IsoHunt Petitions Canadian Court For Copyright Blessing

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 7, 2008 @11:19AM from the petition-to-the-courts-not-petition-online dept.

A Cow writes "As an act of self-defense, the popular BitTorrent site isoHunt has decided to file a petition to ask the Court of British Columbia to confirm that isoHunt — and sister sites Torrentbox and Podtropolis — do not infringe copyright. isoHunt owner Gary explains to TorrentFreak: 'Our petition summarizes BitTorrent technology, its open nature and a whole ecosystem of websites and operators that has developed around it, that CRIA does not own copyright to all files distributed over BitTorrent or on isoHunt websites, and we seek legal validation that we can continue to innovate within this emerging BitTorrent ecosystem on the Internet.'"

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Re:The law has it all wrong. by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-07 18:01 · Score: -1, Redundant

It's not about getting free stuff you self richeous jack ass. When someone uses your medical records or credit card numbers, they represent you and obtain drugs and money and destroy your identity hurting your ability to live in this interconnected world.
The movie industry want to sue me and take a big pile of money from me and put me in jail if they could... because I watched Ironman and didn't give them $10.
Yea, thats totaly the same thing.