Los Angeles - TorrentSpy, the operator of a now-shuttered BitTorrent file-sharing hub that was sued for copyright infringement by the Motion Picture Association of America, has filed an appeal of the $111 million in damages it was ordered by a judge to pay the studios, CNET News.com reported. TorrentSpy was ordered by the judge in the case to turn over records on all of its U.S. users to the court; rather than comply, the site shut off access to U.S. users -- but ultimately decided to voluntarily shut the service down entirely during the course of the court proceedings.

San Francisco - According to court documents from the studios' copyright case against file-sharing site TorrentSpy, the Motion Picture Association of America sought information from a hacker on Sweden-based file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, CNET News.com reported.

Los Angeles - TorrentSpy, the BitTorrent tracker that was ordered by a federal judge this week to pay the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) $111 million in copyright infringement damages, has filed for bankruptcy protection in England and will not pay up, the company's attorney, Ira Rothken, told Wired.com.

Los Angeles - TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent tracker site that lost a copyright infringement suit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) last year, has been ordered by a federal judge to pay a massive $110 million in damages. "This substantial money judgment sends a strong message about the illegality of these sites," said Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the MPAA. "The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios and demonstrates that such pirate sites will not be allowed to continue to operate without facing relentless litigation by copyright holders."

Los Angeles - TorrentSpy, a site that indexed files available for download from the BitTorrent file-sharing network, and was the target of a lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has permanently closed down the site for all visitors worldwide, TorrentFreak reported.

Los Angeles - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) member studios in their copyright infringement suits against BitTorrent index TorrentSpy.com, taking the extraordinary step of terminating the case after finding that TorrentSpy had intentionally destroyed evidence. The case will now proceed directly to the phase where damages are considered, although CNET News.com reports that TorrentSpy will appeal the decision.

San Francisco - The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has asked a federal judge to rule that the movie files linked to through BitTorrent search engine TorrentSpy infringe their copyrights, and also that the site has no "substantial noninfringing uses," CNET News.com reported.

San Francisco - TorrentSpy.com, the self-proclaimed "largest BitTorrent search engine," has shut off its site to U.S. users in the face of a copyright infringement lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), CNET News.com reported.

Los Angeles - The pilot episodes from several upcoming TV series -- including NBC's "Bionic Woman" and Fox's "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" -- have been leaked onto Internet file-sharing networks, TVWeek.com reported.

San Francisco - TorrentSpy, a search engine that provides links to media files available for download on the BitTorrent file-sharing network, and is defending against a copyright lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has announced plans to implement a filter to weed out copyrighted content, CNET News.com reported.

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."

Los Angeles - TorrentSpy, a search engine that provides links to sites that track files available for download on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network, has been ordered by a judge to turn over information on visitors to its site stored on its servers' RAM memory, CNET News.com reported.