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MPAA wins $110 mil in Torrent Spy suit


May 07, 2008 Last month, TorrentSpy bit the dust, shuttering its peer-to-peer file-sharing site, and now a federal judge has ordered the company to pay the MPAA $110 million for infringement of thousands of copyrighted film and TV shows. In a four-page final ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper entered the multimillion-dollar judgment against TorrentSpy parent company, Valence Media, for willfully inducing, contributing and vicariously allowing copyright infringement on its Web site. "The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy of search requests and links to torrent files in search results is simply too hostile," the message reads.

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