BitTorrent search site hits back

Not appreciating the charges brought against them, Torrentspy hits back with a little fire of their own. And if the movie industry would like to stop piracy, perhaps starting by selling online like we said back with the whole music sharing thing would be a good place to start.

A search engine used to locate links to movie and music files has moved to dismiss legal attempts by the US film industry to sue over copyright.

Lawyers for Torrentspy say the lawsuit is an attempt to make the BitTorrent system itself illegal.

People use BitTorrent as a way of downloading content, often illegally sharing copyrighted material.

Torrentspy says it does not host copyright files and obeys requests to remove links to such material.

BitTorrent has become a widely used online system to get hold of very large video files as the technology is very efficient at splitting up and sharing data.

Use of the technology has proved to be a thorn in the side of the MPAA as it can make it hard to work out who is behind illegal movie sharing. Source: BBC

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