Where is isohunt? Where are all the torrent sites going to? isohunt was closed down...
What happened to freedom to Information?
US District Judge orders torrent site IsoHunt to shut down.
The movie business is stinking rich. And they sell their movies at the same high prices even in un developed and developing countries. How are the people of these countries gonna afford such expensive movie tickets or pay for dvds or cds the only other option is torrents.
Torrents help share many types of mostly large files across the internet across the world. Many old movies of no longer available books etc that cannot be purchased due to non availability are shared using torrents.
All the big pirates just keep on toppling. Just a few months after famed torrent site Mininova pulled all illegal torrents and the Pirate Bay lost a landmark case, the founder of popular BitTorrent site IsoHunt, Gary Fung, has been ordered to remove the .torrent files of all infringing content. It could and probably will end IsoHunt.
The decision comes after many years of arguments about IsoHunt’s legality. According to Fung, IsoHunt is just a search engine, albeit one that happens to pick up copyrighted material. Unfortunately, the studios that were suing Hung showed strong evidence that IsoHunt’s search code was actually tuned and designed to find copyrighted material, not exclude it.
Even worse, when movie studios brought in witness showing that a statistical sampling of all content to be found on IsoHunt showed that almost all of the content infringed copyrights and that about half of the downloads were made in the United States, Fung claimed that the findings were” junk science,” but didn’t refute them further.
It doesn’t really seem like he argued his case very well, and US District Judge Stephen wilson was quick to issue the order after issuing a summary judgment against Fung in December. The order essentially shuts down IsoHunt, since it prevents even its basic search function for working, and it is physically impossible for Fung to check each individual torrent by hand.
If you use IsoHunt, it may very well be time to become a fan of a new torrent site. It doesn’t look like IsoHunt is long for this world.
Read more: http://www.geek.com/articles/news/us-district-judge-orders-torrent-site-isohunt-to-shut-down-20100331/#ixzz0kRe6gF7y
TorrentSpy was a popular BitTorrent indexing Web Site. It provided .torrent files, which enabled users to exchange data between one another. It also provided a forum to comment on them and integrated a Digg-like user-driven content site ShoutWire's feed into its front page. In August 2007 there were more than 1,000,000 torrents indexed with thousands of new torrents indexed every day.[1]
The Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit in February 2006 for TorrentSpy facilitating copyright infringement as many torrents on its site were linking to copyrighted films. In December 2007 the court ruled against TorrentSpy for "widespread and systematic efforts to destroy evidence and have provided false testimony under oath in an effort to hide evidence of such destruction."[2] On March 24, 2008 facing further fines for not cooperating with the court, TorrentSpy shut itself down.[3]
On May 7, 2008, a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to pay the Motion Picture Association of America $110 million for alleged infringement of thousands of copyrighted film and TV shows. In a four-page final ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper entered the multimillion-dollar judgement against TorrentSpy parent company Valence Media as terminating sanctions for destroying evidence related to the case. Cooper also issued a permanent injunction against the Web site. "This substantial money judgment sends a strong message about the illegality of these sites," MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said. "The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios." Whether the MPAA will collect the $110 million from TorrentSpy remains to be seen. Court records show that Valence and TorrentSpy principals Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker have filed for bankruptcy.
In February 2006, the MPAA filed lawsuits against Torrentspy, isoHunt, and others for "abusing technology to facilitate infringement of copyrighted works.
US District Judge orders torrent site IsoHunt to shut down.
The movie business is stinking rich. And they sell their movies at the same high prices even in un developed and developing countries. How are the people of these countries gonna afford such expensive movie tickets or pay for dvds or cds the only other option is torrents.
Torrents help share many types of mostly large files across the internet across the world. Many old movies of no longer available books etc that cannot be purchased due to non availability are shared using torrents.
All the big pirates just keep on toppling. Just a few months after famed torrent site Mininova pulled all illegal torrents and the Pirate Bay lost a landmark case, the founder of popular BitTorrent site IsoHunt, Gary Fung, has been ordered to remove the .torrent files of all infringing content. It could and probably will end IsoHunt.
The decision comes after many years of arguments about IsoHunt’s legality. According to Fung, IsoHunt is just a search engine, albeit one that happens to pick up copyrighted material. Unfortunately, the studios that were suing Hung showed strong evidence that IsoHunt’s search code was actually tuned and designed to find copyrighted material, not exclude it.
Even worse, when movie studios brought in witness showing that a statistical sampling of all content to be found on IsoHunt showed that almost all of the content infringed copyrights and that about half of the downloads were made in the United States, Fung claimed that the findings were” junk science,” but didn’t refute them further.
It doesn’t really seem like he argued his case very well, and US District Judge Stephen wilson was quick to issue the order after issuing a summary judgment against Fung in December. The order essentially shuts down IsoHunt, since it prevents even its basic search function for working, and it is physically impossible for Fung to check each individual torrent by hand.
If you use IsoHunt, it may very well be time to become a fan of a new torrent site. It doesn’t look like IsoHunt is long for this world.
Read more: http://www.geek.com/articles/news/us-district-judge-orders-torrent-site-isohunt-to-shut-down-20100331/#ixzz0kRe6gF7y
TorrentSpy was a popular BitTorrent indexing Web Site. It provided .torrent files, which enabled users to exchange data between one another. It also provided a forum to comment on them and integrated a Digg-like user-driven content site ShoutWire's feed into its front page. In August 2007 there were more than 1,000,000 torrents indexed with thousands of new torrents indexed every day.[1]
The Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit in February 2006 for TorrentSpy facilitating copyright infringement as many torrents on its site were linking to copyrighted films. In December 2007 the court ruled against TorrentSpy for "widespread and systematic efforts to destroy evidence and have provided false testimony under oath in an effort to hide evidence of such destruction."[2] On March 24, 2008 facing further fines for not cooperating with the court, TorrentSpy shut itself down.[3]
On May 7, 2008, a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to pay the Motion Picture Association of America $110 million for alleged infringement of thousands of copyrighted film and TV shows. In a four-page final ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper entered the multimillion-dollar judgement against TorrentSpy parent company Valence Media as terminating sanctions for destroying evidence related to the case. Cooper also issued a permanent injunction against the Web site. "This substantial money judgment sends a strong message about the illegality of these sites," MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said. "The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios." Whether the MPAA will collect the $110 million from TorrentSpy remains to be seen. Court records show that Valence and TorrentSpy principals Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker have filed for bankruptcy.
In February 2006, the MPAA filed lawsuits against Torrentspy, isoHunt, and others for "abusing technology to facilitate infringement of copyrighted works.
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