Talk:TorrentSpy

message: I've rewritten a substantial amount of the page and removed a lot of POV. This article may need to be monitored as it appears that some anonymous contributors are adding POV info to it. I'll keep working on it.
Also some info about the new partnering with Searching.com needs to be added, as well as some info about their "news" feature. splintax (talk) 08:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

message: Google seems to have a total lack of information after early June regarding the site's appeal of the court ruling, etc. Has there been anything new in this fight or is the appeal currently in legal limbo? 68.146.47.196 04:07, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, Torrentspy.com lists that "no coart order" was responisble for blocking US users. and that "it was entirely their desision". 198.83.124.253 21:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Update on lawsuit

message: See this story from today. It appears that TorrentSpy tampered with evidence, among other things. I've put a  tag at the top of the article because of this. --Dreaded Walrus  t c 11:07, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really. The judge simply failed to understand the fact that RAM is, infact, volatile and could have actually been lost. Also, what I don't understand is, why the owners have to give the logs since the servers are based in Netherlands and hence the local laws apply. Why are they required to depose before an American court? Giving the logs to MPAA is a flagrant violation of privacy laws in Netherland. I fail to grasp this, could you please explain? Thanks a lot. Regards, 122.167.9.114 (talk) 14:41, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  TorrentSpy has lost the case 

message: The sudden closure of TorrentSpy worldwide is likely to send shockwaves through the Internet user community. Would it be approriate to place the "Current Event" tag on this article? 23skidoo (talk) 12:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes definitely. The closure of torrentspy is a landmark ruling at crippling the backbone of filesharing on the internet. Also, if you examine the case closely, the Judge disregarded pleas that servers were located outside US and hence the owners had to follow privacy policies in accordance with the local laws. Also, the judge failed to "understand" the fact that RAM is actually volatile and hence contents of the RAM can infact be lost to a power outage. This judgement shows the urgent need for the Internet to be governed by an independent INTERNATIONAL body and not the "big brother" govt. of the United States of America which does not value the privacy of its own citizens. I can't write very well, so would request some of the more accomplished editors to add this fact to the article. - bodhi 122.167.9.114 (talk) 14:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Current events tag appropriate?

message: Shouldn't this be split into a separate article? It is not directly related to the TorrentSpy website and should get its own article. It is similar to the case of BitTorrent (protocol) vs BitTorrent (software). I would thus suggest TorrentSpy (software) as the target article name. Andareed (talk) 02:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and did this. Andareed (talk) 23:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: TorrentSpy application

message: "The Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit in February 2006 for TorrentSpy facilitating copyright infringement as many torrents on its site were copyrighted films."
First, torrents are NOT, and can never be, "copyrighted films". A torrent is just a text file that can "point" to a copyrighted film, similar to a link in a Google search result. A big difference. The current phrase give the false impression that films were actually on their server.  Secondly, many copyrighted films are allowed by the copyright holder to be shared (creative commons for example). It need to be rephrased. Kricke (talk) 09:10, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: How about if we just drop the last part of the sentence? Then we have The Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit in February 2006 against TorrentSpy for facilitating copyright infringement.. Andareed (talk) 18:27, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I think that is better. Will you make the change? Kricke (talk) 09:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect statement 

message: Was TorrentSpy a indexing site only or did they have a bittorrent tracker?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.178.154.91 (talk) 22:20, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

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thread_title:  Blacklisted Links Found on the Main Page 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I understand that TorrentSpy now, +13 years later, has only "historic" relevance at best. I remember it used to be popular in the past.
Anyway - the article currently has "Whether the MPAA will collect the $110 million from TorrentSpy remains to be seen.". I assume this
is from 2008, so perhaps someone could update the main article? Assumingly MPAA did not gain a lot of money, so the article should
perhaps not leave it open as if $110 million were collected. On a side note, perhaps it may be useful to add, if someone knows,
what happened afterwards with the folks who kept TorrentSpy running. Did they all become inactive? We have more information on what
happened with napster than TorrentSpy. 2A02:8388:1604:F600:3AD5:47FF:FE18:CC7F (talk) 18:22, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past 2008