Valence Media, the company which operates TorrentSpy, the file-sharing portal, has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Motion Picture Association of America hired a computer hacker to illegally collect information to use in the copyright suit against the site.
If the lawsuit makes it to court, it will represent one of the largest cases of industrial espionage where a hacker was hired to break into a corporate computer system.
"In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Valence and its owners have filed their own suit claiming that the MPAA, which represents the interests of the U.S. film industry, paid a known hacker to infiltrate the company's IT systems looking for potential evidence.
"According to the suit, filed specifically in the names of Valence executives Justin Bunnell, Forrest Parker and Wes Parker, contends that the MPAA "willfully and intentionally" purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it unlawfully obtained via a break into the company's computing systems."
With the Pellicano Case and now this, it reveals a dark side to the business and personal side of the entertainment industry that may be just beginning to be revealed.
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