TorrentSpy has been serving the BitTorrent community for a long while, and has swelled to over 100,000 torrents and over a million concurrent downloaders. (No numbers on how many of those are MPAA etc. spies)
In the wake of the EliteTorrents disaster, TorrentSpy has apparently been removing links from its search results. Some report that this has been happening for some time, some claim it’s a new practice. Either way, it follows in line with their DMCA notice.
Zeropaid News played around with the TorrentSpy search for a while, and came to the conclusion that if they are blocking results in compliance with the DMCA, they are doing a “great” job of it. The actual torrents aren’t gone, or even removed from the search database. They just filter certain queries. For example, a search for “star wars” or “revenge of the sith” returns the DMCA notice, while searches for “sith” are full of results.
We have found evidence of many other “blocked” results as well. Searches for Adobe, Microsoft, and Family Guy are blocked too, but searches for Photoshop, Windows, and Family are full of results.
We are not posting this to get TorrentSpy in trouble, nor do we believe they will get in trouble. They do not host any .torrents themselves, they are simply a search service. Much like Google. Our advice to all torrent sites is to simply host beyond the grasp of the MPAA, RIAA, and their lobbyist counterparts. Then you can laugh at their legal threats.
Via P2P Weblog, Slyck
