Judge Orders Torrentspy To Track Visitors
Popular BitTorrent search engine, Torrentspy, was ordered by Central District of California judge, Jacqueline Chooljian, to create logs of visitors’ activities while on the their site. Torrentspy has until the 12th of June to submit its appeal.
A look at Torrentspy’s privacy page shows the following:
TorrentSpy.com is committed to protecting your privacy. TorrentSpy.com does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to other companies. TorrentSpy.com will not collect any personal information about you except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information.
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by TorrentSpy.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Ira Rothken, Torrentspy’s attorney, had this to say:
“It is likely that TorrentSpy would turn off access to the U.S. before tracking its users,” Rothken said. “If this order were allowed to stand, it would mean that Web sites can be required by discovery judges to track what their users do even if their privacy policy says otherwise.”
Nothing new with the crackdown on file-sharing sites, but when one is taken down you get 3 or more to take its place. What do you guys think?
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June 10th, 2007 10:45
This is the world we live in. We’re going to this week in and week out for as long as these sites exist. This is until ALL media is online, which is going to happen sooner rather then later. Read my post on subscription based music.
June 10th, 2007 17:04
Well, I didn’t like torrentspy site much. It was so filled with porn ads and spam comments.
I prefer to use piratebay for my legal downloads
June 10th, 2007 17:19
It’s true. Torrentspy’s ads are what I don’t want my kids to see.
June 10th, 2007 23:43
Making TorrentSpy track it’s users in this way would set a horrible precedent for many things on the web.
June 10th, 2007 23:48
Yes it would. Not that I’m admitting to using the site of course
June 10th, 2007 23:54
I was reading about a new one called FireTorrent today*
They even have their own Browser*
June 10th, 2007 23:57
I spoze you could always put down false personal information….not that i’ve ever done that before.
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June 10th, 2007 23:57
I’ll have to check that out … for research purposes of course
June 11th, 2007 00:06
@Genaral_TS:
I believe you … I really do
June 11th, 2007 16:31
torrent spy? What is that?
June 11th, 2007 16:54
@katalyst:
That’s exactly what I was thinking
June 12th, 2007 13:59
has the judge ever been on he net hiself
June 12th, 2007 15:07
@shaz:
That’s a good point.
August 28th, 2007 07:21
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