MPAA files lawsuits against torrent, eDonkey and newsgroup sites

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced that is filed another wave of lawsuits against file trading sites to "shut down major pirate networks." Among the targeted sites are Torrentspy.com, Isohunt.com, BTHub.com, NiteShadow.com and TorrentBox, which the MPAA claims to offer more than 300,000 content items. Torrentspy alone provides access to 27,182 movies, 21,130 TV shows and over 45,000 music items, the MPAA said.

Suits were also filed against eDonkey site Ed2k-It.com as well as the newsgroup operators NZB-Zone.com, BinNews.com and DVDRs.net.

It is apparent that the MPAA get increasingly aggressive in going after especially torrent and eDonkey websites. Last week, the torrent site Dikkedonder was shut down ; on Monday, Razorback2, which the MPAA had described as the leading eDonkey server, was taken offline. "Website operators who abuse technology to facilitate infringements of copyrighted works by millions of people are not anonymous - they can and will be stopped," said John Malcolm, executive vice president and director of worldwide anti-piracy operations for the MPAA.

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