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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[Overly Critical Guy]

You're right. The fact Torrentspy has filed lawsuit automatically makes it true, and the MPAA guilty.

This ties into the typical Slashdot theme:

1.) It's wrong for the MPAA to dare sue or do anything at all to prevent rampant unauthorized copying of its materials, even though it owns the copyrights to all of them.

2.) It's perfectly okay for torrent piracy groups to sue the MPAA, because it's funny and ironic! Ha ha! Take that, MPAA!

3.) It's also perfectly okay to sue when GPL code gets ripped off, because stealing GPL code is wrong. Even though we say "piracy isn't theft," we call it "stealing" when the GPL is violated. Piracy is only okay when we're stealing from a group we've been told to hate on Slashdot.

Basically, freeloaders who don't want to pay for stuff have crafted entire belief systems to justify what they do, scapegoating legal copyright holders when they do anything at all to fight back. So I'm sure we'll see a lot of cheering over this suit in the comments.