IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @06:04AM 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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Re:Bah....Bah by sopssa · 2010-03-31 09:11 · Score: 0, Redundant

You don't seem to understand that your intention counts too. If you're knowingly linking around to copyrighted content, your "but it's just metadata! we dont host it!" is not going to work, especially if you make it as obvious as TPB, Mininova and IsoHunt have been.
If you disagree with me, just see court results for every single one of these and in different countries too - TPB in Sweden, Mininova in Holland and Isohunt in US.