Oops! MPAA lawsuit gives free publicity to torrent site
Found on Ars Technica on Saturday, 19 April 2008
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has hit yet another website over copyright infringement with a new lawsuit. The organization says that Pullmylink.com facilitates copyright infringement by indexing and posting links to what the MPAA believes is pirated content.
The MPAA sued BitTorrent, eDonkey, USENET, and TorrentSpy (among others) for making it easy to find and download copyrighted content, too.
Of course, the MPAA's lawsuit against Pullmylink.com has another effect that the MPAA is fully aware of. People who had no idea Pullmylink.com existed (including me) are now aware of it and what it offers.
It's the job of the MPAA/RIAA to do the PR work, so it is somewhat naturally that they do it for P2P related sites too. They just need to mention a website to make the traffic go up there.