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MPAA's hacking history bites it in the Aris
THE MPAA has found that its nasty habit of paying hackers to steal emails from TorrentSpy and the Pirate Bay has ended it up in court again.
The MPAA was sued after it hired Robert Anderson, to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets from TorrentSpy and the Pirate back.
Anderson was a former associate of TorrentSpy owner Justin Bunnel, and he flogged the data he nicked for $15,000.
When Bunnel sued, a judge chucked the case out because the MPAA did not technically intercept them under the WireTap Act.
Now TorrentSpy, supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is appealing on the grounds that if the ruling is upheld then it would mean that unauthorised copying of other people's emails was perfectly legal.
Pirate Bay is not doing anything because those cutlass wielders find it amazingly funny that the MPAA may have bought information like that, expensively, and against the US law. Only proves their stupidity and that they have no case.
However if the MPAA loses the appeal it could be one stuff-up too many for MPAA President Dan Glickman. Hollywood insiders are gettting miffed at Glickman for being about as useful as a chocolate teapot. The appeal is due around the time his contract is up for renewal. µ
L'INQ
TorrentFreak
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anyway, I pirate because I refuse to be punished for being a good customer. I also wont pay $50 for a game and only get 6 hours of game play. Then they complain that no one buys PC games. here is one for ya, make games, say, $20 each. I'd buy 5 with $100 instead of 2, and I would buy WAY more games if that was the case. I'm sure a lot of other people would too. thing is, this stuff is over priced. Supply and demand is is really low. There is unlimited supply, and high demand, but who wants to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a blue ray disk that you watch 5 times and put on the shelf. They are trying to force their overpriced goods on us, and I don't like.
What some people don't realize is that law is based on customs. If everyone is doing something then it's defacto legal.
I pirate because I can't get any of this stuff out in Japan. No choice. Video store only sells porn.
Also i pirate because everyone else does too. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know i'm part of a warmer fuzzier group.
It's just another distribution method. Get over the fear factor. It's nonsense.
I'm a pirate because of all the stuff I read about the RIAA suing innocent people for outrageous sums of money.
If they were to reduce the amounts to maybe 10 times the value of the nicked property, I'll very happily go back to being a customer of Blockbuster Video.