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So what? He's not forced to use it. Many game developers don't.

Also, it's not like a pirated copy of x-plane can't easily be obtained elsewhere. There is really no point of using this form of DRM now. It's only an hindrance to the developer (because he's getting sued) and to the people who actually purchase his game, not to the actual people downloading his game through filesharing.

The most-targeted domains? filestube.com, downloads.nl, isohunt.com, and torrenthound.com.

Two search engines and two torrent sites that don't host any files?
Is that what the DMCA is supposed to be used for?

Isohunt has put up a post discussing the matter

What's missing on Google's DMCA notices report? Youtube. The by far largest video content website in the world ought to have very high volume of DMCA notices, if not the most, and it's inconspicuously missing from the list. To downrank and censor any website that's not Google's that receives a high number of DMCA notices? Sounds exactly like antitrust to me.

Despite his lack of proofreading, he manages to make several other valid points.

Here come the false equivalencies getting +5 in a matter of hours, too.
If you're in America, see if any of these sites are blocked
http://thepiratebay.se/
http://www.mininova.org/
http://isohunt.com/
http://www.demonoid.me/
http://www.torrentreactor.net/
No? Then your claim that "in america posts of copyrighted music are swept from the internet within hours" is false.

And the audacity of equating people who want to assemble and find redress with their local governments with those who want to get free mp3s. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this sad joke of a comparison. You'll only find naivete like this in the West. If you want to make some accurate comparisons, talk about police brutality in both countries, or maybe talk about Assange if he's ever extradited. In the meantime, get some perspective.

I couldn't possibly find another site to replace it.

Ok, I'll link.

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/371429905/the+police+flac?tab=summary

Just about any Police song with Stuart Copeland on the drums, which is nearly every Police song, which is why I referenced The Police in my earlier message. The song I quoted at the end is a good example.

Any time you've got a percussionist like Stuart who is in love with clanging metal (hi-hat, cymbals, glockenspiel, triangles, chimes, etc), you're going to have a lot of high-frequency harmonics that MP3 encoders fuck up every time. Indeed, I cannot point to a single song that I have that has high-frequency stuff in it that the encoder has not fucked up at 256Kbps and below.

I cannot describe the distortion outside of using the word "swishy."

A curious song that does not have clanging metal that MP3 encoders fuck up is "Sad To See The Season Go" by Cowboy Junkies. Encoders have problems with Margo Timmins' and her backup singers' voices on this song as they are nearly in phase and on the same frequency. I have yet to see an MP3 that has not fucked up the harmony at 192. The MP3 algorithm was tuned to the human voice (in particular Suzanne Vega's voice). There is something about this song that plays havoc with the algorithm.

--
BMO

You mean this documentary.
Thank goodness we have piracy....

While I'm disappointed to see btjunkie go, at least they're (seemingly) closing voluntarily; not smashed up by a militarized police squad.

In response to your question...

Torrentz matches btJunkie's characteristics and features better than any other site I could name. Torrentz: Public, non-US, meta-search/aggregator, full HTTPS, tracker validation/display/uTorrent-formatted list d/l, category tags scraped from source sites, configurable "home page," and user-initiated account deletion.

Below are all of the the .torrent sites I use which are both encrypted and public:

• https://eztv.it/

          Prompt and fast English-language TV shows.

• https://isohunt.com/

          Simplistic, low-frills meta-search.

• https://thepiratebay.se/

          A honeypot for IP-profiteers... A pot o' honey for cultural buccaneers.

• https://www.kat.ph/

          KickassTorrents, an aptly named site. Voluminous metadata and effective presentation.

• https://torrentz.eu/

          A good alternative to btjunkie. =)

I hope this is helpful, and I hope that you seed, UL>DL.

isnt pirate bay been watch or something

While I'm disappointed to see btjunkie go, at least they're (seemingly) closing voluntarily; not smashed up by a militarized police squad.

In response to your question...

Torrentz matches btJunkie's characteristics and features better than any other site I could name. Torrentz: Public, non-US, meta-search/aggregator, full HTTPS, tracker validation/display/uTorrent-formatted list d/l, category tags scraped from source sites, configurable "home page," and user-initiated account deletion.

