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MPAA hired hacker to 'spy' on The Pirate Bay

by Andre Yoskowitz According to new court documents, it appears that the MPAA hired a hacker to reveal the identities of the administrators of the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, the same hacker who was found to be 'spying' on the torrent site TorrentSpy last year. Robert Anderson, the "hacker" and the center of the new scandal was paid by the MPAA in 2006 to steal e-mails and trade secrets from TorrentSpy. Anderson later admitted to this but it was unknown that he was also asked to spy on The Pirate Bay. The now public court documents reveal a conversation between Anderson and the MPAA. "We can provide the names, address, and phone (numbers) of the owners of Torrentspy.com and Thepiratebay.org -- along with evidence, including correspondence between the two companies."

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).