IDG News Service, March 27, 2008
By Elizabeth Montalbano

Expensive legal battles have caused TorrentSpy, the search engine for the BitTorrent file-sharing service, to shut down.

A note on the home page of TorrentSpy's Web site said it is shutting down "not due to any court order or agreement," but because of a team decision.

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