Below are all of the the .torrent sites I use which are both encrypted and public:

• https://eztv.it/
          Prompt and fast English-language TV shows.

• https://isohunt.com/
          Simplistic, low-frills meta-search.

• https://thepiratebay.se/
          A honeypot for IP-profiteers... A pot o' honey for cultural buccaneers.

• https://www.kat.ph/
          KickassTorrents, an aptly named site. Voluminous metadata and effective presentation.

• https://torrentz.eu/
          A good alternative to btjunkie. =)

I hope this is helpful, and I hope that you seed, UL>DL.

Here are a few more https torrent sites I use:

https://eztv.it/
https://btjunkie.org/
https://torrentz.eu/
https://www.demonoid.me/
https://isohunt.com/

They're spying on something.

Oh and by the by... Quantum Computers + wiretapping = http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=sneakers.

Inside Job torrent

To construct the map, the standard assumption that red shift is proportional to distance was made. However, a growing body of observational evidence indicates that there are further sources of red shift not related to distance. This implies that the map must be wrong since it is based on an incomplete interpretation of red shift measurements.

For a good documentary where the mentioned growing body of evidence is being discussed by astronomers and astrophysicists see "The Universe - Cosmology Quest". A torrent can be found here for example.

You are right. And if Limewire had advertised their product as a way to download music and videos that are in the public domain or otherwise legally downloadable, they likely would have won the court case. But they didn't do that. Similarly, don't expect MusicFrost to survive for long if they ever manage to make money worth suing for. Their website is clearly encouraging infringement. Compare that website to the new isohunt website (it is different outside the US), which has been designed specifically to avoid encouraging infringement. Isohunt will probably survive.

This is the Google homepage:
http://www.google.com/
It has no mention of any particular search terms at all, let alone intent.

This is the IsoHunt homepage:
http://isohunt.com/
It mentions the last 10 searches - which aren't exactly searches for Linux distributions - and what's that in the top right? Oh! How lovely, I can click through to the latest Video, TV, Game, etc. releases. What's more - I can add a release!

Even if I search for "Toy Story 3", these are Google's first page results (I'm logged out, so no personalized search):

• Toy Story 3 official website
• Toy Story 3 at imdb
• Toy Story 3 at wikipedia
• News results for Toy Story 3
• Videos for Toy Story 3 (Trailer 2 at YouTube and Trailer at Apple)
• Toy Story 3 Movie Reviews, etc. at Rotten Tomatoes
• Toy Story 3 Movie trailers at Apple
• Amazon.com: Toy Story 3
• Toy Story 3 official site in the UK
• Toy Story 3 at Pixar
• Toy Story 3 at Coming Soon.

Now let's try that at IsoHunt.

• Toy Story 3 720p TC XviD AC3-KiNGDOM (Kingdom-Release)
• Toy Story 3 (2010) DVDRip (animation) XviD - OPTiC
• Toy Story 3 (2010) - DVDRip XviD - Silent
• Toy.Story.3.2010.PROPER.DVDRip.XviD-TASTE
• Toy Story 3.2010.CAM.XVID.LU
• Toy Story 3 (2010) - English DvDRip XviD - PrisM
• Toy Story 3 2010 BDRip XViD-IMAGiNE
• Toy Story 3 2010 720p BRRip x264-HDLiTE
• Toy.Story.3-RELOADED
• 2010]DVDRip[Xvid]AC3 1[E... Toy Story Trilogy

"But, AC," you say, "if you add filetype:torrent in the Google search, then you'll also get a bunch of these types of results".
Well no shit - that's partially the point though, isn't it? With Google, I have to explicitly tell the search engine that I'm looking for something a little more specific, generally associated with copies/rips/cams of whatever I'm looking for. With IsoHunt, I don't have to.
It may seem like an insignificant difference, but to the courts in various jurisdictions, all of these 'insignificant' differences add up to intent.

Anybody trying to argue that there's no difference between sites like IsoHunt and Google - either philosophical or technical - needs to be hit over the head by a clue-by-four and some sense of reality.

But here's to hoping that the judge finds they have a strong case and either the industry has to back off from these sites and we can all do the Information wants to Free-as-in-beer dance, or the industry will just have to poke at Google and get a deal from them (already happened for YouTube anyway) and then eye these sites again for further lawsuits demanding either a deal or shutdown.

