Torrentspy has to make up its mind

Written by Ernesto on February 09, 2006 

Torrentspy is flirting with movie and music studios in its quest for legitimacy. The idea to provide authorized music and movies is not new, but torrentspy is the first “torrentsite” that actively searches ways to provide authorized content to their users. However, if torrentspy want to succeed, it probably has to choose a side.

Although the movie and music industry is seriously looking for ways to make their content available online, torrentspy just isn’t the best option, rather the worst. The main disadvantage that torrentspy has however, is that it also lists A LOT of unauthorized content and pron, not really the kind of content that big movie and music companies want to be associated with I think (no matter what filters they apply). On the other hand, several big and smaller companies would love to spread authorized content if they got the opportunity so torrentspy is not the only player on that market. If torentspy wants to “go legal” and distribute authorized music and movies they will probably have to say goodbye to their current visitors, and start all over.

Another “legal” goal that torrentspy has is to list game patches, mods, shareware, trialware, driver updates, etc. This shouldn’t be a problem but this is not really a revolutionary idea. There are a lot of sites that are specialized in delivering these kind of files.

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15 Responses

1 Feb 10, 2006 at 15:25 by eambo

aww i love torrentspy it was my favourite torrent site before i found torrentz… shame it has to go legal :-(

2 Feb 10, 2006 at 19:11 by benoit

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3 Feb 11, 2006 at 13:57 by Hanshi

To be honest I hate TorrentSpy. Lots of porn ads etc. and I’ve seen numerous reports of trojans being silently downloaded from the site.

4 Feb 12, 2006 at 17:59 by Smoovious

TorrentSpy gives my PG2 endless fits.

5 Feb 17, 2006 at 13:08 by Quintin

Torrentspy is the best if u need something it always there to get it

6 Feb 17, 2006 at 23:18 by filesharing

I have seen a lot of virus alerts and Trojans downloading in the background.

7 Feb 20, 2006 at 15:21 by puck

I think torrentspy is loosin against piratebay,torrentz,meganova etc etc , difficult to find a lot of stuff than on the other sites..allu need is piratebay,torrentz and filelist.org!!!

8 Feb 28, 2006 at 20:25 by badmac

torrentspy is not one of the great torrent sites and now is showing his true face!!! they have no respect for torrent users… like isohunt or torrentz

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10 Aug 15, 2006 at 05:43 by mimi

hey,i would like to download torrentspy so i can download some movies but i dont hev some sort of viza card..is there any solution to this?

11 Aug 15, 2006 at 11:30 by Ernesto

the solution is:
go to http://www.torrentspy.com/
it’s free!

12 Jan 20, 2008 at 07:29 by Cassandra

I hate torrentspy these days. They have so much fuckin porn ads. And the downloads are not any safe. Mininova is much more safer. YOURE SUCH A BItcH ToRRentSpy. :P

13 Jan 20, 2008 at 12:42 by Unknown

I hate Torrentspy and they will definately lose out on alot of visitors from today onwards.

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