Torrent sites under attack
Written by Ernesto on February 24, 2006The MPAA filed lawsuits against Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub. This could have a huge impact on the BitTorrent community since Torrentspy and Isohunt are two of the most frequently visited torrent sites.
But on the other hand, Isohunt and Torrentspy are torrent search engines and DO NOT host any torrents so the MPAA may [...]
The MPAA filed lawsuits against Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub. This could have a huge impact on the BitTorrent community since Torrentspy and Isohunt are two of the most frequently visited torrent sites.
But on the other hand, Isohunt and Torrentspy are torrent search engines and DO NOT host any torrents so the MPAA may have a hard time to built a strong case.
Slyck got a chance to talk to the operators of Torrentspy and Isohunt, and they responded quite relaxed:
“Funny, they didn’t email me,” Gary from ISOHunt said. “I’m not too concerned because we deal with copyright requests everyday, some of them from studios MPAA represents.”
“Justin” from TorrentSpy echoed Gary’s skepticism. “I guess I will learn more when I see what they have filed exactly. I’m not sure why they are suing when we comply with DMCA requests but I guess we will learn more down the road.”
Let’s wait and see, here’s a copy of the press release. Besides the 5 torrent sites ed2k-it.com (Edonkey), nzb-zone.com, binnews.com and dvdrs.net (newsgroups) are also targeted.
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Thanks mpaa i was always thinking about news groups now i know the best ones ha ha :-)
^ Seriously, I just found a couple more torrent sites thanks to this, lol.
Ebay is the best way to get around stuff any way buy and resell
who gives a fuck. those sites are the worst going. invite only sites are where it’s at any ways :P
Invite sites? got any that i might get invited to =D
Leave them alone u stupid MPAA!
they did nothing wrong.
i wonder why they didn’t target the pirate bay? haha it’s cause they can’t, long like the bay!!!
the internet is boundless! MPAA is juz playing with fire… The more work they do, the more better the programs get! in YOUR face MPAA!
Googles a torrent search engine. Just try googling for something then space torrent.
Can’t wait to see the lawsuit against google for indexing stolen files
you’re right… :)
filetype:torrent
http://torrentfreak.com/google-filetypetorrent/
Ya’ll remember the fracas over napster right? Major victory for the assholes that was, but low and behold instead of killing p2p it started a revolution. They blame price increases on piracy, price increases drive MORE ppl to piracy. Kill a few BT sites, we all go looking elsewhere and they cant go locking up the MILLIONS of pirates around today.
Fuck em. Fucking slimy thieving capitalist punks.
WHO THE FUCK GO AND SPREAD OUT THE NEWS BOUT TORRENTSPY AND ISOHUNT? GOD DAMN FUCKING ASS HOLE… HOPE THIS SITE EILL NOT DOWN..IF YES ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…
dude its just a bunch of bureaucratic fucking tennis kids that are looking for some attention. all they do is charge someone for a bogus reason because they want to advertise their fucking company name
You guys are laughing at how idiotic the MPAA is in regards to BitTorrent. Everyone of the posts previous to this are laughable to anyone who knows anything about tracker sites (apart from the first one :P ), you guys are moron n00bs. Slyck … lol … yeah they produce some accurate reports! lol
People brag that hey have all these programs, sell them, people ask where they got, word spreads, eventually wrong people find out its really stupid.
So yea whatever…cant these fuckers just leave us alone to our downloading…
Its starting to get easier to just shoplift a cd than to download with all this bullshit. Just be a ninja and take what you want the easy way! Most Hot Topics dont even have sensors at the exits. Just muscle a cd or two at a time!
“Hi, I’m the MPAA. Can I play on your team?” Everyone in the free world: “HELL NO you can’t!!” MPAA: “Then I’ll take away stuff you like. Nya, nya, nya.”
That’s pretty much the gyst of this whole thing.
omg if mpaa win….
if mpaa win…
bittorrent will be a paid service. :D
and then everyone will be ‘happier’! yay! :D
If we all stand back for a second though downloading content that you did not pay for is stealing and as such the mpaa blah brein and all the rest are like the big fat security guards you get in hmv scary looking but dumb and easy to evade :-)
torrents are stealing, so yes the mpaa does have a right, but i only donwload stuff like SG-1 and SG-Atlantis before i go and buy the actual dvd’s - kinda try-b4u-buy.
besides, if you download everything you can get your hands on, you’ll never watch the hours of video, never listen to all the hours of music, and never play the masses of games… unless you have no life…
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