The MPAA Hired A Hacker To Break Into TorrentSpy

This is a new low

A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses the Motion Picture Association of America of hiring a hacker to steal information from a company that the MPAA has accused of helping copyright violators. -Cnet

Torrent Spy is just a search engine (like Google), but instead of searching for everything it is more specific and only searches for .torrent files. Torrent Spy indexes files that point to content that may or may not be copyrighted, they do not host any copyrighted materials; they are being sued for linking.


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