What Happened to the Old Torrentspy Community?
We have all heard of Digg, Reddit, and Twitter. Recently, however, Freakbits has discovered a different type of social news website. And this one is ran by pirates for pirates.
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.
Dude that sight totally rox!
I’M FAMOUS!!!!! :D
Don’t be fooled, Mrbig jus wants ya innanets.
Thats some good shit right there, Thanks to freakbits for getting the word out.
Freakbits just wants some anal love from Nova. Manchester United sucks my balls.
well the mafiaa failed but did get to get the site offline. Too bad most (if not all of their torrents) got actually downloaded (along with the files themselves) and are now on 1gb lines. I don’t mean 1gb total either, I mean 1 gb per file you want. http://www.Mafiaa.org fail. Oh yeah, the whole site almost is online and still serving files. It is under a new url and as far as I am aware, just the index before it was pulled is available. New additions to the site are not made but it is intact as for when it got shut down.
Fuck you guys. TAN is fucking going down. As the new head of Shoutwire I am starting a whole new movement. Me Nod and Bulshoy will fucking end you. END YOU I say.
P.s. Also HaloTwisters domination of the anal lube supply will stop also.
Tin’d
Needs MORE balloons
I LOVE BALLOONS!
This Aint News rocks. Although i’m a shoutwire man, I can’t help but lurk the shit out of TAN. The place is a new ship for the old school SW/Torrentspy crew that got bored with spam and dodgy operators.
The edmonton crew is fucking hilarious. Nova can flame the shit out of flameing shit and as long as Big is at the helm, i think TAN will have a good long life.
Whats left of the former TorrentSpy Forums and Guides is here: http://forums.mystery-axiom.com/index.php Its not very active but most members have been around since the TS days. If you ever visited the forums during those days you will recognize a lot of names. You’re welcome to come by.