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What does TorrentSpy have to hide? [Copyfight]December 18th, 2007 at 10:35 pmSource:Valleywag Apparently someone told Joseph Smarr, Plaxo’s chief platform architect, that he’s a “rock star.” Joseph, Joseph, Joseph. They were referring to your programming skills. Smarr does have the rock-and-roll look down, if not the sound. Here’s a pic of him striking a hot pose.
After TorrentSpy’s operators directory headings and forum posts, withholding names of moderators, and concealing IP addresses of users, the Los Angeles court slammed the site with a $30,000 fine and found it guilty of the copyright charges, saying its actions made a fair trial impossible. Founder Justin Bunnell plans to appeal the ruling, saying, “It’s not like they proved that TorrentSpy infringed copyright.” True enough. But TorrentSpy’s data-deletion rampage meant that the MPAA didn’t even have to.
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It’s always the coverup, never the crime. The popular BitTorrent-indexing site TorrentSpy.com, which helps users find shared “torrent” files to download, sabotaged its chances of escaping from a legal tangle with the Motion Picture Association of America. TorrentSpy had beensued by the MPAA in February 2006 for copyright infringement. The Los Angeles District Court asked it to start 
