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MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy 448

goldaryn writes "Valence Media, the parent company of Torrentspy.com, one of the web's largest torrent search engines, has filed a lawsuit against the MPAA for allegedly hiring a hacker to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets. From the suit: 'The Motion Picture Association of America willfully and intentionally obtained without authority, conspired to obtain without authority, purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it knew was unlawfully obtained through unauthorized access to Plaintiffs' computer servers and private email accounts, in violation of United States and California privacy and computer security laws.'"
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Hmmmm, It SAID I have 5 points to mod with and now there are none and i can;t mod. It never went past the 3 day period. Weird. Anyway, at least I am metamodding. :/
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Hey Cool!
I just got "mod" on Slashdot!
Whatever that means. I have kinda tried to look and see what exactly that meant before, but I guess I was too lazy to stick with the search. I just read the Faq and I understand it alot more. I am just gonna mill around and see if i can figure it all out. (And maybe look for information more earnestly now. Slashdot is just about my sole source of new lol.

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