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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. Bah....Bah by muppetman462 · · Score: 5, Funny

    First it's the Pirate Bay, then Mininova, Newzbin, and now IsoHunt? Where or Where are we to get our stuff from? Itunes?

    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. Re:Bah....Bah by NeutronCowboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Legality these days is determined by the depth of your pockets and the size of your lawyer-army.

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      Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
    3. Re:Bah....Bah by mweather · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because it's clear what The Pirate Bay's, Mininova's and IsoHunt's intention is, and because the content is 99% copyrighted material with no distribution rights from authors.

      99% of what Google indexes is copyrighted material, and they have no distribution rights from authors.

  2. they come and they go but there is one constant by krapski · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pirate sites will go, and others will replace them, but there is a constant: like death and taxes, piracy will go on.