'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA'

Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, 2007 @11:01PM from the definition-of-catharsis dept.

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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When hypocrites attack... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-21 23:17 · Score: -1, Troll

So an association of businesses used legal methods to protect their legal and legitimate income stream. and now a bunch of whiny entitlement-head Slashdotters will bitch about it because they're too dumb to figure out that thir own financial security depends on the same laws and the same system.