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IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline

Posted by timothy on from the please-label-excerpts dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Bah....Bah by spazdor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you been having trouble finding pirated content on TPB yet? 'Cause I sure haven't.

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  2. Key excerpts from TFA by emurphy42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The movie studios had brought in expert witnesses stating that a statistical sampling of the content and server logs showed that nearly all of the content infringed copyrights, and about half of the downloads were made within the US. Fung dismissed this as "junk science" but did not present any sort of evidence showing that this wasn't a valid approach.

    Fung previously tried to argue that his sites were just another search engine that just happened to pick up copyrighted content, but the studios countered with evidence that his search code was specifically tuned to find copyrighted material.

    it would be nearly impossible for Fung to actively investigate every single file to see whether it's legal or not. Fung believes this goes outside of the DMCA and that the MPAA should provide a list of links to files that it wants taken down instead.

  3. Re:Bah....Bah by Khyber · · Score: 3, Informative

    'If Google provided a separate torrent search area for searching for torrent files, they would have a 95% illegal content rate"

    IT EXISTS.

    filetype:torrent is all you need to add to your search term.

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  4. Re:lol by Little_Professor · · Score: 3, Informative

    From Isohunt's twitter feed: @arstechnica, @wired on us "Ordered to Remove Infringing Content". There's no order, only PROPOSED order & I'd appreciate better reporting