Torrent Spy

[Womble]

Hollywood awarded $110m against TorrentSpy

Operators of the once-popular TorrentSpy tracker have been ordered to pay more than $110m to Hollywood for facilitating illegal downloads of movies and television shows.

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper awarded the Motion Picture Association of America maximum damages of $30,000 per movie, for each of the 3,699 infringement charges brought against TorrentSpy. All totaled, site operator Justin Bunnell and company are obliged to pay the MPAA $110,970,000.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05...om_torrentspy/

[Callumpy]

Originally Posted by Womble

Hollywood awarded $110m against TorrentSpy

Operators of the once-popular TorrentSpy tracker have been ordered to pay more than $110m to Hollywood for facilitating illegal downloads of movies and television shows.

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper awarded the Motion Picture Association of America maximum damages of $30,000 per movie, for each of the 3,699 infringement charges brought against TorrentSpy. All totaled, site operator Justin Bunnell and company are obliged to pay the MPAA $110,970,000.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05...om_torrentspy/

Damn lot of money

[papa smurf]

time to declare themselves bankrupt and set up in kanookada

[trevortt]

The movie industry have alot of money. Maybe they should invest some of it in to why people download copyright material and maybe slow it down. They are as bad as the pirates.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by trevortt

The movie industry have alot of money. Maybe they should invest some of it in to why people download copyright material and maybe slow it down. They are as bad as the pirates.

i have to ask myself who does pay for the rubbish they call moovies these days.

[trevortt]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

i have to ask myself who does pay for the rubbish they call moovies these days.

The taxpayer? Wouldn't surprise me..after all, we do pay for everything else.