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MPAA is Awarded $110 Million In TorrentSpy Case

Posted by samzenpus on from the those-who-have-the-money-have-the-power dept.

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."

5 of 523 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Perspective by phantomcircuit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To put that in perspective the GDP for Burma is (in millions) 13,700 USD. The United States was 13,790,000, almost exactly 1,000 times larger. So giving them 3 million dollars in aid will have the same effect that 3 billion dollars would have in the United States.

    Then again Katrina relief topped 200 billion and it still wasn't enough....

  2. Re:Perspective by dreamchaser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wouldn't have used the terms that the AC did, but I can understand his anger. The OP was out of line for the real reasons mentioned, minus the ad hominem crap.

  3. Re:LOL by pfleming · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Defendant, and its officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and all those in active concert or participation with Defendant who receive actual notice of this Permanent Injunction shall immediately and permanently be enjoined from directly, indirectly, contributorily, or vicariously infringing in any manner any Copyrighted Works..." So this is kinda like "don't do it again"? Why aren't people laughing about this? If it were a real crime, say like shooting someone, and part of the punishment is that you aren't allowed to shoot anyone else in the future it would seem like a joke. Here no one mentions it at all.
  4. Re:Perspective by Curtman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Do you really think they would have put up with the terrorist bullshit from the territories and Lebanon otherwise?

    Who cares what they put up with? They have no birth right to that land, no matter how much they believe they do.

    Peaceful and innocent people are being killed in Burma.
  5. That is in by Tenebrousedge · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    unbelievably poor taste.

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    Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.