MPAA Wins Copyright Infringement Case Against TorrentSpy

[Jorge]

Federal judge entered a default judgment against the BitTorrent tracker site after finding that it 'engaged in widespread and systematic efforts to destroy evidence.'
Chalk up a hollow win for the MPAA for it was announced yesterday that Federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper in Los Angeles has terminated an ongoing lawsuit against the once-mighty TorrentSpy in favor of the MPAA. Once one of the world's most popular public BitTorrent tracker sites, it's now more of an afterthought than anything to users after it decided a while back to cut off access by US visitors.
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[rodgerse]

wow, oh well

[JestaGeek]

LOL... it's like plugging holes in a dike. Are they gonna shut down Google, too? For every torrent tracker or indexing site that goes, it seems another few pop up... using the same code, but with better knowledge about how to avoid the problems of the last guys. Good luck MPAA/RIAA/BSA, etc. Better they should try to find ways to recapture the hearts and minds of their customers than make everyone of them feel criminalized for the modern equivalent of recording a song from the radio or a show from the tv.

[Dark Messenger]

Better they should try to find ways to recapture the hearts and minds of their customers than make everyone of them feel criminalized for the modern equivalent of recording a song from the radio or a show from the tv.

I agree with you but tell me how can the Recording Industry Association of America make any money by offering high bitrate downloads of all their artists for free?

[JestaGeek]

I agree with you but tell me how can the Recording Industry Association of America make any money by offering high bitrate downloads of all their artists for free?Point taken. OTOH, if they actually are prosecuting people for "trying out" bands they might not find in their local stores, people just look for proxies and miss the point that they are ripping off the artists by not paying something for the songs they like. I think the real problem is that it takes little money to distribute zeroes and ones over the net, so it's a bit criminal that the legit music download sites charge about as much for an album as if you walked into a retailer and bought the shrinkwrapped CD with it's jewel case, lyrics insert and all.

If they (RIAA, et. al.) just accepted that people WILL share music and encouraged people to support artists they enjoy, so that they can afford to eat and buy their instruments and bling, more people might actually DO that instead of feeling like now's the time for payback against an industry that's historically shafted both artists and listeners.

Aaaahhh... But maybe that's just a utopian dream. :icon_flow

[DLiver420]

Coming after people like us is missing the point, they need to focus their attention to the masses who DON'T know how to get it for free. The people with just enough tech savvy to install iTunes and shell out $.99 a track. We are never going to pay for it, at least not through them (I support bands by going to live shows, at least the record co's don't rape them quite as bad on concerts) Our society is going to get it for free, no matter what they do to try and stop us. From Napster to Kazaa to Morpheus to Bearshare to TorrentSpy to Oink and down the line, they figure out how to slow us down, we figure out a new way to speed up (well, not me personally. I just follow the smart people toward free media). In business you have to pick your battles and they're fighting one they can never win.

[manakazero]

I never used TorrentSpy, but it's always sad to see yet another tracker get busted like this