Here's some reality for you.

Don't worry. That Cowboys playbook would never leak to the internet. Never ever.

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/96717281/The+Playbook+pdf?tab=summary

There may be more to it than that. This changed my anxiety ridden life. http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/94461017/social+anxiety?tab=summary ....try before you buy it for $260 http://www.socialanxietyinstitute.org/audioseries.html

The real benchmark between browsers should be the time taken to perform a search on a site like isoHunt. The Flash adds alone are an IE8 killer even on a Core2duo, and I'm sure they'll only get worse.

Why is I when I read "content freedom", I have a feeling you mean your ability to copy movies from torrent and avoid having to pay anyone for the huge investment and hard work they put into making movies.

You mean like everybody who wanted to has been doing for how long now?

The pirates don't care. Blu-Ray rips have been available for a long time now. This is news for people who want to play the discs they bought on hardware/software that wasn't blessed by the MAFIAA.

We are stuck on PowerPC because of an old PowerPC only application, that all of our data is in

You should take a look at PPC emulators for x86. I've actually been playing with SheepShaver on my Windows box and it emulates a PPC well enough on my core 2 duo that I was able to pack up my old PPC Mac systems and run the software I need in there. I'm running Mac OS 9.2.2 though...I have no clue how well it would run OS X. IIRC PearPC was supposed to be better at running OS X when I was reading up on it.

It was a bit of a pain to get it setup initially. The Windows version of the emulator is available here. You also need a working Mac OS ROM image, which you have to find online or dump from one of your PPC Mac systems. There's an excellent torrent available called "Mac Emulation Kit" which contains a lot of good files you might want to get started.

I've also had good luck finding free games. This isoHunt site that I found has tons of them!

Despite rumors that we are ordered to filter by keywords for the US, there's only a proposed order, no actual order.

The isoHunt announcement is dated April 5 Annonucements. The permanent injunction was filed May 20th. isoHunt Permanent Injunction

The court had this to say about its right to act:

The Court further clarifies that this injunction covers any acts
of direct infringement, as defined in 17 U.S.C. 106, that take place
in the United States. To the extent that an act of reproducing,
copying, distributing, performing, or displaying takes place in the
United States, it may violate 17 U.S.C. 106, subject to the generally
applicable requirements and defenses of the Copyright Act.

As
explained in the Court's December 23, 2009 Order, "United States
copyright law does not require that both parties be located in the
United States. Rather, the acts of uploading and downloading are each
independent grounds of copyright infringement liability." Summary
Judgment Order at 19. Each download or upload of Plaintiffs'
copyrighted material violates Plaintiffs' copyrights if even a single
United States-based user is involved in the "swarm" process of
distributing, transmitting, or receiving a portion of a computer file
containing Plaintiffs' copyrighted content.

Doesn't the latter mean that whichever party is in the US falls under US law? The only party in the US is the (american) user of isohunt. I don't see how this refutes the argument that isohunt is in Canada and can subsequently ignore this order. What I do see is that the american isohunt user is now potentially in trouble (ie. if some copyright holder can prove this user downloaded torrents from isohunt, this order will make it easier on them).

Despite rumors that we are ordered to filter by keywords for the US, there's only a proposed order, no actual order.

The isoHunt announcement is dated April 5 Annonucements. The permanent injunction was filed May 20th. isoHunt Permanent Injunction

The court had this to say about its right to act:

The Court further clarifies that this injunction covers any acts
of direct infringement, as defined in 17 U.S.C. 106, that take place
in the United States. To the extent that an act of reproducing,
copying, distributing, performing, or displaying takes place in the
United States, it may violate 17 U.S.C. 106, subject to the generally
applicable requirements and defenses of the Copyright Act.

As
explained in the Court's December 23, 2009 Order, "United States
copyright law does not require that both parties be located in the
United States. Rather, the acts of uploading and downloading are each
independent grounds of copyright infringement liability." Summary
Judgment Order at 19. Each download or upload of Plaintiffs'
copyrighted material violates Plaintiffs' copyrights if even a single
United States-based user is involved in the "swarm" process of
distributing, transmitting, or receiving a portion of a computer file
containing Plaintiffs' copyrighted content.

