MPAA sues newsgroup, P2P search sites

Well, it’s beginning to happen. The death of torrent sites helping to track illegal torrents is imminent. Gee, wonder how long it will take before the MPAA just gives up and finds a way to meet people in the middle?

The lawsuits mark an expansion of the copyright holders’ legal strategy in the file-swapping world, targeting sites that help make downloading easier, but aren’t actually delivering the files or the swapping technology themselves.

It’s also the first time the group has sued organizations that direct their members to the Usenet newsgroup system, an MPAA spokeswoman said. The movie group makes little distinction between a peer-to-peer network and the search engines that point to pirated works, saying that all facilitate the distribution of copyright works. [Read the rest]

[tags]torrents,mpaa,copyright holder,usenet,newsgroup[/tags]