TorrentSpy hands Hollywood victory
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 18 December 2007
The Motion Picture Industry Ass of America has won an unexpected victory after a Los Angeles Court terminated a copyright lawsuit against TorrentSpy in its favour.
The Dutch-based site bills itself as the largest BitTorrent search engine.
"The court finds that plaintiffs have suffered prejudice, to the extent that a rightful decision is not possible," Judge Florence-Marie Cooper concluded, citing false statements and "widespread and systematic efforts to destroy evidence".
TorrentSpy's San Francisco-based lawyer Ira Rothken denied it had destroyed evidence, but said it did so to protect users.
TorrentSpy now faces a financial penalty, the size of which has yet to be determined.
I might have missed something here, but why should Torrentspy pay? The suit was obviously in the US, Torrentspy is Dutch-based. Perhaps they should just relocate to Antigua and operate from there, together with Slysoft.