MPAA claims that TorrentSpy was withholding information stored on site's servers.
The
lawsuit between media companies and TorrentSpy heats up as the MPAA accuses the
torrent site of concealing evidence. For the first time, the courts have
found that electronic trail left in a computer server's RAM, or random access
memory, must be turned over as evidence during litigation, CNET
reported in a blog.
The decision was issued by Jacqueline Chooljiian, a federal judge in the
Central District of California in Los Angeles. The decision was made
during the legal battle between movie studios and TorrentSpy over copyright
infringement. Chooljiian ordered the bittorrent site to start logging
user activity and IP addresses. TorrentSpy also has to turn over the data
to the Motion Picture Associate of America (MPAA).
The judge stayed the order on Friday to allow TorrentSpy time to prepare an
appeal, which must be filed by Tuesday. The judge also allowed the
website to mask the IP addresses of users for now.
"We have spent the last year challenging their relentless campaign against
the 1st Amendment and personal privacy laws Worldwide. We have succeeded in
delaying the court order to turn on logs while we appeal it. TorrentSpy will
not create logs of what you do on the site without your consent."
Torrentspy
claims that they will not release any user information and have never
tracked user IP addresses, searches users make, or how they use the site.
"I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired." -- North Korean Supreme Commander Kim Jong-il
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