Software Giant, Microsoft Sues BitTorrent Tracker for $43M
Torrent sites and users being sued is anything but new. Every day new legal actions are taken on by large corporations, mainly in the music and movie industry against torrent sites, as well as their users. In recent news, Microsoft sued Lithuanian BitTorrent Site, LinkoManija for $43 Million dollars for supposed illegally torrented versions of Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007. Kestas Ermanas, owner and operator of the BitTorrent site, which is the 3rd most visited site in the country said,
“that Microsoft’s move surprised him, as the company has never sent a torrent takedown request to the popular BitTorrent tracker. We informed them that we wanted to cooperate with them, they just had to give us the links to the infringing torrent files, Kestas said, adding they never wrote back to us.” According to torrent site, TorrentFreak.com
These actions taken on by Microsoft are but one of many of the endless amounts of allegations against torrent sites and users for “illegally” downloading and distributing “copy written material” Its amazing how often and how much a company can sue not only the torrent providers, but the innocent users of the torrent sites for ridiculous amounts of money that have no basis on any kind of facts or statistics on how much the files were even downloaded. Courts need to realize that taking on cases for an inevitable piracy laws are starting to hurt the industries more than they think they are “helping”. And in the end, just making users of the music, movies, software, ect not want to give the multi billion dollar companies more money than they already have to control their industry further.
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