Tags: Bittorrent, Digital Media, Internet, MPAA, P2P, Piracy, torrentspy

TorrentSpy.com told to pay $111 million to media companies

Motion Picture Association of America has now won a major lawsuit against the torrent search engine service TorrentSpy.com.

Incidentally, TorrentSpy has already closed their operations.

The service has been told to pay $30,000 per violation for nearly 3,700 illegal movies and TV show downloads.

MPAA said that this judgment would send a strong signal to copyright violators.

TorrentSpy had stopped operating earlier this year as they said that the legal hassles were becoming too hard for them to continue with the service.

Strangely enough, the service just used to provide access to torrent files and had never hosted copyrighted media itself.