In an effort to help and inform file sharers of the possible criminal charges that could be brought up against them, TorrentSpy is now actively removing pre-release material from the index of their website.
Every torrent details page at the site is now displaying the following message:
Warning to File Sharers
File sharing of music, entertainment and software files that have not yet been released for commercial distribution could be treated as a criminal violation, under the Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005.
TorrentSpy would like your help in removing links to such material from our file index.
At the end of the message, there is a link to this page which has more information.
The ART Act effectively makes you a criminal in the United States if you download any pre-release material, such as the recent Star Wars Episode III movie, or the new Coldplay album, X & Y.
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They took down the gta san andreas torrent too!
While this causes some inconvenience to some people, or some people see it as bowing to "the man," I think it's a smart move on their part. I know I'm not risking a felony for a lack of patience.
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.” - Florence Nightingale
I can see this from a legal perspective, but also from the artist perspective (at least as far as work in progress releases) - let the artists finish their stuff up first (like that leaked U2 album). I'd say we owe them that at least.
hmm I really couldnt care less. I think its perfectly ok todo
Yeah, they took coldplay out, i mentioned it earlier that it was filtered.. I just like to know about the music i buy, if i like something, i may purchase it when its releases on tuesday. Thats the only time an album is some what affordable at wal-mart. Same with new dvd movies. But i stoped all that since i got my dvd burner, and the new copy protection made my dvd player useless. So their loss.
I'll be extremely afraid to go the post office to pick up my mail from a PO Box.
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I live in the US and the new GTA game's been released here and I know that it wont be released in Europe 'til three days from now, so if I download it, Im I still at risk?
coldplay is on oink... i downloaded it, I hope that no fed. seeds were on it. its not public and oink is pretty safe....
IF anything, you will get a cease and desist letter for just sharing one file or torrent. If you ever did, give it to the admins, and they can boot all the RIAA that may have breached the site.
If you guys are scared just use Freenet/Frost or Tor and start making anonymous trackers and stuff...Originally Posted by mcovey
Although Tor can't really handle p2p yet.
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
I don't think it's taken down. For example if you search for "GTA" or "San Andreas" you won't get results. But just search for "auto"
Will this stop the MPAA from shuting down the site?
Doubt it.
Is freenet viable for running a tracker?
Only asking 'cuz it seems some trackers use PHP.
Does freenet support ASP/PHP/etc or just HTML?
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