Thisaintnews.com, a social bookmark site with a pirate theme, has been up and running for over a year now. In that year, the Digg-like site with the pirate ship theme (temporarily replaced by a Christmas look) has grown slowly but surely, with a strong community and fresh news posted daily.

The difference between this site and others is the owners willingness to post links to torrents. This is no sirprise, because the community is what is left over of the old Torrentspy commenters, a rough bunch who pull very few punches when telling you that your content sucks. The connection to piracy is strong and well-pronounced on every part of the site.

When FreakBits asked the owner, a British fellow who goes only by the name ‘Mrbig4545″, for a quote on the rampant piracy going on, he said this: “Just make something up about freedom. Then post a pic of Mel Gibson from South Park rubbing sh*t on the walls.”

As far as spam goes, the site is surprisingly free of such things. Articles posted there are not exclusive to piracy, but more of a mixture of strange news and funny pictures. More than one user, however, regularly post links to uploaded torrents on a daily basis.

For those of us who used to frequent the old Torrentspy news section, TAN is like that reborn. Same guys shooting the breeze, different look. It seems the old community from Torrentspy never died, just loaded on a ship and headed to a different location.

Article from: FreakBits