December 21, 2007

BitTorrent search site loses case

TorrentSpy, a website which facilitated the online exchange of films, music and TV programmes without permission has lost a US copyright case. The BBC reports.

"A judge made a default ruling in favour of the MPAA after she said the site's operators had tampered with evidence.

The site had ignored an order to retain server logs and the unique online addresses of computers which traded files using the
BitTorrent program.

The ruling could have personal privacy implications because the information TorrentSpy had been told to retain was held in Random Access Memory of computers."

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