Torrentspy Acts to Protect Privacy Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website.Torrentspy's decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws.

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great news, lately so many pages are us-only, nice to see change.

can u just use different torrent search site? you could write script that makes that site look like torrentspy :P

but if you really want to do it, i think php is the best tool for this job.

I'm not sure why it's "great news"...

But, sure, there are many other sites that allow you to search for torrents. I like TorrentPond as they allow you to search through many of the popular torrent sites. It looks like they have removed TS from their search options because of this block as well. I think the real issue at hand though is the fact that TS was forced into this position by the legal efforts of the MPAA by asking them to hand over search data on their users. If they can do this to one search engine, they can do this to others (and have in the past), and we should work to stop it now.

However, even though there are other search engines, I think it would be good to create such a script. For one, it would be a benefit to all TS users - both US and other places in the world, so as any data hijacked by the MPAA or other organizations would be filled bogus entries, which would prevent users from being targeted and thwarting their efforts to sue people and shut down search sites. Secondly, some people might simply prefer TS over other searches and so a script as I mentioned would allow them to continue using the site. I would love to write it myself, but unfortunately, I do not know how.

As far as the PHP suggestion you mentioned, I assume you mean something installed on a remote server? That would probably take up quite a bit of bandwidth if it was queried frequently and cause the same problem for the people hosting the file, which might result in requests for their server log files. If a script was written to rotate proxies, such as this ImageShack Proxification script (just the first example I found when searching for "proxy") it would probably be more successful.

FoxyProxy extension has a whitelist/blacklist feature that will allow you to use proxy for desired sites.

Alright, but that just means you have to leave a program running all the time like TOR or JAP to connect to a proxy when you just want to look up through one site. That, plus many TOR nodes are within the US, so you might have to reload multiple times before you get a working end route that's outside the US.

I think an on demand web proxy would be much simpler. Does anyone have a link to an easy guide about writing GM scripts or anything?

// ==UserScript==
// @name Redirect
// @include http://www.torrentspy.com/*
// @include http://torrentspy.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

window.location = "http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/" + window.location;

// ==UserScript==
// @name Anonymouse_remove_ad
// @include http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/*
// ==/UserScript==

document.body.removeChild (document.getElementById ("mouselayer"));

Thanks Mikado. It does functionally work, however, the little Anonymouse JS ad window still shows up. I was able to get rid of it in Adblock Plus by adding the element hiding rule:

anonymouse.org#DIV(id=mouselayer)