Utorrent web tv#
Utorrent web torrent#

On May 7, 2008, a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to pay the Motion Picture Association of America $110 million for alleged infringement of thousands of copyrighted film and TV shows. 'Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order and the like.' - Justice William O. Ultimately the Court demanded actions that in our view were inconsistent with our privacy policy, traditional court rules, and International law therefore, we now feel compelled to provide the ultimate method of privacy protection for our users - permanent shutdown. We spent the last two years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, defending the rights of our users and ourselves.

Utorrent web torrent#

The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy of search requests, and links to torrent files in search results is simply too hostile. We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.

On March 24, 2008, TorrentSpy's servers were shut down, shortly after a message was posted commenting on the end of TorrentSpy: Even though MPAA admitted in the court having bought the inside e-mails, justice ruled that they contained no business secrets, nor that there would have been anything illegal in the procedure. He was also able to hack into TorrentSpy's e-mail system and hand over confidential information to the MPAA. In October 2007, a former TorrentSpy associate, Robert Anderson, said that the MPAA paid him $15,000 for inside information about the website. The ability for users to make comments on individual torrents was also disabled at this time. In response, the MPAA filed documents calling TorrentSpy's denial of access 'another illegitimate attempt by defendants to evade authority of this court and the May 29 order', and asking for sanctions. In August 2007, TorrentSpy began denying access to United States users and international users using US-based ISPs. users before it started monitoring anyone, since such monitoring is in violation of TorrentSpy's own privacy policy. The TorrentSpy attorney, Ira Rothken, stated that TorrentSpy would rather deny access to U.S. On May 29, 2007, A United States federal judge ordered that TorrentSpy begin monitoring its users' activities and to submit these logs to the Motion Picture Association of America. In February 2006, the MPAA filed lawsuits against TorrentSpy, isoHunt, and others for 'abusing technology to facilitate infringement of copyrighted works.'