The court fined the search engine TorrentSpy to 111 million dollars
District Court in Los Angeles ruled that the owners now defunct search engine TorrentSpy obliged to pay compensation in the amount of 111 million dollars for copyright infringement.
TorrentSpy allowed to seek material distributed via file-sharing networks with support for the protocol BitTorrent. In 2006, the American Association kinokompany (MRAA) has initiated a lawsuit against TorrentSpy, accusing the service of aiding piracy by simplifying searching and downloading copyright protected material.
Under pressure from rights holders TorrentSpy initially was forced to discontinue services to users in the United States, then enter the filtering system links to pirated material, and subsequently did cease to exist. According to the owners of service caused the closure was a discrepancy claims court domestic politics of the search engine.
It now tells Associated Press, this week, the court granted Hollywood studios claim to recover compensation from the company Valence Media LLC, operator of TorrentSpy, for copyright infringement. Each case of illegal downloads of films or television show episodes praised the court in 30 thousand dollars. Given that MRAA counted approximately 3700 cases of copyright violations, the total compensation could reach 111 million dollars.
The company Valence Media LLC has already declared intention to initiate the procedure of bankruptcy and therefore sent a request to suspend the entry into force of a court decision.
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