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MPAA Hacks Torrentspy

Torrentspy is suing the MPAA because an alleged hacker, hired by the MPAA, retrieved private information from the BitTorrent indexer.

Torrentspy decided earlier to take on the fight against the MPAA, but now they might have something that makes the guys from the MPAA look like total idiots.

The MPAA is using the “hacker” to steal confidential information from torrentspy.

“Torrentspy’s complaint includes claims that the man whom the MPAA allegedly paid $15,000 to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets has admitted his role in the plot and is cooperating with the company.”

It is a Hollywood drama, what happened here,” Ira Rothken, Torrentspy’s attorney, said in a telephone interview Wednesday evening.

how sad… we’ll keep you up-to-date.

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  • pariah

    LOL
    … such losers

  • td

    Quote:
    “LOL
    … such losers”
    :)

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  • Slick

    I wouldn’t put it past the MPAA or anyone associated with them to pull something like that. The FBI and other branches of law enforcement, along with movie studios have putting dummy files up for download on Gnutella in the hopes to catch someone. Police officers disguise themselves as hookers and arrest people that proposition them (even though -they- are the ones offering the sex) And Disguise themselves as drug dealers, then try sto bust buyers. (even though -they- are selling drugs, which is still illegal, no matter what side of the coin you want to look at.)

    Did they do it? Who knows.
    Would they? Highly possible.
    Do they have enough money to try and get away with it? Yep.

  • Durk

    Slick, undercover arrests are fine, even when sex is offered, because a crime is committed ONLY when the perp accepts or agrees to the offer.

    Even with drug dealing, if you are accepting an offer to buy drugs, YOU are the one committing the crime. And undercover officers don’t really sell drugs, they just make an offer.

  • h

    so i guess all the drug dealers should be released from prison because they haven’t actually committed a crime. what a sily argument and how foolish to automatically trust the government.

  • Kyle Bates

    Since the beginning of time, troubadours and entertainers (actors, jokers, etc) have always been poor as desert rocks.

    It was greedy bastards like the MPAA and the RIAA that created a so called “industry” from the troubadours, many times even ripping them off.

    time “the industry” returns back all the trillions they stole from us, selling CD’s for 19.95 , what a sick joke, a CD should have cost a quarter, which is a crapload more than they cost to produce.

    However, we can’t forget ourselves (stupid americans who keep paying illegal taxes so the idiot in chief and his cronies can get richer and erase more liberties) are the ones, who agreed to get raped every time we bought a CD.

    Vive la liberte, screw the MPAA and what they stand for.

  • Draconis

    Neither sex nor drugs should be a criminal offense. Dear God, how dumb are we to even tolerate such inane ‘laws’? It’s clear that the government doesn’t care one iota for our health or wellbeing. We are merely financial batteries feeding our corrupt system of ‘justice’ which favors big business over you and me. Who really benefits from the MPAA/RIAA harassment of citizens? The artists? Give me a break. Anyone who has done their homework understands that the artists get a mere pittance from these greedy mafiosos in business suits. There’s a problem in the world today, and if the government thinks that file trading deserves more attention than fighting the war on terrorism. You have to wonder just how necessary all of these extreme measures our overlords are taking for ‘homeland security’.

    While stealing is wrong, there are far greater crimes being perpetuated today such as our tax dollars being stolen away from benefitting americans at home and instead lining the pockets of politicians who give themselves pay raises every 6 months and funding an illegal war on terrorism where the majority who suffer and die are innocent.

  • Stan Worthinfield

    Durk, your argument is lame and unintelligent, I’d assume your a cop.

  • James

    Seriously Durk,

    If I open a fake sperm bank, and you come in and masturbate for $50. And I videotape you doin your business and show it to the boys at your precinct, is that ok?

  • stavspam

    Dear Durk said

    “…if you are accepting an offer to buy drugs, YOU are the one committing the crime. And undercover officers don’t really sell drugs, they just make an offer.”
    It’s also an offence to offer or promise to provide drugs per se. In essence the cops are the ones that break the law, in order to entrap people…

  • CanBert

    The very simple def of entrapment is being forced to do something you would not normally do. So you offering to buy drugs from an undercover is and never would be entrapment as you would of bought em from someone else..it is something you were not forced to do or had no choice to do.

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  • Remi

    I think the judge should be put in prison for the rest of his life for violating the oath he swore when he took the chair. Speaking of chairs, why not put the people of the MPAA in the electric chair. We have rights for a reason. They are there so that the government can not control every aspect of our lives. There are also Amendments and constitutions. They violate every right we have almost. Yes they are trying to protect someone or thing, but do it legally. Find another way to get what they want. They have more lawyers than this country needs and yet they aren’t smart enough to figure out a way to get information that will help them without violating someone’s rights or breaking the law themselves?! I believe the government is falling apart and becoming more corrupted everyday. I have watch this happen everyday and for the fact that if I wanted to do something about it, I would be in prison for the rest of my life and never able to leave my cell, this is what they want too.

  • yolarrydabomb

    well well well, they say hacking is aganst the law but yet they are doing it.

  • Grape

    Come on people lets face it the governments are the biggest crooks of all time, we get caught downloading a film/music we get sent to hell, but thats nothing compared to what these pencil neck idiots get away with. accept its all perfectly legal for them.

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