Isohunt Ordered to Take Down Illegal Torrents

[Ciuy]

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

 

[maydaynomore]

HAHAHAHA.........Good!

 

[jaoreill]

I just typed in the names of five (X-men origins, the aviator, law abiding citizen..)movies into google, four of them had torrent in the suggested search. They all lead to TPB or isohunt anyway, there's always going to be a way.

 

[weegee64]

Before you start complaining about what the government/hollywood is doing, think about this.

There are two reasons why the majority of people do not pirate software.
1) It is illegal, and they are unaware that it is almost impossible to get prosecuted if all you do is download.
2) They are not tech savvy enough to do it.

If the government made piracy legal, or completely ignored it, then those people who are afraid of the law would do it. Then, the non tech-savvy people would learn quickly through word of mouth and the incentive to save hundreds of dollars. Then, the software companies would no longer make games or programs because almost no one actually buys them. Thus, we would effectively have nothing to pirate, since no software is being made.

However, with the government going after sites like IsoHunt, the general public thinks that the government will arrest/fine/prosecute them for piracy, and will refrain from doing it. Thus, they support the software developers, and they keep making software.

So the end result is that we get to pirate software, software keeps getting made, and the government never prosecutes us, since there are so many pirates, and it is difficult to get a conviction. So, you see, it makes no sense to complain that the government is going after relatively minor torrent sites, since by doing this, the government is effectively perpetuating piracy.

 

[blackened144]

They are going after every site associated with piracy.. Has anyone here been to nfohump lately?

 

[bcube]

if the court orders shut down is the shut down of the site implies to only us or world wide shutdown?

 

[HalJordan]

I thought everyone stopped downloading copyrighted materials when Napster went legit. What is a torrent anyway?

 

[toastninja17]

This actually makes me really, really sad. Isohunt IS my torrent site, the only one I use. I occasionally use TPB, but Isohunt is really clean and extremely organized and well-run, not to mention great speeds.

 

[Guest]

isoHunt.com I should clarify with misleading reporting out there that there's no order, only a PROPOSED order. @Mashable sums up the problematic issues we are debating nicely: "It’s understandable that the entertainment industry is going after large torrent sites, as they point to thousands of links to copyright-infringing content...

 

[RazberyBandit]

Yeah, I mentioned the "proposed" part in a comment I made. (Which was subsequently removed cause it pushed the boundaries of Tom's ToS in accordance with "illegal" activities.) Sorry Tom's! Naughty Raz... Naughty naughty!

Anyways... The proposed word filter portion of the injunction is truly flawed if you read about how it's to be implemented. Not all torrent-related material is in fact illegal, but filtering the words contained within Columbia Pictures' (with pressure from the MPAA behind them) film titles would also prevent isoHunt from providing unrelated legal torrents that share those same key words. For an indexing and spidering based search engine like isoHunt (Google and Yahoo alike), this would be a tremendous blow to their ability to even operate at all.

More info about that particular aspect can be found on pages 10-13 of Fung's legal argument:
http://isohunt.com/img/legal/Fung%20Inj%20Opp&Dec-FINALSTAMPED-noexhibits.pdf
It's a very interesting read...

 

[drutort]

who really cares? how about stopping supporting all garbage from the movie makers? I have maybe only gone to see 2-3 movies that were worth while in the last year, and those were the already known to be big hit movies, I dont even bother wasting time with movies or TV anymore, I mean the internet eats up way too much time now... it has replaced movies and TV... and im not even touching video games... which i bought 99.9% of because of the ability to play online 😛

quite honestly im tired of all this 'piratcy' as the escape goat, I would like to see a lot of the pirating to stop/minimized, and then i want to see what the companies will find to blame next!! oh i want to see what they will try to come up with... esp when most of the people will find out how much they are full of it... and how there products are nothing but garbage to start with...

 

[Guest]

I remember when it wasn't ISOHUNT that everyone flocked to, it was supernova, it like killing the ants you see without getting the nest or the source of their food. All that will happen is that all the "ants" will find "food" they will just find it elsewhere, and a new site will become the "go to" site, and after a while they will get shutdown, and after that happens a few times, the technology will emerge changing just enough that the law will have to be changed and the circle will continue.