'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA'

Wired has up an article with a man named Robert Anderson, who was recruited by the MPAA in 2005 to inform on people in the BitTorrent community. In a tell-all interview with the site, Anderson explains how the powerful media organization encouraged him to obtain the information they were looking for: "According to Anderson, the MPAA told him: 'We would need somebody like you. We would give you a nice paying job, a house, a car, anything you needed.... if you save Hollywood for us you can become rich and powerful.' In 2005, the MPAA paid Anderson $15,000 for inside information about TorrentSpy -- information at the heart of a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by the MPAA against TorrentSpy of Los Angeles. The material is also the subject of a wiretapping countersuit against the MPAA brought by TorrentSpy's founder, Justin Bunnell, who alleges the information was obtained illegally."

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This is becoming the norm

[bogaboga]

The other day, one former Bush insider was also "telling all!" And just last night, I watched the former CIA spy saying something similar about her former job and bosses. What's going on? Are these new trends?

Re:This is becoming the norm

[mentaldingo]

Yeah I've noticed the same thing recently... What about the employees exposing Fox which was on digg yesterday (yeah I visit digg occasionally. Mod me down).

I am outraged!!!

[ThirdPrize]

I haven't read the FA, the summary or even the title of the story but I am outraged. Outraged that something like this could happen somewhere and someone may or may not do something about it.