In February 2006 the MPAA threatened to sue not only isoHunt and the now-defunct TorrentSpy, but also a trio of Usenet indexing sites. After initially promising a war with the MPAA, one of them, BinNews, later caved in and agreed to pay the MPAA $15 million in damages. Interestingly, and in the wake of the NZBMatrix shutdown, it now turns out that BinNews was operated by one of today’s most prominent Usenet anti-piracy bosses.