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Federal Court Issues Permanent Injunction For Isohunt
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."
Again, this proves just how utterly clueless judges (and politicans) are of how the Internet actually works.
Uh, which part actually proves that? Actually:
The part where anyone that wants to can just connect to isohunt through a proxy, or that 2000 other sites both better and worse have/will pop up to replace it.
The MPAA seems to be following the same tactics (kindof, bear with me) cops use to try and stop drug use... Tell everyone to just say no and try to marginalize users as criminals and undesirables... Start ramping up penalties for small users, then start going after the bigger fish... Slowly working up the chain until...
Until they catch themselves??
Actually we all know how it works... It's very simple. The law is whatever appointed, corrupt judges say it is... and generally is applied differently to those with wealth and power
Which the geek never admits to having.
Even when his income is substantially above the median for his home state, city or county.