Wired has an exclusive storey today on how Robert Anderson , a hacker who used to work with TorrentSpy ’s laminitis Justin Bunnell , acted as a stool pigeon for the Motion Picture Association of America keep abreast hope of money and magnate :
“ We would need somebody like you . We would give you a nice paying job , a house , a automobile , anything you needed … . if you save Hollywood for us you could become fat and powerful ” offered the MPAA , according to Anderson ’s account of the events . The betrayer , who also admits that he offered to set up an anti - piracy marketing drive for the MPAA , got $ 15,000 from them in exchange of information about TorrentSpy , which include the source code for the site . Anderson alleges that the MPAA wanted to define up a bogus Torrent website :
We ’ll adjust up a fake Torrent situation . We ’ll get through the other Torrent sites . We ’ll get their names , reference Holy Scripture , contact information and banking information … . ( They ) wanted to function this as a darkness destiny of the MPAA .
Meanwhile , the MPAA has not disputed the payment but told Wired that “ the MPAA obtains information from third party only if it believe the grounds has been collected legally . ” They also abnegate the fake Torrent storey . Read Wired ’s tale for yet another avarice drama from Tinseltown , USA . [ Wired ]
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