iq_132 Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 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 http://www.torrentspy.com/http://torrentfreak.com/torrentspy-shuts-down-080327/discuss!
Devia Eleven Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 This is one search engine for torrents out of a pile of many others. I never used TorrentSpy often, because there were always better alternatives.
Chibi Kami Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 mininova was always more reliable anyway. They host only the torrent files, never the files being torrented, have zero tolerance for viruses, and make a point of not maintaining records.
emwearz Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Public trackers suck anyway, TorrentLeech for the kill.
Inky Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Public trackers suck anyway, TorrentLeech for the kill.agreed, and even in the public trackers field torrent spy was not on my list of places to search. now if the bay or IH closed down that would be a major blow to torrents.
Samurai Edge Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 torrent spy was the first torrent search engine I get to know, but it's too messy and with those adult stuffs ads. There are indeed more alternatives.
Ryuken Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 tried to use torrentSpy when Suprnova went down but it sucked and now i use mininova and i like it. never used a private tracker though
Mag Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 who cares.. all you need is TPB, and mininova. Speaking of mininova, it has sorta became the successor of suprnova.
Agozer Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Yes, TorrentSpy and Mininova are just indexers. Anyway, I've never used TorrentSpy much, but I guess you could say that TorrentSpy going down for good was just a matter of time.
Tynvar Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Sad to see a site like this go. But there will be others. The end of Napster didn't end file sharing and neither will this.
Chibi Kami Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 who cares.. all you need is TPB, and mininova. Speaking of mininova, it has sorta became the successor of suprnova. Mininova IS Supernova. After Supernova's domain name got bought out, they changed domain hosting and switched names.
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