TorrentSpy shuts down to US searches?

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Got this message at their site just now when doing a search:

Torrentspy Acts to Protect Privacy

Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website.Torrentspy's decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws.

I just used them last night, so the change must have just happened...sucks.

 

[Blindgroping]

That sucks. And right when i was going to look for some stuff.

 

[BlazerBoy]

Appears to be so, I guess. As a funny aside, I couldn't help but notice that Miss South Carolina's horrible answer during the Miss Teen USA competition is listed as one of the top videos there.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

I noticed this earlier. Pretty stupid, and it can be circumvented with a proxy, but Torrentspy has been getting increasingly useless lately anyway. There are always other sources.

As a funny aside, I couldn't help but notice that Miss South Carolina's horrible answer during the Miss Teen USA competition is listed as one of the top videos there.

That thing is everywhere now. I'd feel sorry for her but as they say, "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

 

[Mentalist]

Demonoid and Mininova are where it's at.

IF either of them don't have what I'm looking for (a rarity) then and only then will I go further afield.

 

[whisky]

And dont forget piratebay

 

[Cacophony]

I used to use TorrentSpy until I started using Demonoid.

My friend relies heavily on TS, she'll probably flip a shit when she finds that she can't access it anymore.

 

[FBI parte due]

I get my heroin straight from the source.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I read somewhere that TS did the shutdown because the RIAA was about to get access to their downloader records.

If so, thanks Torrentspy!

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

^ It was something like that, though I haven't paid too much attention to the details. Apparently they've been involved with some legal wranglings by the MPAA for awhile, who wanted them to turn over their logs so they could get IP addresses to find more dead grandmothers to sue.

:mystery:

 

[Henoch]

i noticed this as well. But in the past several months the intrusive pop-ups & tracking cookies have been in such abundance i have stopped going there for the most part. i say...GOOD RIDDANCE!!

pirate bay
mininova
isohunt

my fav sites to frequent.

 

[Henoch]

i have never been able to get into demonoid. i still don't get why some sites do that registration crap!

 

[BlazerBoy]

DAMMIT! Mininova is having some sort of SQL issues and of course TorrentSpy is gone.......

ARGH! Its getting so hard to steal copyrighted materials these days.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Use Isohunt, it searches all the others anyway.

http://www.isohunt.com/

 

[NeonMercuryASH]

i noticed this as well. But in the past several months the intrusive pop-ups & tracking cookies have been in such abundance i have stopped going there for the most part. i say...GOOD RIDDANCE!!

pirate bay
mininova
isohunt

my fav sites to frequent.

iso hunt is great.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

ISOHunt Begins Blocking US Visitors


Demonoid is also down and may have been shitcanned by the Canadian recording industry.

Fun times, fun times.

Edit: Apparently Demonoid is having system problems and is restoring from backup.

 

[NeonMercuryASH]

That sucks.

 

[Mentalist]

I really hope that Demonoid hasn't been downed. But didn't they just restore from a back-up about a month ago?

 

[NeonMercuryASH]

I just got some torrent swapper 1.0.0 it takes iso hunt.