IsoHunt Petitions Canadian Court For Copyright Blessing

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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Paralyzed

[Ostracus]

"It's not the method that's illegal in the case of P2P, it's the content, for certain values of content. There's nothing illegal about Bittorrent itself."

Does the same apply to the variants that hide the payload as well as who's on either end?

Re:The law has it all wrong.

[Intrinsic]

Its selfish to have any expectation of return when you create something that the world finds valuable. your fans, or people who value your work get to decide how its going to be valuable to them, and they do that with their actions. If you are someone that cares about the interests of others, and that shows though your work and how you present that work then people will likely feel a desire to compensate you. But when you expect something in return, without trusting people to make that determination themselves, you end up pissing people off and forcing them to act against you. all Im saying that content holders need to take some responsibility for people copying their works. I dont think thats much to ask. And when you go around blaming other people because you are loosing money, its that just makes people more likely to fuck with you even more. There is a reason why people do what they do. When you look at the reasons behind it you will find that it takes two to tango.