TorrentSpy to Appeal the $110M Fine for Copyright Infringement
	Although the court ruled that TorrentSpy must pay a fine of $110 million to MPAA and some of you thought that the lawsuit was finally over, it seems like the dispute will continue because the BitTorrent website decided to appeal the decision. According to AFP, a TorrentSpy lawyer said they would appeal the court ruling, so the lawsuit will go on. The MPAA saw the ruling as a real victory and said that it should be the best exampl ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TorrentSpy Fined $110 Millions for Copyright Infringement
	The battle against BitTorrent websites suspected of copyright infringement and distribution of pirated material reached another milestone yesterday when the movie studios, represented by the MPAA, won the lawsuit against TorrentSpy. The legal dispute was started a long time ago when, just like many other BitTorrent services on the web, TorrentSpy was sued for copyright infringement, MPAA making serious efforts to shut down its se ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 02:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TorrentSpy Shut Down, The Pirate Bay Moves Servers in Egypt
	After TorrentSpy, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet, got shut down, another similar webpage makes a major move due to tough copyright laws. The Pirate Bay today announced that it decided to move its servers in Sinai, Egypt, as a result of new copyright legislation promoted in Sweden. According to a blog post on Pirate Bay, one of the administrators of the website moved to Sinai and will remain there as l ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BitTorrent Website Records Huge Audience
	We all know the authorities struggle to shut down the BitTorrent websites and reduce the amount of pirated content they suspect these services distribute every day. But closing them is not always a disaster for the BitTorrent services. The best example is represented by The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent technology that managed to double the number of users after similar websites got closed by the investigators. According to ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 10:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BitTorrent Website Officially Dead
	The fight against the BitTorrent services, which have been accused for distributing or for supporting the distribution of pirated content, made a new victim. Demonoid, the BitTorrent service that was first closed in November, is still unavailable and it seems that a resurrection is not yet possible. In case you missed the news, Demonoid was first closed on November 9th, after many similar websites had been shut down due to an imp ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 09:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TorrentSpy Loses Legal Dispute against MPAA
	Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, terminated the TorrentSpy case, ruling that the BitTorrent search engine infringed the MPAA copyright. In addition, TorrentSpy was criticized for destroying evidence which could be used in court. According to MPAA, the judge said that the evidence was "not deleted or modified negligently, but intentionally in direct response to t ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

After TorrentSpy and Demonoid, IsoHunt Also Closed. No More Torrent Downloads Soon?
	The fight against the torrent trackers distributing or boosting illegal material on the Internet is now making new victims. After two top players, TorrentSpy and Demonoid, were shut down, IsoHunt also bites the dust but only partially. The founder of the technology announced that IsoHunt becomes unavailable for the US consumers due to a lawsuit started by Motion Picture Assoc. of America. In case you don't know, MPAA filed a ... [read more >>]
	27 September 2007, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TorrentSpy Banned in the United States
	The famous torrent search engine TorrentSpy was banned in the United States and blocked the access of the local consumers on the official page of the service after a judge demanded the owners of the product to disclose private information about the users. Until the lawyers appeal the decision, TorrentSpy will remain unavailable for the US consumers but it will continue to be opened for other users since the main servers are locat ... [read more >>]
	28 August 2007, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Torrents Going Down? No way!
	Oh, boy, torrents infringing copyright laws – isn't that a surprise? Not! Same thing as always, just with another name. I don't get it. Don't these guys get sick of it? Everyone knows that torrents are used to illegally download stuff! Nobody uses them to get open software, because you can get that from the developer. I think all torrents should be forbidden if we are to properly enforce copyrights. People just ... [read more >>]
	28 August 2007, 08:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No More Pirated Content on TorrentSpy
	Following the recent legal problems encountered by the famous BitTorrent website, the owners of the service decided to release a special function to fight against pirated content. FileRights, the new function, is meant to filter the search results to avoid pirated content from being indexed by the webpage. As you probably know, TorrentSpy serves as a search engine that provides instant access to thousands of pages, no matter if they contai ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TorrentSpy Forced to Spy Users and Offer Private Information
	A federal judge demanded TorrentSpy, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet, to provide private information about its users and present it to the authorities. Jacqueline Chooljian, the judge from the Central District of California in Los Angeles, required detailed logs to analyze the users’ activity on the website but offered a period of time to allow TorrentSpy to appeal the decision. According to CNET, TorrentSpy ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia