San Francisco - Digital civil liberties advocates the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will file a friend-of-the-court brief in support of TorrentSpy, a site that links to copyrighted downloads that has been sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), CNET News.com reported. A judge in the case recently ruled that temporary RAM memory on TorrentSpy's servers must be stored and turned over to the court. "This is the first time the court has found that information found only in RAM is subject to preservation," EFF senior staff attorney Fred von Lohmann told CNET. "Companies may be obliged to begin logging and producing information about conversations that occur on digital phones, which are stored on RAM. Nobody is asked to preserve records for analog phone conversations."

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