Comments on: Iceland’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Faces Permanent Shutdown

By: website design

website design — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:59:27 +0000

The hydra effect should kick in any day now

By: Torrent Much? — SEO Zeitgeist

Torrent Much? — SEO Zeitgeist — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:20:25 +0000

[...] on Torrent Freak, I was reading about how torrent.is was by far the most popular torrent tracker in Iceland, but [...]

By: Torrent Much? — SEO Zeitgeist

Torrent Much? — SEO Zeitgeist — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:20:25 +0000

[...] on Torrent Freak, I was reading about how torrent.is was by far the most popular torrent tracker in Iceland, but [...]

By: Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » Iceland's Largest BitTorrent Tracker Wins in Court

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:14:29 +0000

[...] one site may have closed its doors thanks to the MPAA, after continuous legal pressure, another has prevailed today in court. Torrent.is has won in court over the Association of film [...]

By: Fallegur

Fallegur — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:21:53 +0000

The MPAA (SMAIS) lost the case this week and they were forced to pay Svavar half a million.

Hopefully Icelanders get two major torrent sites.

By: HÃ¶ssi !

HÃ¶ssi ! — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:04:54 +0000

hey guys, im from iceland and after http://www.torrrent.is was closed we now have 4 new torrent sites!lol….

BTW thanks for supporting iceland : oneplusone and prodigydancer :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:37:17 +0000

I’ve read Mr SteingrÃmsson was found dead a couple of hours ago. Apparently he had been killed by 300000 little needle stitches. The funeral will be after an autopsy in 2 days. No hedgehog jokes please. The better one wins.

By: booradley

booradley — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:45:00 +0000

proclaimed shit dick

By: oneplusone

oneplusone — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:30:29 +0000

Does Iceland have entrapment laws?
Re: “Interestingly, SteingrÃmsson was a member of the BitTorrent site himself, and shared copyrighted material on the tracker as part of his investigation.”

By: oneplusone

oneplusone — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:28:38 +0000

Let’s all go to Iceland and storm the courts! We’re with you Iceland! Bastard Antis.

By: prodigydancer

prodigydancer — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:41:32 +0000

(First, to all those who promote “who cares?” attitude: STFU and GTFO, please. You can also shoot yourself in the head in order to stop polluting this world with your presence.)

Dear Icelanders, this is my message for you: sharing is caring. Know that we, the P2P community, do care for you. You’re our fellows, our friends, our brothers in arms. Your loss is our loss, your pain is our pain.

Dark times are upon us. The enemy is cunning, merciless and powerful. It wants to take our freedom and it’ll stop for nothing. Corporations care only about money. They have no common sense, no moral values, no inhibitions. Arguing with them is useless. We must fight.

Don’t lose hope, friends, don’t surrender. It’s hundreds of millions of us around the world, joined by our righteous cause. We must show them that we have no fear. Share more every day! Don’t vote for venal politicians! Boycott unscrupulous ISPs! Support those who are illegally accused or wrongly judged!

Let them hear our voice: we will fight and will win!

By: Cabb

Cabb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:19:31 +0000

Ireland.

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By: Traum

Traum — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:37:54 +0000

[quote comment="312631"]Do you know how small Island is? They have a population of 312 851 people.
[/quote]

So then they can sue all P2P-users and put in to the jail… no problem, only little change from Iceland to Jailland. Duh, 8=

By: ram

ram — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:41:32 +0000

[quote comment="313195"]…

But what is stranger is that the goverment looks away from the balant
breaking of compition laws by these content distributers. (Reagion code locking, digital restriction management that doesnt expire, etc)[/quote]

Governments all over the planet get a lot of pressure from the WTO. Through official channels of course. It’s called globalization. Even brave and truthful politicians cannot risk trade disadvantages or worse for their people. So, what choice do they have?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:17:52 +0000

I’ll share anyway. If necessary, I’ll bring a bag of shared CDs and DVDs next time I fly there and give them away.

By: Ano2

Ano2 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:37:39 +0000

[quote comment="313208"]
Nah, it’s Ãsland
[/quote]

Sorry, I knew that, but I don’t have the “Ã” character (which I now copy and pasted) on my keyboard. :-)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:05:53 +0000

What really makes me laugh though is the “10% of Icealands population were signed up” You do understand that its capital Reyjavik is about the size of a small English town meaning that 10% of the population was roughly <30,000 people. Funny statistic thats all.
P.s. Self-preclaimed geek!

