'Grand Theft Auto' zooms to record opening-week $ Despite the controversy that swirls around it, or maybe as a result of it, “Grand Theft Auto IV” is selling like gangbusters. First-week sales of the violent video game that invites users to play a drug runner who shoot cops topped $500 million, making it one of the biggest debuts in entertainment history. That’s $200 million more for the Take-Two Interactive Software game than last year’s “Halo 3,” which brought in $300 million in its first week for Microsoft. In fact, “GTA IV,” which is made by Take-Two’s Rockstar studio, is proving more popular than Hollywood’s biggest film debut. Last year’s "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" brought in $406 million globally in its first week of release. No doubt controversy has helped push up the game’s take. Earlier this week, Take-Two filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Transit Authority after it removed ads from its buses among other spots following criticism by a local TV station about the game, which contains hidden sex scenes as well as brutal violence.   Judge knuckles down on file-sharing site TorrentSpy Illegally sharing TV shows and movies online may seem cheap in the short term, but in the longer term it can be expensive. Just ask the beleaguered file-sharing Web site TorrentSpy.com. A $111 million judgment for copyright infringement has been awarded to the six major Hollywood studios in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against the web site, which is no longer in operation. Parent Valence Media says the legal climate was making it impossible to continue so it shut the site down March 24. “We spent the last two years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, defending the rights of our users and ourselves,” the web site says. This week’s judgment fines Valence for some 3,700 illegal TV show and film downloads at $30,000 a pop. Valence’s lawyers are asking for a stay on the judgment because the company has filed for bankruptcy in the United Kingdom, and Valence says it plans to appeal the judgment. Meantime, the Motion Picture Association of America says it hopes the judgment will send a strong message to copyright violators.   Study: Facebook users let employers see profiles These days many job applicants are happy to supply potential employers with the standard cover letter and resume, in addition to a link to their Facebook page. About half of Facebook users in Canada don’t have a problem letting their employer view their online profile, according to a report from ZINC Research and Dufferin Research, while 40 percent would consider letting a potential employer view their profile in addition to their resume. The report says employers should recognize the fact that young people are using Facebook as a communication and networking tool, and that working the site into a company’s attraction and retention strategy will only help business. Facebook is the social network of choice in Canada, with 80 percent of social network users in the country preferring it over competitors like MySpace or Bebo. Almost 90 percent of adults 18-34 in Canada are members of the social networking site.   Online delivers: Papa John's hits $1B in web sales Americans are either getting very resourceful or very lazy. Papa John's said yesterday that the company has surpassed $1 billion in online pizza sales since it began taking online orders in 2001. The third-largest pizza delivery chain in the U.S. said its online sales have more than doubled each year for the past seven years. In 2007, Papa John’s online pizza orders that came in via computer or text message were near $400 million compared with $20.4 million in 2001. At the current rate of growth, the company predicts it will take less than three years for the pizza maker to hit its next billion in sales. But Papa John’s isn’t the only one cashing in on the online ordering trend. Pizza Hut, which also takes orders via text message, says in the past three years its online orders have risen sixfold. And Dominos Pizza now lets customers track the progress of their pie online as well as order from cell phones with internet.