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SecurityProNews.com reports that Valence Media, parent company of TorrentSpy.com had sued Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) over allegations that it hired a hacker in order to steal private information from them.

MPAA paid $15,000 to an unnamed individual who hacked into their system to collect information on TorrentSpy for his employer, said Valence Media through it’s attorneys.

TorrentSpy is among the most popular BitTorrent index or torrent search engine. It provides links to torrents hosted and tracked on other sites, a forum for comments on them, as well as a measure of how ‘healthy’ the torrents are. As of 2005, the site has over 100,000 user submitted torrents indexed, and has over one million users.

In February 2006, the MPAA filed lawsuits against Torrentspy, Isohunt, and others for “abusing technology to facilitate infringement of copyrighted works.

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