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MPAA is Awarded $110 Million In TorrentSpy Case
An anonymous reader writes "The MPAA was awarded a staggering judgment in its case against the BitTorrent indexing site TorrentSpy. According to Slyck.com, a judge in California rendered a $110 million victory for the MPAA, and a permanent injunction against TorrentSpy."
Why no jail?
If only there were other sites to use. Oh well, BitTorrent was good while it lasted.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
--Ronald Reagan
Dr. Evil: Shit. Oh hell, let's just do what we always do. Hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage. Yeah? Good! Gentlemen, it has come to my attention that a breakaway Russian Republic called Kreplachistan will be transferring a nuclear warhead to the United Nations in a few days. Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Number Two: Don't you think we should ask for *more* than a million dollars? A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year! Dr. Evil: Really? That's a lot of money.
[pause]
Dr. Evil: Okay then, we hold the world ransom for...
Dr. Evil: One... Hundred... BILLION DOLLARS!
If I can not smoke in heaven, then I shall not go. -- Mark Twain
Internet Money FTW!
Those poor crew members will get reimbursed for the piracy that has hurt them and their families dearly. You know, the ones in the clips the theaters used to show before previews came on, where some older black guy was claiming how piracy hurts him and his family and every one involved in making a movie. It's quite possible they still show that clip but I wouldn't know since I stopped going to the theater last year because I was tired of the ridiculous ticket prices and lack of original movies the past few years.
So much hatred...
It's not his fault ... he's just been playing GTA IV for the last 8 hours straight.
If he tries to move into the wilderness to live off the land, the MPAA will follow him and send an accountant to keep track of the value of each handful of berries and mushrooms in $USD, two security guards, a lackey for the accountant with a clipboard, a fifth guy trained to take the guy's stash of food and leave little sticky notes informing him of how much debt he's paid off, and a sixth guy to drive the mini-van and operate the cameras.
I bet the MPAA would have settled for ONE MILLION DOLLARS and a couple of sharks with laser beams.
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Give them three pirated Britney Spears albums. Apparently that's worth about $110 million according to the RIAA.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
The US (or any other) Government believing that people have worth? That can't be right.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
You know... the REAL question is why was the figure so low?
The RIAA went after AllofMP3.com for 1.6 trillion (with a T). And here the MPAA could only get a 110 million judgment? What's wrong with them? The MPAA has only 1/15000 of the muscle of the RIAA??? Pishya, amateurs....
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all language nazi's will burne in heil!
If they did that, the US would somehow find Al Qaeda there and start bombing.
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
I was walking down the street today and I had skipped lunch. That hobo I passed that didn't buy me a sandwich was a real asshole, eh?
Now that would be an appropriate analogy, but only if the hobo were a quadriplegic schizophrenic crack addict and if I were, say, the sole owner of ConAgra foods. And we were standing in one of my Peter Pan Peanut Butter factories.
asshole hobos.
The iraqies seem happy enough to be helped... Oh, wait..
Requiem for the American Dream
This is the end of BitTorrent. But, I doesn't have to end. If only someone would make a torrent index in another country, we could keep torrents alive. Maybe we could use this new thing called a search engine to find another torrent index outside of the US, away from co-op states ran by movie stars.
I was reading along, came across your post and thought; "Hey, why is this guy injecting a non-sequitur post about copyright infringement into a discussion about Burma?" but then I remembered to look at my browser window's title bar.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Your analogy might have made sense, if the hobo was a crazed military dictator. And your factory was on fire.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
The wind picked up
The people cried
The cyclone came
And millions died.
Burma Save.
I used to work for NetQoS. I no longer do, but want to keep the excellent karma attached to this account.
Sounds like Fox's next reality TV show. Wait... that would enable them to pay off the debt in 3 seasons!