Any developer working on Hollywood-backed online video services had better watch his back. Apparently, Hollywood treats developers the same way it treats actors: string them along, get what you want, toss them away. That’s why this hacker is betraying his Hollywood masters.
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown’s anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker.
In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells for the first time how the Motion Picture Association of America promised him money and power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search site.
According to Anderson, the MPAA told him: “We would need somebody like you. We would give you a nice paying job, a house, a car, anything you needed…. if you save Hollywood for us you can become rich and powerful.”
Anderson spied on TorrentSpy through a clever email hack. He even obtained TorrentSpy’s backend source code, which the MPAA would allegedly use to set up entrapment sites.
This MPAA is really starting to sound like a criminal organization.
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