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Hello Friends of TorrentSpy, This message is to inform you about recent efforts by the motion picture studios to shut down TorrentSpy. As you may know, in February 2006 the major movie studios and their Washington lobby, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), filed a lawsuit against TorrentSpy and other search engines.
We guess that hiring hackers and turning a blind eye to identity theft is not enough for the movie studios and the MPAA. Now they want to know who you are, what you search for, and what you download. In short, it is the view of the movie studios that websites should not allow anonymous use and your activity on the Internet - anywhere - is their business.
The really scary thing is that if we lose this court battle, the movie studios will be able to go after any search engine or website and force them to collect data about YOU. It is not an exaggeration to say that losing this fight is a nail in the Internet's coffin.
We have spent the last year challenging their relentless campaign against the 1st Amendment and personal privacy laws Worldwide. We have succeeded in delaying the court order to turn on logs while we appeal it. TorrentSpy will not create logs of what you do on the site without your consent.
While we use Google Analytics for website statistics, TorrentSpy servers have never tracked your IP Address, the searches you make, or how you use the site. We are dedicated to your privacy and we are fighting for your rights!
While no-one has made any complaint against the CoRe tracker, the following is worth stating: We guess that hiring hackers and turning a blind eye to identity theft is not enough for the movie studios and the MPAA. Now they want to know who you are, what you search for, and what you download. In short, it is the view of the movie studios that websites should not allow anonymous use and your activity on the Internet - anywhere - is their business.
The really scary thing is that if we lose this court battle, the movie studios will be able to go after any search engine or website and force them to collect data about YOU. It is not an exaggeration to say that losing this fight is a nail in the Internet's coffin.
We have spent the last year challenging their relentless campaign against the 1st Amendment and personal privacy laws Worldwide. We have succeeded in delaying the court order to turn on logs while we appeal it. TorrentSpy will not create logs of what you do on the site without your consent.
While we use Google Analytics for website statistics, TorrentSpy servers have never tracked your IP Address, the searches you make, or how you use the site. We are dedicated to your privacy and we are fighting for your rights!
1) CoRe strongly encourages the use of proxies to access this site. http://pr0xy.com has a very comprehensive list of free proxies, which is worth checking out. A "Whois" search on the registered owner of a proxy would be advisable before using it, or else checking the history of the management team for software such as Anonymiser, as this can be easier than remembering to go through a proxy.
2) Use of a "disposable" (e.g. Yahoo) email address when creating your account is also recommended when signing up as a member of any site.
3) The use of the Azureus BitTorrent client is strongly encouraged. In addition to supporting encrypted connections, the Azureus "safepeer" plugin automatically blocks many ranges of IP addresses that you would not want to share files with! In addition, Azureus supports totally anonymous peer-to-peer filesharing using either The Onion Router or I2P.
Like Torrentspy - CoRe is committed to maintaining the highest levels of security and privacy at all times.
It is very basic common sense: if a conspiracy site specifically prohibits proxies to access it, & forbids the use of anonymous P2P connections for file downloads, this can only achieve one thing,
The security of your data is very much at risk - the bad guys can and will use proxies that are not blocked, while your data is left wide open.
This is why CoRe is opposed to unnecessary data logging, & I specifically recommend consideration of using a proxy and anonymous P2P. When your data isn't there in the first place, it cannot fall into the wrong hands.