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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.'"
"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?
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
and this underage broad "Emma Watson" just comes out of nowhere, and tries to ACT as though she were the true Hermione Granger. Absolute bullshit. I hope ISOhunt validates whether or not that imposter and Emma Watson's library collection of nude photographs of Hermione Granger are authentic or should be removed for copyright validation.
And wouldn't you know it, this counterfeit works for the FBI, with full endorsement to host that crap on ISOhunt. Someone hang these traitors. FBI realy needs to correct their agent Watson, because I think over a third of FBI needs an audit and firing because I'ld have to be naive to think they didn't willfully and voluntarily publish these on ISOhunt. Bastards. Wish I can stay to talk about it, but my window on this wireless AP needs to be closed...Ziggy said I'm ready.
So if I walk up to a guy on a street, and I ask him "where does John Smith live, I'm going to shoot him in the head with this gun", it's perfectly ok for him to tell me, and he shouldn't be held accountable for anything. Is that right?
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.
Possibly, but in this case no one is bragging, and not every thing on the road is illegal. When downloading an entire Linux distribution, I need to get about 4 GB of data. Its all legal. I'll type that again. ITS ALL LEGAL TO FREELY DOWNLOAD!!! Because of the size, wget and ftp are not the best choices, torrent is. The big file is split into thousands of smaller ones, and each one downloaded individually and checked for accuracy. I can stop and restart at any time without 'having to start at the beginning all over again'. In the case of torrent files, there is no content in them that is owned by copyright holders. None. Its absurd that any torrent site ever got shaken down... and illegal!