

Today all big torrent sites are pressured somehow.

It’s however very sad to see that the pressure put on one single peer has been so hard that one of the main players in the torrent scene has to shut down his site. New sites will emerge, the other torrent sites will get a small boost in traffic. It does not change things for the other torrent sites more than usual. "Today, sadly, Justin decided to shut down TorrentSpy.

Here is what Brokep (Administrator of The Pirate Bay) had to say about the closure: So is this a major blow to the bittorrent community? Although TorrentSpy will be missed, it will not be the end of the world. The site has been in a prolonged court battle with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which resulted in the site blocking access to US visitors as well as deleting all cached torrent files from their server. Although the site merely indexed torrents and did not operate a tracker, it was popular among beginners to the bittorrent world. TorrentSpy, one of the most visited bittorrent search engines on the Internet, has permanently shut down its operations since 24th of March, 2008.
