Comments on: TorrentSpy may cut off access to US visitors

By: TronixA

TronixA — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Guess it’s time to use newsgroups and/or switch to a site that won’t cave into demands such as the Pirate Bay. They would probably give the judge the middle finger.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Or just stay off public tracker sites which is advice I highly recommend.

By: CCSDUDE

CCSDUDE — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@ commenter #! – torrentspy isn’t caving if they cut off access

torrentspy is saying fine if you want us to be big bro we’ll take our biz elsewhere

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Hopefully other international businesses start following suit and cutting off access to the United States this would isolate the United states allowing other countries to mold the internet in a much more suitable way.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@MR
Exactly we trip out when countries like Thailand ask for content to be removed from US based sites like YouTube but then do it ourselves with sites based abroad. Its hypocritical to say the least.

By: Signa

Signa — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

ive havnt used TS for a while now so im glad that if things go bad in this bullshit ruling it wont hurt me much

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

This will go to the supreme court. If it was JUST filesharing involved then it would be a different matter but it WILL affect other legal business practices as well on the net. So I do not believe that this will not go unchallanged.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I hope you’re right.

By: deleted

deleted — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The problem with defying the US in this case is that they will arrest you if you ever come to the US or any of it’s possessions. They already did this with the CEO of a payment processor who’s company was accepting payments from the US for online gambling. He is a UK resident who was nabbed in the US while on a business trip. See also recent cases where the US has extradited individuals for hacking and copyright violations from other countries such as Australia.

One solution to this problem is for other _countries_ to give the US the middle finger in response to requests for extradition. I fear we may have to wait quite a while for this to happen as only a handful of countries in the world today seem to have a backbone. Russia comes to mind as one who is more than willing to give the USA the middle finger though that didn’t help Dimitri Skylarov a few years back. Iceland is another (gave a new home to Bobby Fischer after the US tried to extradite him from Japan for playing chess in a country the US had sanctions against at the time).

By: du2vye

du2vye — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Cutting the U.S. loose would make an impact and that’s what’s needed to raise the eyebrows of congress that half of what they may do in their own homes is considered illegal or is the result of another country. The fact is our economy isn’t worth being tied into as much anymore either. There’s a lot of things that we’ve had the luxury of taking for granted that we could loose access to.

Btw – there is software designed for countries that restrict free speech on the internet. It’s ironic but it works just as well in the U.S. for accessing content that’s restricted here from overseas.