MarketingVOX: The MPAA is up to its old tricks.
The organization that set up a bogus torrent site in an effort to catch pirates in the act has allegedly paid a former employee of TorrentSpy US$ 15,000 for 34 pages of emails exchanged between TorrentSpy executives, according to Ars Technica.
The torrent site rebutted with a lawsuit, claiming the move infringed on wiretapping laws, yet the court threw it out, stating that MPAA’s actions were legal, since the informant signed an affidavit stating the emails were acquired legitimately.
The former employee hacked into TorrentSpy’s server and forwarded the emails to a private Gmail account.
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