Talk:TorrentSpy
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I've rewritten a substantial amount of the page and removed a lot of POV. This article may need to be monitored as it appears that some anonymous contributors are adding POV info to it. I'll keep working on it.
Also some info about the new partnering with Searching.com needs to be added, as well as some info about their "news" feature. splintax (talk) 08:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I've added in a section on TorrentSpy the application. I realize that the "correct" way to do it would be to split it into a disabiguation page and all that, but I don't know if the relative obscurity of the application merits that. I trust someone smarter will come along and make things right if necessary.
RickOsborne 05:31, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if someocould shed some light on the recent events. Yesterday, torrentspy.com was working and everything was free and fine, today torrentspy.com is dead, BUT there is another website that popped up called torrentspy.ORG and they want have to join to use it which includes paying for "support and technical info". My question are is the .com just down temporarily or is it down permanaetly and replaced with a pay site. Also I thought that by definition in order to be an ORG or you had to be nonb profit and nots ask for money, (though you can bed for donations). So has torrentspy decided to turn corparate to make money off the fade of keeping other companies who made the original content. Persoanlly I think that this is crap and would like to know if this is true as I feel like starting a boycott.
E.au 9 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't think any website, much less a torrent index, being down for one day is reason for concern. The .org and .com domains also appear to be owned by completely different people. I know this was a while ago, but torrentspy.com appears to work fine now, and searching for, viewing and downloading a couple of test torrents hasn't resulted in me seeing any 'pay us money or get off our site' notices. In the future, perhaps take a chill pill and just wait a while until the site in question comes back online?
[edit] Category Restructure
E.au 9 September 2006
I don't use TorrentSpy, but I would assume that the category restructure, which a number of other similar sites have seen in the past, would be in order to remove any explicit references to obviously copyrighted material that is being illegally shared. For example, having a category called 'The Simpsons' under 'TV' (I don't know if such a category ever existed on the site, although it is likely; but it's just for an example) makes it obvious that material relating to 'The Simpsons' - most likely, pirated episodes -are to be shared from within that directory, and means it's difficult for the site owners to say that they don't condone the sharing of illegal material. If the categories are vague, such as just 'Videos' where torrents for both illegal movies and television episodes are uploaded to, then they could simply say that it was intended for home videos or other non-copyrighted videos that may be freely and legally shared across the Internet. Because this is just speculation or point of view, I don't know if it should actually be added to the article or not. For the record, the paragraph mentioning this issue isn't very well written.
