Torrentspy
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Movie association sues newsgroup, P2P search sites
News Hollywood expands the scope of its antipiracy lawsuits, targeting sites that search the Web and newsgroups for copyright works.
Tags: Web sites, Digital media
Hollywood's copyright enforcer
Insight Dean Garfield helped lead the fights against music sites Grokster and Kazaa. Now he's battling pirates from the movie studios' ramparts.
TorrentSpy lawyer battling 'copyright extremism'
News Ira Rothken, a veteran of nasty copyright fights between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, has a large stake in the copyright system.
Tags: Copyright
Isohunt judge says MPAA has yet to prove direct infringment
News Federal court judge says studios must convince him that Isohunt's U.S. users are violating copyright. Isohunt's attorney says he's hopeful case will go to a jury.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, TorrentSpy, BitTorrent, copyright violation, MPAA, Judge, U.S. District Court Judge, U.S. District Judge, Web 2.0
Studios win US$100M judgment against TorrentSpy
News Los Angeles federal court judge also issues permanent injunction against former search engine of BitTorrent files.
Tags: Web sites, Multimedia, TorrentSpy, BitTorrent, Search Engine, MPAA, financial, Internet, Los Angeles, California
TorrentSpy loses California copyright lawsuit
News A federal judge has ruled against the BitTorrent indexing service TorrentSpy.com, saying that its hiding and destruction of evidence made a fair trial impossible.
Tags: Lawsuits, Copyright, Web 2.0, Web services
File-sharing 'graveyard' still filling up
News The Internet's graveyard is deep with companies that have been sued out of business by the entertainment industry.
Tags: Peer to peer
