TorrentSpy fined $100 million to pay Hollywood studios
In a major win for Hollywood studios, a California federal judge has ordered TorrentSpy to pay some $110 million in damages for infringing the copyright of thousands of films and TV shows through its BitTorrent search engine. The judge ordered TorrentSpy to pay $30,000 per copyright infringement–for 3,699 films and shows. That works out to be worth $110,970,000.
In 2006 TorrentSpy was more popular than any other BitTorrent site, but this changed quickly in August 2007, when a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to log all user data. The judge ruled that TorrentSpy had to monitor its users in order to create detailed logs of their activities, and hand these over to the MPAA.
On March 24, 2008 facing further fines for not cooperating with the court TorrentSpy shut itself down. Several days after the shut down of TorrentSpy, former employee Jason Hughes introduced his own bittorrent site movieTorrents.
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June 3rd, 2008 at 3:01 am
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