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Torrentspy Disables Searching For US IPs
dr_strang writes "Torrent indexing site Torrentspy.com appears to have disabled torrent searches for IPs that originate in the United States. Instead of a results page, users are directed to this page, which states: 'Torrentspy Acts to Protect Privacy. Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website. Torrentspy's decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws."
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Seems I just can't win with searches anywhere today.
Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru?
How am I supposed to support artists if I can't steal their work? Buy CDs and movies?
That way you can never be sued
Need I remind you how, *ahem*, flexible the US legal system is?
Flexible like a rubber hose, you mean?
or... dare I say: Usenet?
So, why would you like to to run upon usenet? Do you plan to start a big flamewar about the Torrentspy blocking or anything?
something tells me you wont be desired there!.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Are US-based users going to start using china-based proxies??!?!? Did hell just freeze?
Usenet?
/. for eternity.
We do not speak of such things here. For It is heresy, and your irreverance will be dealt with swift and mercilessly.
You shall be stripped of your geek status, forced into the Windows ME support team in a non-english speaking country, and banned from
Let your brethren never forgive you, and may GOD have mercy on your UserID.
I'm offering europe based proxy access to torrentspy for US citizens for 50 cents per search. 5 cents of every search goes towards helping starving artists in the states.
The first rule of Usenet: Don't talk about Usenet. The second rule of Usenet: Don't talk about Usenet. Understand?
Most people don't participate in tasteless and foolish events like flamewars unless they need the approval of others. Yes, it happens at times but I'm sure it's never planned that way by Slashdot posters!
It take more faith to believe in evolution than it takes to believe in God
Way to post off topic, on your own topic.
That...that really takes something special.
That's like saying your boat doesn't have a port side, only a starboard side and an "extreme starboard" side. "Left" and "right" are relative terms. That's the reason we use terms normally associated with direction to denote them.
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
I'm not saying I don't masturbate. I am saying that it's none of anyone else's business if/when I do. Hey buddy, I love Ubuntu as much as the next guy (maybe more) but seriously you probably shouldn't tell people that you masturbate to it downloading.
Just then the floating disembodied head of Colonel Sanders started yelling Everything You Know Is Wrong!-Weird Al
Oh fearless leader of We Who Are Completely and Utterly Oblivious, we praise thee! You are a beacon of light.
For those who didn't see it, the parent comment contains sarcasm.
My english is sow-sow. Sowhat?
thanks blahlemon, you made my day :)