RIP TorrentSpy
March 28, 2008 by Mike Abundo
Filed under Computers
If you’ve got to go, go out with a powerful political statement.
Friends of TorrentSpy,
We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the Torrentspy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.
The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy of search requests, and links to torrent files in search results is simply too hostile. We spent the last two years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, defending the rights of our users and ourselves.
Ultimately the Court demanded actions that in our view were inconsistent with our privacy policy, traditional court rules, and International law; therefore, we now feel compelled to provide the ultimate method of privacy protection for our users – permanent shutdown.
It was a wild ride,
The TorrentSpy Team
TorrentSpy is actually on my Firefox search menu; they connected me with hours of education and entertainment. You will recall that TorrentSpy chose to lose its US traffic rather than break its own privacy policy. In the digital world, the “pirates” have more honor than the Navy.
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