you just cannot stop it. :)

To users: don’t stop from downloading. What can they do? Umm send the special forces over…and take all the millions to prison? Really, is it just millions?

And you won’t have to suffer any more!

As he is very pro P2P candidate.

Have you noticed their sudden popups, and sex/porn ads? And this is without using a proxy. This is their actual site.

Aside from that, the forum they were sharing no longer is connected to them. They seem to be loosing everything.

I say they move servers to a different country, and continue on as usual. Nothing can happen out of the ordinary if they are hosting in a different country, right?

-mason
mrnailbunny[@]hotmail.com

This comment:

“The comments are offline while we make needed changes. Hang in there, we’re hoping to be back soon.”

has been there for a very long time now. It doesn’t seem like the comments are coming back.

The fact that there were so many comments about the quality of the various torrents is what I think was the best thing about torrentspy.

if they ever bring back that function, i’ll start checking in every day as before

do you really think that many people just quit downloading.. I think not.

people will find the easiest way to get the stuff they want .. closing one site only makes other sites bigger.

There’s been quite a debate about that, but Alexa traffic rank is pretty accurate to compare the larger BitTorrent sites. I actually confirmed the Alexa data with real stats (from several BitTorrent sites) a while ago and there was almost a perfect correlation. Accuracy goes down if the sites have a different target audience or a smaller audience.[/quote]

There’s nothing to debate really. Alexa traffic data collection only really works if their spyware cookies and registry entries remain on the computer accessing the sites it is tracking (or they get the site stats directly from a site admin).

Ergo: FireFox users that happened to run SpyBot (as an example), are no longer openly tracked by Alexa, but can still be tracked via site stats submitted by admins. Linux users? Not tracked at all apparently. The most common makeup of any site statistics by Alexa rely on the tie-in to Windows and Internet Explorer.

It’s quite common knowledge by now that Alexa has a deal with Microsoft to install the cookie in IE by default and the registry entries are in a default installation of Windows.

One of the first things I get rid of on any new Windows installation.

I do kid, naturally, but isn’t this the tactic being used against them? Why not make it work for them?

This activity will not deter or stop those who are determined enough to do what they want, it will just force them into becoming more skilled at what they do.

You will kill ten of our men, and we will kill one of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
~ Ho Chi Minh

There’s been quite a debate about that, but Alexa traffic rank is pretty accurate to compare the larger BitTorrent sites. I actually confirmed the Alexa data with real stats (from several BitTorrent sites) a while ago and there was almost a perfect correlation. Accuracy goes down if the sites have a different target audience or a smaller audience.

you can do the graph yourself at alexa.com

simply look up demonoid.com then add the other trackers into the graph for comparison

i did that and it is obvious why Ernesto ommitted demonoid from the graph above, demonoid have their own problems and it is clearly shown in their chart

Thanks for the info. Well, atm (with suprnova returning) the *nova namespace is pretty packed.

They Changed their name because they were tired of the “nova”.

it doesnt make sense until you remember torrentspy this summer suspended its submit torrent function, take a look again at the graph and see if you can judge the exact week torrentspy stopped accepting uploads[/quote]

Interesting alternative analysis. Cheers.