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.

By: Universe_JDJ’s Blog » Icelands Largest BitTorrent Tracker Faces Permanent Shutdown

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:13:12 +0000

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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