In Columbia Pictures v. Bunnell No. 2:06-cv-01093 FMC-JCx., the motion picture studios walk away with a $111 million judgment for copyright infringement against the now defunct file-sharing web site TorrentSpy.com.  The judgment, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, fined Valence Media, LLC, the web site operator, $30,000 per violation for over 3,400 movie and tv show downloads.  Valance has reportedly filed for bankruptcy protection in the United Kingdom and is seeking to stay the judgment.

In an earlier ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Florence Cooper, affirming the Magistrate Judge's ruling, held that a computer's random access memory (RAM) constituted electronically stored information and was discoverable. (245 F.R.D. 445 (C.D. Cal. 2007).