Privacy or Piracy? Torrentspy.com loses US copyright case…
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Monday 17th December 2007, San Francisco - the operators of Torrentspy.com, the popular bit torrent search engine, have lost a copyright case against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) after it was ruled that they had tampered with evidence by ignoring a ruling to retain server logs and unique online computer addresses. In a ruling that could have implications for the privacy of Web site users, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, ruled that TorrentSpy has infringed MPAA copyrights. (more…)
On the drive home the other night, I could have been forgiven for thinking that there was an alien abduction or a rock concert taking place as one stretch of the Howth Road in Clontarf appeared to be fully illuminated as if someone were shining a huge torch at it from the other side of the road.