Torrentz Shuts Down Its Search Engine
Torrentz, one of the most popular torrent search engines in the world, has ended its service for seemingly no reason. Could the company be facing legal issues, or has it just decided to get out while it can?
If you go to Torrentz.eu, the website still looks essentially the same as it always has, except for one line of text in the middle of the page. It describes the website in the past tense, implying that the website has ended its search engine services. This is the only page on Torrentz that you can still view.
If you attempt perform a search or navigate to any other page on the site, the page will just refresh itself, and the text on the page will update to say, “Torrentz will always love you. Farewell.” Clearly, the site is no longer providing its search engine service.
Although torrents are often used to legally distribute files, the most notable use of torrents has been to illegally share content. Websites involved with illegal torrents have been under attack for years by government agencies and businesses in an attempt to shut the torrents down.
It does not appear that Torrentz is facing legal action at this time, so it isn’t completely clear why the site ended its service. Recently, another major torrenting site, Kickasstorrents, was shut down, and the site’s owner is facing serious legal charges. It is possible that this concerned Torrentz’s owners enough that they preemptively shut down the site before legal charges were brought against them.
Interestingly, the company appears to have retained ownership of its domain, though. It is possible the site could be investigating other uses for the domain in order to remain in business. Although most torrents on the net are illegal, there are a large number of legal torrents used by software and content developers as a more economical method of distributing files. Perhaps the site will one day resume its service, but with search results limited to legal torrents only.
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Jeff Fx These guys need to figure out how to monetize torrent sites on TOR. When the government goes after hidden services, they're likely to focus on drugs, weapons, and child porn rather than regular file sharing.Reply -
eklipz330 torrentz didnt host anything thouigh... ive recently had to stop because of a letter sent from my provider. i hate the new TWC.Reply -
kenjitamura It's just not needed anymore because even pirates aren't willing to download the crappy movies that come out of Hollywood now.Reply -
Jeff Fx Reply18391025 said:torrentz didnt host anything thouigh... ive recently had to stop because of a letter sent from my provider. i hate the new TWC.
Get a VPN and/or a Seedbox, so TWC can't spy on you. -
ohim less piracy should in theory result in less viruses spread around PCs. Also with more people actually buying stuff in theory prices should go down but i really doubt this one :)Reply -
Jeff Fx Reply18391352 said:less piracy should in theory result in less viruses spread around PCs. Also with more people actually buying stuff in theory prices should go down but i really doubt this one :)
Torrent sites getting shut down doesn't reduce copyright infringement, and software copyright infringement is a tiny part of the whole. Most people are trading TV and movies, and running an exe from an unreliable source is very foolish.
Prices aren't generally impacted by copyright infringement at all. Businesses charge as much as they think they can get away with. If anything if the torrent sites all disappeared along with the other sources that shall not be named, prices would go up because the competition would be gone.
The way to reduce infringement is to lower prices to the point where people think they're reasonable, but it may be too late now that we've trained a generation to torrent media. -
alidan Reply18391568 said:18391352 said:less piracy should in theory result in less viruses spread around PCs. Also with more people actually buying stuff in theory prices should go down but i really doubt this one :)
Torrent sites getting shut down doesn't reduce copyright infringement, and software copyright infringement is a tiny part of the whole. Most people are trading TV and movies, and running an exe from an unreliable source is very foolish.
Prices aren't generally impacted by copyright infringement at all. Businesses charge as much as they think they can get away with. If anything if the torrent sites all disappeared along with the other sources that shall not be named, prices would go up because the competition would be gone.
The way to reduce infringement is to lower prices to the point where people think they're reasonable, but it may be too late now that we've trained a generation to torrent media.
I just bought diehard blu ray boxset because I like the movies.
Guess what doesnt play on my computer after paying for the software to play the damn thing
Guess who isnt getting my money a second time.