I finally got a chance to delve into BitTorrent search engine sites that are all the rage these days.
I'd just set up my new black gospel music and lyrics .com, and settled in my mind once and for all, "What is torrent?"
Turns out I'd already been linking to some of the torrent sites, so I unlinked to the ones that had the racy ads on them. Hope I got all of them.
And I'm glad I did, considering all this stuff TorrentSpy is going thru with illegal actions:
MPAA Not Done With TorrentSpy Yet
TorrentFreak -4 hours ago
Over the past months the TorrentSpy crew has made several drastic changes to their website. They have stopped hosting .torrent files, and even banned US ...
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Over the past months the TorrentSpy crew has made several drastic changes to their website. They have stopped hosting .torrent files, and even banned US ...
TorrentSpy In More Legal Hot Water Wired Blogs - By Scott Gilbertson October 11, 2007 | 9:00:19 AMCategories: P2P TorrentSpy, which recently started blocking US users, has apparently failed to appease the ... |
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By Greg Sandoval – October 11, 2007, 4:00 AM PDT To avoid having to turn over user information to the motion picture industry, BitTorrent indexing service ...
At least not all torrent stuff is illegal, and some places are getting hip and happily leaking TV shows themselves to the net.
But for the most part, torrent-land is an ever-changing landscape that I hope the movie studios and TV execs get more used to, so more legal torrent stuff can be made available to satisfy the monthly masses searching for these terms fervently:
| Overture Suggestions | Monthly Search Volume |
| torrent | 792,288 |
| bit torrent | 233,671 |
| bit torrent | 233,671 |
| spy torrent | 182,077 |
| search torrent | 134,551 |
| torrent search | 134,551 |
| site torrent | 92,278 |
| download torrent | 84,445 |
| movie torrent | 43,845 |
| bit download torrent | 41,640 |
| bit download torrent | 41,640 |
| bit site torrent | 29,414 |
| torrent search engine | 24,227 |
| torrent search site | 16,671 |
| bit search torrent | 8,449 |
| bit torrent search | 8,449 |
| free torrent search site | 7,007 |
| ext search terms torrent | 6,990 |
| bit engine search torrent | 6,654 |
| bit torrent search engine | 6,654 |
| bit download free torrent | 6,426 |
| bit client torrent | 4,302 |
| bit free site torrent | 3,875 |
| bit movie torrent | 3,584 |
| bit free torrent | 3,252 |
| torrent file search | 3,192 |
| bit file torrent | 2,800 |
| bit search site torrent | 2,615 |
| bit torrent search site | 2,615 |
| bit site top torrent | 2,566 |
| best torrent search engine | 2,415 |
| bit music torrent | 2,293 |
| bit download site torrent | 2,244 |
| bit program torrent | 2,097 |
| bit software torrent | 1,883 |
| bit downloader torrent | 1,516 |
| bit spy torrent | 1,341 |
| bit download movie torrent | 1,302 |
| bit site torrent web | 1,285 |
| bit download free movie torrent | 991 |
| bit download free site torrent | 938 |
Comments
They make these great hits, time after time, like prison break, heroes, CSI, etcetera. All superb series, but unfortunately unless you don't live in the states you have to wait a damn 6 months or heck even a year or longer in some cases before you get the chance to see it on television.
The fact that it's so popular on torrent sites is something they should be flattered with, apparently there's such a big demand for it even abroad that people take the time to actively walk to their computers and download it.
If they want that to stop they have 2 options:
Make shitty television shows no-1 likes to watch - Personally I think this won't happen though.
Release the episodes in as many countries as possible on the same day, or at least within the same week. Don't go ask your viewers to wait an entire year before they can finally see the latest episode on television.
With movies and music it's a lot of whining if you ask me, a german study last year has shown that there hasn't been an actual decrease on the amount of sales since 10 years ago or so. The fact that torrent sites exist don't mean people stop buying, and those who download 50 movies a month do you really think they'd buy them if the torrent sites weren't there? Of course not, they'd still just buy that one movie every couple of months or so changing absolutely nothing just for the fact of those movies costing quite some bucks.
With more and more music on demand showing up in legal forms already though and video on demand starting to turn up already as well I don't see why the RIAA and MPAA keep making such big deals out of it all, if the time and effort they're sticking in stuff like torrentspy and piratebay would simply be used in helping the legal alternatives be set up then soon the torrent trackers wouldn't even be needing to host those files anymore and people can just stream it on stuff like Joost, Last.fm and the various other available services.
Sites which complain about being hassled are a bit like a 'working girl' complaining about not being treated like lady. If the cap fits, wear it!