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Federal Court Issues Permanent Injunction For Isohunt

Posted by timothy on from the federal-prisons-are-actually-nicer-than-most dept.

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from NewTeeVee: "Judge Stephen Wilson of the US District Court of California, Southern District, issued a permanent injunction (PDF) against the popular torrent site Isohunt yesterday, forcing the site and its owner Garry Fung to immediately prevent access to virtually all Hollywood movies. The injunction theoretically leaves the door open for the site to deploy a strict filtering system, but its terms are so broad that Isohunt has little choice but to shut down or at the very least block all US visitors. ... The verdict states that they have to cease 'hosting, indexing, linking to, or otherwise providing access to any (torrent) or similar files' that can be used to download the studios' movies and TV shows. Studios have to supply Isohunt with a list of titles of works they own, and Isohunt has to start blocking those torrents within 24 hours."

9 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. I hear Wildcard Studios just licensed their work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wildcard Studios is allowing the MPAA to use the name of their movie "*" in their list of films to block.

  2. Re:Last time I checked by __aaaaxm1522 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Last time I visited the US was about 10 years ago. We have everything we need up here, believe it or not.

  3. Re:I hear Wildcard Studios just licensed their wor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No worries, that's the name of the sequel.

  4. Re:movies on... ISOhunt? by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can someone clue me in to why isohunt was hosting movies/music in the first place?

    Because they're they favorite food of isos, and isohunt was luring them in for the kill.

  5. Re:This proves how clueless by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    What country are YOU in? Do laws in OTHER countries apply to YOU when YOU are NOT in those other countries, at all?

    Just a friendly tech-support related tip, I think there may be an intermittent issue with your shift or caps lock key. You might want to get that checked out.

  6. Re:A better PDF link by EnsilZah · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone should set up a torrent for that.

  7. Re:Last time I checked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It's ok, we don't really want you here either, so it's a win-win. ;-)

  8. Freedom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All torrent sites should drop to FreeNet. In fact torrent swarms should drop to FreeNet as well.

  9. Re:I hear Wildcard Studios just licensed their wor by Khyber · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I don't think piracy will be so widespread for many more years."

    Are you that blind that you forget about sneakernet?

    Holy shit half of slashdot needs Alzheimer's medication.

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