Film piracy suit.(ST. KITTS & NEVIS)

0 Comments | Caribbean Update, June, 2008

A lawyer for Nevis-registered Valence Media vowed to appeal a US$110 million legal judgment in Los Angeles federal court against its TorrentSpy website for directing people to unauthorized online copies of films and TV shows, reports AFP (May 12, 2008):

Valence shut down the TorrentSpy website in March and filed for bankruptcy in the face of a lawsuit brought against it by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). TorrentSpy lawyer Ira Rothken said the judge's decision stemmed from Valence's refusal to reveal the identities of website users and that whether the website infringed copyrights was never resolved in court. TorrentSpy sent "spiders" crawling the Internet to find torrent files without asking their contents and then compiled online addresses in...

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