNET (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9904810-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20) has an interesting follow up conversation with the folks behind the Canada-based Torrent search portal ISOHunt (http://isohunt.com/), who say they'll continue their legal fight against the entertainment industry.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/TorrentSpy-Calls-It-Quits-93046)
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