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/147595161/%22peopleware%22?tab=summary

I realize Canada is a party to the Berne Convention, but what does a US Judge have to do with a site run entirely in Canada?

On a side note, the original judgement against them was the categorized system in which users access torrents, specifically that it had sections for movies, music and such that could be browsed without a search input. They have been working on a "lite" version of the site that removes all the functionality that the MPAA complained about and are hoping to present it as a way to stay in operation and still satisfy the courts.

http://isohunt.com/lite/

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/157668381/assassins+creed?tab=summary

disagrees with you.

For example you still cant download Assassins Creed II and it has been out for almost an month already.

Really? Isohunt search seems to disagree. In fact the torrent seems to be 3 weeks old. The "official" torrent for the crack has been up for 6 weeks. The crack's also up at GameFix.

So... what are you talking about?

http://isohunt.com/torrents/top+gear?iht=-1&ihp=1&ihs1=2&iho1=d

ACTA is basically saying "We got the DMCA in the USA, so why don't you write a similar law where you are... or we're going to raise the price of our content to the point we break your economy!"

Empty threat, as anyone who wants the content but doesn't want to pay can already get it for free from isohunt. And even if they couldn't, do you really think that people would get themselves bankcrupt over entertainment?

Are you sure?
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/147160293/barbie+horse+adventures?tab=summary

My wife has pretty much the entire animated Disney collection from before 2004 on VHS. A lot of good they do us seeing as we no longer own a working VCR. If we want our kids to see these movies we'll have to re-buy them on the popular format of the day when our kids are old enough to watch them.

Not true.

Now, I don't suggest that you download this torrent, as taking steps to keep watching movies you've already bought would clearly be illegal. I'm simply saying that you don't have to rebuy them to keep watching them.

It's such a horrible temptation to not be good little citizen and keep paying a company over and over and over again for the same content, isn't it? I mean, they paid good money to get copyright extended ad infinitum and make form-shifting illegal, no? So you'd be eeeevil to not fork over cash to them again for things you've already bought, no?

http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=star+wars+christmas

Not quite, old bean.

Try searching ISOHunt for Star Wars Holiday - I'm downloading the DVD now!

http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=star+wars+christmas

I use a combination of http://isohunt.com/ and http://www.nyaatorrents.org/

If anyone is interested, I've seeded this idea on the: isoHunt Forums as well. It got off to a rocky start there but it is a specialized community well suited to developing this stance.

Also, the very first place I posted this stance began in this: This article over on ArsTechnica. I've also sent emails to The Pirate Bay and TorrentFreak to continue to sow the seeds of discontent.

Other gaming companies are embracing the idea of open source and digital distribution, for example: Catalyst Game Labs. More importantly, their open source release of Eclipse Phase, and perhaps even unofficial support for the fan-made MegaMek/MekWars for their Battletech line.

Meanwhile companies like WizKids and Games Workshop continue to show their complete disdain for their customers and the fans of their products as well as their utter inability to properly market their games. Which is especially evidenced by the utter failure of WizKids' "Mech Clix" line for Battletech, and arguably evidenced by Games Workshops' constant price increases for Warhammer 40k; Catalyst seems to be going in completely the opposite direction - embracing digital distribution and open source in ways essentially unheard of in this day and age.

Yeah it's a pretty stupid ruling, coming down from people who have no clue.

Also, this incident happened yesterday October 14th in the UK.

1. The actual Surrogates movie has been out on p2p for at least the last two weeks (probably more).

2. The UK *always* gets their movies after we do (British movies excepted, but here I'm just talking about the movies people actually want to watch). It saves on the reproduction cost of the reels. The extra reels that we use during the opening week(s) in the US are then sent to the UK for re-use. This basically ensures that the movie will be out for weeks on p2p before the first opening night in the UK.

Try btjunkie.org

A quick shoutout for a local (To me) guy: http://isohunt.com/

I remember reading an interesting book called "The Science of Star Wars" [...] I don't have access to it at the moment [...]

Sure you do.

http://isohunt.com/download/108285077/dd12ed066307ba3cdfa2c6a68f78e3b85daa656b.torrent

No not really, not at all actually. Corporate copyright holders have held a gun at the heads of a few threatening that anybody that does the same will be made an example of. This is not even remotely close to my bank example. They can't stop the methods because it would take an insane amount of restriction and surveillance, so they try the scare tactics. If the method was adapted to reality we wouldn't have had this discussion to begin with.

