Torrentz Shuts Down Torrent’Em For Copyright Infringement
Written by Ernesto on January 28, 2008Torrentz.com, the largest and fastest BitTorrent meta-search engine has shut down Torrent’Em for alleged copyright infringement. It turns out that the flash based search engine we wrote about a few days ago, was using Torrentz’ data, without permission.
Most of the time when we write about BitTorrent sites that are put out of action it’s because of alleged copyright infringement. This time is similar, but with a key difference.
Torrent’Em is not accused of infringement by the entertainment industry, but by Torrentz, a fellow meta-search engine. The site is still online at the moment, but you won’t get any results when you try to do a search.
Flippy, the admin of Torrentz noticed a lot of search requests from the same source over the past few days. He soon discovered that the requests came from Torrent’Em, who simply fetched all data they needed from his site in real-time. So, every time someone search for something on Torrent’Em, he or she actually got a reformatted search result from Torrentz, without attributing the source of the data.
Copyright infringement, nothing more, nothing less. BitTorrent sites use each others data all the time, but not like this of course, since it puts a lot of strain on the Torrentz servers. “If he asked me nicely, I would have prepared a feed for him so he could use that”, Torrentz admin Flippy told TorrentFreak, who accused Torrent’Em of copyright infringement.
Torrent’em didn’t ask anything though, and Flippy had no other option than to block all the proxies Torrent’Em is using. This pretty much takes the whole site out of business, since there are no search results to display anymore.
Carlos, the admin of Torrent’Em was not available to comment, and it is unsure whether his site will be back.
Update: Torrent’Em now links back to Torrentz who lifted the ban. And they lived happily ever after.
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Hmm, I don’t understand why he just didn’t ask in the first place? Oh well, still have the other site anyway.
Too bad for Torrentem :)
of course, torrentem use a P3 server and trying to make huge $ from torrentz search engine for free LoL
any way. good cheat :)
What is not clear in the article is whether Torrent’Em actually accused them of copyright infringement (as the intro states) or whether they just blocked their IPs (as the article states) because it was putting too much strain on their servers.
funny one..lol
lazy unimaginative tools.
[quote comment="274303"]What is not clear in the article is whether Torrent’Em actually accused them of copyright infringement (as the intro states) or whether they just blocked their IPs (as the article states) because it was putting too much strain on their servers.[/quote]
Well, Flippy called it copyright infringement ;)
Added it to the article
Ironicly.
Now ILOVETORRENTS.com is down.
Fucking torrentz and shut down them as torrentz itself uses resources from tpb,mininova and all the other torrentsites to get results then torrentz is just as bad as torrentem since they actually do the same thingy and doesnt torrentsites support piracy? i will sure never use torrentz !
Oh, the irony.
youtorrent ftw
torrentz re-directs the user to the actual site the user decided to click on.. unlike torrentem that never re-direct any traffic to torrentz..
Scrapetorrent ftw.
torrent sites crying about infringement, please die.
[quote comment="274335"]torrentz re-directs the user to the actual site the user decided to click on.. unlike torrentem that never re-direct any traffic to torrentz..[/quote]
And Torrentz doesn’t pull data from external sites for every search. Torrentz actually works together with Mininova, TPB etc.
[quote comment="274319"]Fucking torrentz and shut down them as torrentz itself uses resources from tpb,mininova and all the other torrentsites to get results then torrentz is just as bad as torrentem since they actually do the same thingy and doesnt torrentsites support piracy? i will sure never use torrentz ![/quote]
thats exactly what a meta search engline is for….and unlike torrent’em, torrentz tells you the source of the torrents
who the fuck cares if they tell you the source of the download?
its like the scene would tell who is their source and his name ffs!
and i agree with #14 please die torrentz, whining about the same thing you actually do!
[quote comment="274319"]
[...]torrentz is just as bad as torrentem since they actually do the same thingy and doesnt torrentsites support piracy? i will sure never use torrentz ![/quote]
We sure will miss you, dimbulb…
Torrentz.com is one of my go-to guys. For indexers, it’s one of the best IMO.
Read between the lines people. A looser abuses my servers, I add some humor and irony to the fact and call it copyright infringement.
Not (c)-infringement at all. Just lame by torrent’em. They deserve to get “shut down” (which probably mean their ips were just banned from using torrentz search results).
Write your articles better torrentfreak. This one was a joke.
[quote comment="274359"]Read between the lines people. A looser abuses my servers, I add some humor and irony to the fact and call it copyright infringement.[/quote]
You still is as bad as torrentem as u use tpb,mn and all the others resources to earn money to your own website that just makes me sick…
Not asking is bad…
yeah he makes money but he also has the permission from those sites and offers the end user a wider selection of torrents. I see no harm in that. Handling that much bandwidth is expensive I bet he doesn’t make that much.
[quote comment="274337"]torrent sites crying about infringement, please die.[/quote]
Hes not crying about infrigment dumbnuts
hes complaining about them using his site to power theirs without asking
And since you dint bother with reading the article here are the lines you need to read:
BitTorrent sites use each others data all the time, but not like this of course, since it puts a lot of strain on the Torrentz servers.
“If he asked me nicely, I would have prepared a feed for him so he could use that” - said the Torrentz admin Flippy
who cares if he asked or not? its still the same thing.. and i dont think torrentz has the right to use every torrentsite it indexes…
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