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TorrentSpy Closed in the US; so Bypass the US

Seems the good people at TorrentSpy have decided to stop letting US users search the TorrentSpy site due to uncertainty around US privacy laws. While I can certainly understand TorrentSpy’s position, I don’t like the fact that our country continues to try to apply laws which are out-dated. Like many out there when I’m told I can’t have something; it makes me want it more.tor-onion.png

So I say, if you can’t search in the US, then just move to another country, virtually. Visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org) and download their TOR Onion router. If you follow their instructions the TOR Onion will route your internet connection through several random servers in various countries, thereby giving websites like TorrentSpy the appearance that you are in another country.

It’s a simple way to bypass the system. Better yet, donate to the EFF and help them protect our freedoms online.

posted in: opinion, outside the box, software, utilities

This post was published on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 9:56 pm

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Bruce

August 31, 2007 at 12:39 am

George, great post. I too just saw that TorrentSpy had stopped allowing searches/views from the U.S. Your solution is clever.

Along a similar line it’s fitting that the same week TorrentSpy gets strict on U.S. search Suprnova.org has been resurrected from the dead.

And something else that’s bugging me regarding internet freedom is the apparent restrictions being slowly placed on P2P sharing from the big telco/cable companies. Comcast has been under a lot of fire for this recently. And I’m not talking illegal P2P sharing either, just plain torrent traffic in general seems to be taking a hit. Which is odd because nearly any protocal (FTP, Torrent, etc.) can be used for illegal things, but that doesn’t mean they always are.

It’s like taking away roads just because people go over the speed limit sometimes, I just don’t agree with it.

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Xeno

April 15, 2008 at 6:09 am

FYI - I think that this is an old detail, as torrentspy’s latest message instructs their closing on March 24th, worlwide. So any detour you attempt to take will only fail as they closed the domain down.

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George

April 16, 2008 at 6:08 am

Yep, that is why the posting is almost a year old.

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torrent spy closed

April 17, 2008 at 4:28 pm

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