Also you know very damn well that people object to the fact that they are forced to be monitored just so that nobody shares files. This is a pretty big sacrifice we make for the entertainment industry and you seem to think that people brought it on themselves. Perhaps they did, but perhaps the entertainment industry did as well. Whatever methods are used today are completely useless, and to defend them isn't doing the entertainment industry nor their consumers any good. Nobody thinks music artists should be poor, at least nobody that enjoys music, since nobody would produce music if reality was as such. But the current structure is not the only possible one, and I'm damn sure that even the entertainment industry will abandon this fools errand sooner or later. Right now you're one of the responsible for keeping this natural transition at halt.

Here it is, as you asked so nicely.

This is not an April Fool's joke. This is real AND no one can remove shit like this from the internet.
The cat is far out of the bag.

The movie is still available on most major torrent sites.
IsoHunt
TPB

Referring to the post on http://isohunt.com/ Quote: File sharers share different kinds of content. We can divide these different kinds into four types. A. There are some who use sharing networks as substitutes for purchasing content. Thus, when a new Madonna CD is released, rather than buying the CD, these users simply take it. We might quibble about whether everyone who takes it would actually have bought it if sharing didn't make it available for free. Most probably wouldn't have, but clearly there are some who would. The latter are the target of category A: users who download instead of purchasing. B. There are some who use sharing networks to sample music before purchasing it. Thus, a friend sends another friend an MP3 of an artist he's not heard of. The other friend then buys CDs by that artist. This is a kind of targeted advertising, quite likely to succeed. If the friend recommending the album gains nothing from a bad recommendation, then one could expect that the recommendations will actually be quite good. The net effect of this sharing could increase the quantity of music purchased. C. There are many who use sharing networks to get access to copyrighted content that is no longer sold or that they would not have purchased because the transaction costs off the Net are too high. This use of sharing networks is among the most rewarding for many. Songs that were part of your childhood but have long vanished from the marketplace magically appear again on the network. (One friend told me that when she discovered Napster, she spent a solid weekend "recalling" old songs. She was astonished at the range and mix of content that was available.) For content not sold, this is still technically a violation of copyright, though because the copyright owner is not selling the content anymore, the economic harm is zero--the same harm that occurs when I sell my collection of 1960s 45-rpm records to a local collector. D. Finally, there are many who use sharing networks to get access to content that is not copyrighted or that the copyright owner wants to give away. And based on comments here and elsewhere, one I'm reminded I've heard before, I venture to add a 5th case: UPDATED wrote: E. Those who use sharing networks to download what they already bought in another digital form. Aka. format shifting, for various reasons including DRM or for backup purposes. Examples include: End Quote So, group B are also so called pirates because they copy copyrighted material without authorization. However, I doubt any company would complain about such essentially free advertising. Therefore, morally they are not doing anything wrong and nobody would really start a lawsuit against them. The right to sample before buying is important. Many times people buy songs, movies, games that they cannot preview or if they can preview they are not really given the true taste of the product but a false teaser. So they are hustled into paying for something that end of not liking. How much money have you spent on movies you did not like? Even going to cinema does not guarantee a good movie. Sure there are differences in taste but sometimes even cinemas show movies that 99% of the audience will agree are meaningless and provided no pleasure. Why let others con you into giving them your money for making something that is not worth the money? I know many people who first watch a movie and then pay for it. They first play a game and then pay for it. Is this illegal? Most definitely it is, but is it immoral? I would say most defintitely it is NOT because it gives you choice and disables con artists from making something that has no substance, flashing it around with marketing and then conning you into giving them over you hard earnt money so that they can get rich without really having any talents but being tricksters. Group C could really be divided into 2 groups - those who download content that is no longer available for sale and those who download because the purchase cost is too high. Again, if you download

Just a quick thought,

Copyrights can only be applied to goods, I believe, right? If this is the case, then why is IP of this nature even copyrighted to begin with?

It would, in my eyes, seem to be more of a service than anything. By purchasing a legal copy of a movie online to download, I'm receiving nothing physical for what I payed for. It's not a good.
  I am, however, being provided with the service of entertainment.