By: Logi

Logi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:11:25 +0000

Torrent.is had been going for a good while and might have been left alone if they’d not made a crucial mistake. There was a ratio system, so unless you would seed for a while you wouldn’t get access to torrents until they’d been up for a few hours (at which point everyone would have them, so seeding was nearly pointless, so you it was hard to get back in good standing, but that’s another matter.)

However, the people behind torrent.is started taking money to improve people’s ratios. At that point it becomes a commercial enterprise and the law views it completely differently. That, at least, is the theory.

Now we’ll just have to see how it all goes. Of course, several other Icelandic-only trackers sprang up immediately when torrent.is was taken off-line, not that I’d, um, know anything about that.

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:10:07 +0000

[quote comment="312867"]“Island” is the icelandic name for Iceland.[/quote]

Nah, it’s Ãsland

By: Joli

Joli — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:00:09 +0000

It has been rumors thats claim that SnÃ¦bjÃ¶rn SteingrÃmsson used torrent.is himself before the site were shutdown bit hypocrisy if you ask me.

By: Any Mouse

Any Mouse — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:35:47 +0000

The strange thing is that these organizations (SMÃÃS, STEF, SAMTÃ“NN and more) actualy dont have written permission to represent most
artists, writers, programmers etc from them.

These organizataions had argued in that hearing that TermsOfService of torrent.is were meaningless. So the defense countered with saying, if so then the TOSes of ISPs and EULAs of software would also be meaningless. And imo copyright licenses would then also be meaningless rendering most artists, writers, etc, unable to release or publish their works.

By: [Skull]Inc.

[Skull]Inc. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:24:04 +0000

This has got to stop. New systems have to be developed in place of file sharing methods, because this long cycle of people trying to shut sites down for sharing is wrong. Freedom of information, knowledge and human growth is a must. restriction or the ‘filtering’ of selected controlled media to people by others is not what we want, because people want more choice…..if I have a friend and they don’t have a certain song or vice versa, without a doubt if i or they requested for it it should be given freely, or in exchange for a song the other doesn’t have. It’s called SHARING. what the media companies are saying is that it is ILLEGAL to share, that’s a bit wrong in itself. they need to change their systems, because the people will for them……

By: Another Anonymous Coward

Another Anonymous Coward — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:03:08 +0000

Ãsland!

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:24:43 +0000

The guys who are suing are the same guys that already had empty CD’s and DVD’s taxed and now they want to tax external hard drives too.

By: urr purR!

urr purR! — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:57:57 +0000

Before the shutdown of the only BitTorrent site in Iceland. There existed ONE BitTorrent tracker in the country.

Currently there are more than FIVE operating BitTorrent trackers in Iceland.

It only goes to show that you can not try to stop progress from happening. Only pray with SMÃÃS (MPAA) for it to go slower.

urr purR!

By: dabbiiiii

dabbiiiii — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:54:53 +0000

When torrent.is got shutdown, I think 4 other local torrent sites were opened.

1 month after torrent.is got shutdown, thevikingbay.org (Icelandic exclusive) torrent website was opened, and today , about 3 months later, has more than 24.000 users.

I think they made a huge mistake in suing him, because atleast torrent.is honored takedown claims, and removed torrents if the copyright owners asked them to, while TheVikingBay.org basicly tells them to fuck off and promotes the material for download that is asked to be taken down.

By: Torrent Much?

Torrent Much? — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:43:07 +0000

[...] on Torrent Freak, I was reading about how torrent.is was by far the most popular torrent tracker in Iceland, but [...]

By: Rycon

Rycon — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:49:53 +0000

[quote comment="313092"]It IS time to change the law!
This is stupid, they can’t say they loose money with filesharing, because there are lots of other things that may make people buy less DVDs…
And i bet that if iceland torrent went off, their dvd sells won’t grow![/quote]

Usually you see a backlash in this situation, those file sharers aren’t about to start buying DVD’s, they will get it no matter what, if anything P2P will go up and DVD sales will go down because of this, you watch.

