Torrent Spy appeals
Judge ignored case
BANKRUPTED P2P SITE Torrent Spy has said it will appeal against a $110-million-dollar legal judgment after losing its case against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The MPAA spun a line that the loss of the case proved that such sites were illegal and it had every right to shut them down.
But Torrent Spy lawyer Ira Rothken said that the ruling had nothing to do with the merits of the case and the legality of P2P sites. Instead the ruling was because Torrent Spy refused to reveal the identities of website users and the matter of whether the website infringed copyrights was never resolved in court.
The site used 'spiders' to find torrent files without asking their contents and then built a public index hosted on computer servers in The Netherlands.
He said that if a person published a book with a list of internet addresses
they would not be culpable for the content of those sites.
If the MPAA were allowed to win the case, then Google would have to shut down
because it is possible to use it to link to copyrighted material. µ
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So the question is: does the next judge also need a new shiny car with vanity plates like the previous ones?asdf
f### MPAA, BREIN, RIAA, and all those greedy losers who will sign up anybody to become an "artist" to get more $$$,$$$,$$$.$$.f'em. I have been downloading stuff for 5 years (mostly software and games) and will continue doing that.
Stupid judges
"If the MPAA were allowed to win the case, then Google would have to shut down because it is possible to use it to link to copyrighted material."That is so true.
Go to Hell MPAA, RIAA
who the FUXK need MPAA?telling film makers what to do. rate films in favorite of the MPAA member associates only: (paramount, wb, fox, etc.)
bit torrent use increase, MPAA lost 0 revenue
absolutely 0, they make profits every year. it only goes up, cry more b!tches. here you go, suck a C0CK.
trying to cheat your customers' money, we are a smarter generation, we do "test drive" before buying your movies, then finding 99% of your release are sh!t crap just crap, and now you are angry that you can't charge us for those "test drive".
i saw some one wrote something like this from another site, "some person drives a Toyota, then hit my car, i will sue Toyota for selling the car which hit my car? oh in fact, i should sue the fuxking dealer which carried the Toyota which hit my car." catch us if you can, catch the entire 10+ billion bit torrent users world wide.
we will fuxking put a torrent server up on Mars very soon, MPAA: "damn you Mars people, damn you".
please make fuxking sense MPAA, 0 torrents are being removed, and 0 torrent will ever be removed, remove yourself from the film industry, we don't need your bull sh!t.
..|.. the middle one is for you MPAA. the insane judge must be one of your friend, 110million, LOL, ROFL, LMAO.
a fuxking perfect April fools joke, slave the torrent spy staffs for life, no one will have 110M to pay you dumb fuxks.
110M I DO HAVE IT, my "man juice", its in my "bank" down below, suck it and you can have it all night long.
I agree with Leil
I just choose to be more polite about it. ;)I download torrents BECAUSE of the RIAA lawsuits. My favorite artist is Bon Jovi, I own most of his stuff illegally, because if 10% or less goes to the band, I´m not interested in buying it legally. If Bon Jovi were to call me, I´d very happily hand over $25 per cd, because I love the band. But paying $18(including tax) to enrich the RIAA doesn´t sound like a good use of my money.
(The captcha is isuxvum; very suggestive, I must say.)
WOW
some people need to unplug a bit...Amazing!
I must thank Leil for the fascinating insight into the number of Bit-Torrent users...With more than Ten Billion currently pirating music regularily it's not a wonder the RIAAss. is running scared.
The dead are not just walking the streets, they're stealing our Copyright!
pointers not content?
Torrents are merly pointers right? Basicly a go to there to get this. Torrents themselves are not the copyrighted content. Torrent sites are just sites pointing where to go. information.Their are many books that tell you how to do illegal things and tell you where you can get the materials. I've seen plenty of books on hacking at Barnes & Noble.
How are these any different. They are both how to and where to get. Doesn't that fall under free speech and/or freedom of information?