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The Motion Picture Association of America has taken Dutch based TorrentSpy to court for facilitating the online exchange of films, music and TV programs without permission. The judge has made a default ruling in support of the Motion Picture Association of America after saying that “the site’s operators had tampered with evidence.”

What makes this interesting is that TorrentSpy ignored instructions to “retain server logs and the unique online addresses of computers which traded files using the BitTorrent program”, which is usually held in the computers RAM; which has potential personal privacy implications surely.

TorrentSpy played the “our servers are in the Netherlands so we are protected by Dutch law” card, but that didn’t seem to work!

To make matters worse the judge really put the boot in when it came to writing up the decision:

“They have engaged in widespread and systematic efforts to destroy evidence and have provided false testimony under oath in a effort to hide evidence of such destruction.”

Via [BBC]