TorrentSpy Now Blocks U.S. Users From Accessing It
- August 27th, 2007
- Read 1124 times
- 3 Comments
TorrentSpy, one of the more popular public BitTorrent Web sites out there, has started blocking U.S. users. Once U.S. users search for something (I searched for “music”) or try to navigate its directory, you’re greeted with a nice little message telling you that because of an “uncertain legal climate” and “apparent tension” between US and EU privacy laws, we can’t use the search. Well that stinks.
While I appreciate Torrentspy’s efforts to protect me, it does strike me as odd that the site took the action that it did. You don’t see ThePirateBay banning anyone, do you?
Whatever. I guess this is just another version of the Suprnova bust from a few years ago. At this rate, we’ll be telling our children, “When I was your age, I was able to download music and movies within minutes. Then it just sorta… stopped.” Enjoy while you can, youngsters.
ajadoniz (Who am I?)
10 months ago
nooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous
10 months ago
The rest of the world can access the site just fine. You can thank your retarded justice system for the fact that you can’t.
Reply
norwegianterror (Who am I?)
10 months ago
suprnova is back online thanks to thepiratebay. torrentspy is just being nice because it is logging user’s data because of a court order. by doing this, it saves you from being sued by mpaa. thepiratebay doesn’t do this, because it is safe from us laws in sweden. and can’t be ordered by court to track their users, so their users have nothing to fear.