More evidence that Hollywood’s MPAA paid a hacker to illegally break into the Torrentspy dbase has come in a new court document.
Last month Torrentspy’s US lawyer Ira Rothken alleged the MPAA’s Dean Garfield offered to pay the $15,000 for information hacked from Torrentspy.com, “after he and the MPAA reviewed it, if they found it useful”.
Now the hacker has been named as Robert Anderson fromVancouver in BC, Canada.
His services were, “purchased by the defendant, the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA’)” for $15,000 to obtain, “confidential information and trade secrets of plaintiffs,” says the document, filed with the US District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles.
