IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "The founder of popular Bit Torrent site IsoHunt, Gary Fung, has been ordered to remove the .torrent files for all infringing content — an order that could result in the site shutting down. US District Judge Stephen Wilson issued the order last week after years of back-and-forths over the legality of IsoHunt and Fung's two other sites (Torrentbox and Podtropolis). Fung claims he's still hoping for a more agreeable resolution that won't result in IsoHunt closing its doors, but for now, things aren't looking good for the torrent site."

Comments

Re:They should more to a more civilized country

[DAldredge]

Why should you be able to use my work for free?

Re:Bah....Bah

[jim_v2000]

It is the same fucking thing. The torrent system is useless without .torrent files, thus hosting the torrent files is equivalent to hosting the files. The torrent clients have no other way of knowing where to get a file.

At the very, very least, I might concede that it's aiding and abetting copyright infringement.