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.

Valence Media, the parent company of Torrentspy.com, charges the MPAA paid the Canadian resident $15,000 for information on Torrentspy and its executives, according to documents filed Thursday with U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles.

“I contacted (the MPAA) and offered to provide it information regarding (Torrentspy.com founder) Justin Bunnell and Torrentspy,” according to a signed statement by Robert Anderson, the man identified elsewhere in the filing as a “hacker.”

Among the claims by Valence Media is that as part of its attempt to gather information on Torrentspy, the MPAA hired private investigators to comb the trash cans of Torrentspy executives. Valence Media obtained this information from Anderson, who for undisclosed reasons has agreed to help the company against the MPAA, according to copy of the suit obtained by CNET News.com. Valence Media has asked a judge to order the MPAA to turn over the information taken by Anderson and to identify anyone that the MPAA may have shared it with.

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