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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
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order […] and the like.” – Justice William O. Douglas
I for one am glad.
As someone that actually purchases his PC games and movies, I would like to mention that many developers are moving away from making PC games in favor of console games because the amount of piracy on PC games is over 50% (with the exception of steam games and games like WOW)
I personally don’t have a problem with pirating PC games. If the game is worth the money people will go buy it. Where developers are hurting is when they make a *edited* poor game that isn’t worth the money to begin with. I havn’t bought a *edited* poor game in a decade, mostly because I try games before buying.
Ever heard of Iron Lore? They made Titan Quest (great game) but went out of business earlier this year. Their former CEO or whatever blamed their downfall on the high amount of PC game piracy. Also I read another article from COD4’s developer being shocked and *edited*ed over how much piracy went on with that game and that is one of the best games I have played in a long time. Most people won’t buy the game even if it is great and it is killing the PC gaming industry.
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