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MPAA Wins $100 Million Judgement Against TorrentSpy

By soulxtc

Called a "significant victory" by the MPAA, but for users it was merely a brief inconvenience as they migrated to one of the tens of thousands of other BitTorrent tracker sites there are to choose from. It was back in June of last year that a federal court ordered TorrentSpy to begin tracking visitors to the site. The BitTorrent tracker site opted to instead simply cut off access to US visitors. It apparently wasn't enough to satisfy the Federal Judge presiding in the case, even though it then became a matter of a FOREIGN SITE, HOSTED ON FOREIGN SERVERS, OWNED BY A FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL, and ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE US. One would think that the site's operator would clearly thus be immune from any further harassment by this US-based court.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).