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$110m fine - Ouch!

NickHNickH
edited May 2008 in Chit chat
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/07/mpaa_awarded_110m_from_torrentspy/

Of course, that's only about ?4.50 at today's exchange rate.
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  • polomintpolomint
    edited May 2008
    What are torrents? :wink:
    So far, so meh :)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited May 2008
    I have used a fair few torrents in the past, mp3 sites etc etc but no way on earth would i want to host one of these and run a site myself !!

    I read on torrentspy.com about the amount of money theyve had to pay in court etc, what benefits do they get (surely they didnt get a ton of advertising money) from torrentspy apart from all the hungry downloaders loving their site for free ?
  • NickHNickH
    edited May 2008
    You'd have to be a fool to set one of these up in the States and think you'd be able to get away with it.
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited May 2008
    Surely russia or china as they dont seem to give a monkeys what sites they host !
  • CKayCKay
    edited May 2008
    - 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.

    How come they are just being done for 3,699 movies? I think I got more movies than that from there :D

    Great that demonoid is back up, tbh I never used TorrentSpy that much once I knew what was going on in the courts, demonoid always has the more rare films that you can't easily get elsewhere. Yay to demonoid ;)
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited May 2008
    polomint wrote: »
    What are torrents? :wink:

    Something to do with rain, right?
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited May 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Something to do with rain, right?
    In your world, yes...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited May 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    polomint wrote: »
    What are torrents? :wink:
    Something to do with rain, right?
    In your world, yes...
    It never rains in your world?
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited May 2008
    $110m down the drain - A Torrential Downpour. :D
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