TorrentSpy bans US visitors
TorrentSpy has formulated a novel way to get around the federal court ruling that ordered it to track users’ usage of the site: it simply banned all US usage of the search features. Hmmm. This was decided as the best course of action to ‘protect user privacy’.
A notice on the website stated:
Torrentspy.com, an International search engine that provides links to torrent files, has decided to stop accepting visitors from the United States. … Torrentspy.com has a strong privacy policy protecting site users against the linking of personal identifying information to searches absent user consent.
Reportedly more than 15% of visitors to the site, mainly filesharers looking for movie and music torrents for download with a software client like Ares, are based in the US. Residents are far from happy with the move which, as one comment put it, feels like Torrentspy has turned its back on its user base.
But it’s not entirely the fault of TorrentSpy, we say. Instead it’s the US courts and the RIAA’s crusade of righteousness that should be blame: without these there would not need to be any ban. It’s easy to understand TorrentSpy’s position and at the end of the day it is protecting its own interests.
Until this is resolved in the US courts – which may not be for some time – the only real option is to find somewhere else from which to source your torrents.
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Posted on 28 February 2009 by Laura in Announcements