TorrentSpy.com
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===TorrentSpy.com=== - The Largest BitTorrent Search Engine
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Torrentspy.com is a renowned Bit Torrent indexing site on the internet. It hosts a series of torrent files which are tracked by external sources. Not only this, it also has a forum where people can comment upon the torrents available on torrentspy.com and report whether they are fake or authentic. The site indicates about the health of each torrent through graphical means and the home page of this site also includes ShoutWire’s feeds which is a user-driven content website. The word “Health” refers to the number of seeders and leechers available for each torrent file. Seeders are the one who have a particular file and provide upload of that particular file to other leechers. Leechers are the one who download the file they need and simultaneously provide upload to other leechers. If there are enough seeders available for a particular file, then the leechers are able to download that file with a good download speed.
Till November 2006, the number of torrents indexed and submitted by its users was about 447981 and the total users were over 1 million. According to the recent survey, about 800 torrents are indexed everyday at torrentspy.com.
In November 2005 “TorrentSpy Rufus” was released by torrentspy.com which was a new version of a popular Bit Torrent client known as “Rufus”. Lots of ad wares were added in this version too. However, the lead developer of Rufus refused to authorize this release.
In May 2005, torrentspy.com was compelled to remove all the links to torrents of “Star Wars Episode 3” when it was found that a work print of the film was stolen and leaked to the internet. Similar thing happened in July 2005 when torrentspy.com had to block all the links to the torrents of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” because of the request made by the copyright holder together with DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). However after some time this limitation was removed, but a copyright holder’s right to ask for the blockage of links to a particular torrent still persists.
Also in February 2006 lawsuits were filed against torrentsoy.com by the MPAA for infringement of copyright works. In March 2006 there was a drastic change in the layout of torrentspy.com when all the categories of particular TV shows and movies were removed and were merged together under one common section named Video. The users were notified by the forum administrators that the categories have changed but the reason for such a change was not disclosed.
Torrentspy.com domain name was registered in September 2003 but before its registration there existed another object on the net named TorrentSpy related to Bit Torrent. This TorrentSpy was “open source client software” built for windows platform and its code was written in Perl in March 2003. However the code for this application was rewritten in April 2003 and then it was released officially for public use. Regular updates for this TorrentSpy application were released till January 2004 but after that the author stopped releasing any further updates because he considered that the application was “feature full”.
The sole aim of releasing the application was to provide the users with a comprehensive listing of all the attributes of the torrent files as Bit Torrent GUI interfaces at that time were still ancient. When this application was released it was the first application among other torrent applications that used “Scrape” functionality which is published by most of the Bit Torrent Trackers to highlight the active user account for every torrent. Over the years all the features presented in TorrentSpy application have been inherited by various other Torrent applications and today these feature are considered to be very important.
However, it is difficult to say whether TorrentSpy.com was aware of the fact that the name they used for their site was already in use.
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