Can services be copyrighted?

If I were to go down the street, find a street performer and start to copy him (See: Eurotrip, silver "robot"), and other people were to start paying me, would that be considered copyright infringement? Can he copyright his "act" to begin with?

Maybe I misunderstand something, but this seems messed up to begin with...

>>>will stop things like records spreading onto P2P networks.

Right because the government has never, ever accidentally let private information leak out ("Congressional worker has laptop stolen)." They government has never, ever let anyone have access to my social security number ("State website published millions of SS numbers online"). We can trust the government to keep our stuff secure ("Our records show you were unemployed in 2003." "How do you know that?" "We just called the IRS; they reported your income was near-zero.")

An inperfect but well designed system is miles better than the current system.

Go watch GATTACA if you believe having our medical records available to any doctor who asks is such a great idea. With public sharing of formerly-private data, companies can discriminate against unhealthy persons whenever they desire. Here's a link: http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/39287978/GATTACA?tab=summary

Go watch people die when a doctor doesn't have a full medical record when treating a patient.Wow a sci-fi film must obviously have taken a lot more time to do a cost benifit analysis of the situation, and come to a much better conclusion about what would really happen, than an actual analysis of the situation.

It's bad enough I have a credit score attached to my name, along with how much debt I owe, with which employers can decide to hire or not hire me. Now they'll learn about my heart condition, and in order to reduce medical costs, decide to skip-over me and give the job to someone else.

This idea is all kinds of bad.

Erm when did the medical records become public information? Having a system where a doctor (when authorized), can access your medical records (when needed ( with proper punishment when its abused)), is very different from given everybody full access to your medical records.

>>>will stop things like records spreading onto P2P networks.

Right because the government has never, ever accidentally let private information leak out ("Congressional worker has laptop stolen)." They government has never, ever let anyone have access to my social security number ("State website published millions of SS numbers online"). We can trust the government to keep our stuff secure ("Our records show you were unemployed in 2003." "How do you know that?" "We just called the IRS; they reported your income was near-zero.")

Go watch GATTACA if you believe having our medical records available to any doctor who asks is such a great idea. With public sharing of formerly-private data, companies can discriminate against unhealthy persons whenever they desire. Here's a link: http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/39287978/GATTACA?tab=summary

It's bad enough I have a credit score attached to my name, along with how much debt I owe, with which employers can decide to hire or not hire me. Now they'll learn about my heart condition, and in order to reduce medical costs, decide to skip-over me and give the job to someone else.

This idea is all kinds of bad.

Get it here.

Just to straighten things out a bit, I recommend you try a few of these games:

FPSes:

• Nexuiz
• OpenArena
• Tremulous
• Warsow
• Sauerbraten
• Alien Arena

Strategy (mixing real-time and turn-based):

• Battle for Wesnoth
• FreeCiv
• bos
• boson

Others:

• xmoto
• Frets on Fire
• Supertux
• Cowsay
• mu-cade, noiz2sa and `apt-cache search kenta cho`

Those are all packages I found with a quick `aptitude search "~i~sGames"; that is, these are games that are packaged and trivially easy to install straight out of the box.

You can of course also install wine and create bottles for Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo II if you have those games [or you can buy them at blizzard.com], among many others (so I hear).

Or you can install DosBox and play your old dos games (One Must Fall is the win). Or you can install uae (Amiga), vice (Commodore: Pets, VIC-20, 64, 128, CBM-II, PLUS/4), pscx (PlayStation), xmess (Atari 400/800/2600, Lynx, NES, SNES, GameBoy, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive) or mame. Apologies to all emulators that I left out.

I'm not saying that Linux is just as great a gaming OS as windows. But claiming that there are next to no good games that are runnable on linux is simply being uninformed. And the cowsay bit, that was just making fun ;)

since when does isohunt brag about providing illegal, copyrighted works on it?

try "linux" http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=linux wow i didn't know a version of linux had had over 10,000 seeders (parsix, linux by name)

okay not a fan of formatting and installing, how about a vmware appliance http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=vmware+appliance

yeah, isohunt suggests that you get full iso images, but what full iso images? of copyrighted contet? or of gnu linux isos?