$110 Million Bill For TorrentSpy

BitTorrent portal TorrentSpy has been ordered by a Federal Court Judge in Los Angeles to pay a $110 million fine to the movie industry in compensation for facilitating piracy.

U.S. District Judge Florence -Marie Cooper in Los Angeles, ruling in a case brought by the Motion Picture Association of America, said site operator Justin Bunnell and associates must pay the maximum $30,000 for “each of the 3,699 infringements shown.”

The case, producing what is among the largest fines in copyright history, was bolstered after the MPAA allegedly paid a hacker $15,000 for internal TorrentSpy e-mails and correspondence.

Via Inquisti Via TorrentFreak/ Wired

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