MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy

goldaryn writes "Valence Media, the parent company of Torrentspy.com, one of the web's largest torrent search engines, has filed a lawsuit against the MPAA for allegedly hiring a hacker to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets. From the suit: 'The Motion Picture Association of America willfully and intentionally obtained without authority, conspired to obtain without authority, purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it knew was unlawfully obtained through unauthorized access to Plaintiffs' computer servers and private email accounts, in violation of United States and California privacy and computer security laws.'"

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Re:if the MPAA is sued and loses

[Alex P Keaton in da]

No it was a typo- you are correct- And it is obnoxious when people try and correct someone else and then make an error themselves.
My point is this- there are terms that when misused cause confusion. When some guy in marketing talks about scalability, he is going to confuse a tech guy who knows what scalability really is...
I am extra irritated because my boss is a blowhard who uses the term ROI all the time, and I went along on a sales call with him and he was using the term, and the person we were calling on got all confused.
Anyhow- way to catch my typo. I need to lern to spel.

Re:But

[Solra Bizna]

Clearly, you don't live in the United States. Move here, and in a few weeks, you'll understand what GP was talking about.

-:sigma.SB