By: zarathustra

zarathustra — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:21:45 +0000

Pirate BjÃ¶rk CDs NOW!=]

By: R2

R2 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:30 +0000

It IS time to change the law!
This is stupid, they can’t say they loose money with filesharing, because there are lots of other things that may make people buy less DVDs…
And i bet that if iceland torrent went off, their dvd sells won’t grow!

By: monkey boy

monkey boy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:48:35 +0000

Damn I was hoping to get Bjork’s whole back cataloge with that tracker and Island’s favorite TV series now in its 15th season “Let’s watch Ice melt” in HD.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:30:15 +0000

If 10% of the population do something it’s fair to assume that an even larger part think it acceptable. So it might be time to change the laws.

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By: Devil worshuper

Devil worshuper — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:23:11 +0000

To put in to perspective,Iceland is 300.000 people

By: Failing

Failing — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:05:00 +0000

Buying your country’s TLD domain requires a nice load of paperwork and ident stuff. Fail in that.

By: Sanhurst Lanier

Sanhurst Lanier — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:47:21 +0000

[quote comment="312889"]Torrent.is.dead.duh![/quote]
booooo-riiiiiinnnng.
nice try, bozo.
now go away.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:37:01 +0000

Don’t worry about the mafia, My healing tones will STOP THEM.

Just check legittorrents.info, mininova or thepiratebay and cure your diabetes and stop autism for free.

No schemes, high quality wave files.

Let these tones feel the world and end the World-wide suffering.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:25:08 +0000

Torrent.is.dead.duh!

By: Ano2

Ano2 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:40:23 +0000

“Island” is the icelandic name for Iceland.

By: JN

JN — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:19:26 +0000

I think the movie mafia is desperately trying to win a court case somewhere in the world. This way they can set some kind of precedent in order to take the fight other places “based” on the case that was won in another corner of the world….

By: el argentino tranfuga

el argentino tranfuga — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:18:51 +0000

How many users has bittorrent ?

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:59:45 +0000

Iceland ….
what can I say …..
Can you imagine the boredom?

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:30:23 +0000

The tracker only allowed Icelandic IPs to connect to their tracker.

Iceland have a population of 312851 people. A household have an average of 4 people = 78213 households

The where 26500 users.

So 1 of 3 households where using this tracker.
And the others where getting the stuff from their neighbors.

So you van put everybody in jail.

By: Norway FTW!

Norway FTW! — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:37:00 +0000

[quote comment="312644"]Island? you mean Iceland – surely?[/quote]
[quote comment="312654"]he probably confused the norwegian name for Iceland which is Island..[/quote]
[quote comment="312641"]Iceland[/quote]
Thank’s.. Sorry for the confusion.

By: Jer

Jer — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:24:32 +0000

Hey I’ve been to Iceland…seemed like a pretty bland country, but they’re just gonna open 10 more.

By: just a splash of ginseng

just a splash of ginseng — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:10:50 +0000

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WO42s0r2LNU

By: p2pvine.com

p2pvine.com — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:24:41 +0000

Iceland’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Faces Permanent Shutdown…

Torrent.is went to court this week and the site now faces a permanent shutdown and the possibility that they will have to compensate copyright owners. Since nearly 10% of Iceland’s population were members, Torrent.is was by far the most popular BitTo…

By: andyness

andyness — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:02:54 +0000

[quote comment="312644"]Island? you mean Iceland – surely?[/quote]
“Island” is the norwegian name. And yes, he ment Iceland.

By: of course;

of course; — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:54:49 +0000

why not shut it down? Its not like shutting down legal services illegally is wrong.
Its not like all of those movie-and-music fans will now be too pissed off at the jerks to pay anything near what the jerks want.
Its not like the victims [file-sharers, obviously] only aquired the media because it was reasonably priced, and faced with insane prices to enjoy it “legally” will find something else to do; you know, like reading, gaming, horseback riding, swimming, hanging out, working, going to school, playing hockey/football/basketball.

No, this brilliant action will ensure that all of those ignorant “fans” remember who the protection money is SUPPOSED to go to, and why its supposed to go to;
this brilliant action will ensure that all of those ignorant fans instantly start begging the media companies to come back to rip them off of products worth 1/20th of the actual price.

…f’king dinosaur mafIAA. They are pathetic. The death of their monopoly will be celebrated around the world. The battle with their successor will be glorious:)