{"id":539,"date":"2006-03-28T15:29:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/28\/torrentspy-takes-on-the-mpaa\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T15:29:13","slug":"torrentspy-takes-on-the-mpaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/28\/torrentspy-takes-on-the-mpaa\/","title":{"rendered":"TorrentSpy takes on the MPAA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it now seems that the MPAA is trying to outlaw the .torrent file format, has the MPAA gone mad, this really is pushing the limits on what they can do, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Sure I can understand them trying to stop pirating in general but this is a file extension which I must say is used in the general distribution of non illegal files by publishers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for us though we have Torrentspy which doesn&#8217;t like the idea of outlawing the ,torrent extension either and is going to battle it out in court against the MPAA!\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MPAA owners Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney are in essence trying to outlaw the dot torrent file format, says a lawyer representing TorrentSpy.com, one of the sites named in the MPAA&#8217;s panicky onslaught against file sharers in particular, and the p2p community in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p2pnet.net\/story\/8334\">p2pnet.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it now seems that the MPAA is trying to outlaw the .torrent file format, has the MPAA gone mad, this really is pushing the limits on what they can do, don&#8217;t you think? Sure I can understand them trying to stop pirating in general but this is a file extension which I must say is used in the general<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/28\/torrentspy-takes-on-the-mpaa\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TorrentSpy takes on the MPAA!&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}