Matsuda Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com will shut down operations next week in a settlement with U.S. movie studios that have long accused the website of copyright infringement, the studios said Thursday.The eight movie studios, including Columbia Pictures, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox Film, have also asked a California court to enter a $110 million judgment against the site and its operator, Gary Fung.Under the settlement, the site will shut down next Wednesday.The settlement is “a major step forward in realizing the enormous potential of the Internet as a platform for legitimate commerce and innovation,” Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, said in a statement. “It also sends a strong message that those who build businesses around encouraging, enabling, and helping others to commit copyright infringement are themselves infringers, and will be held accountable for their illegal actions.”The settlement in Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Fung comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in March, affirmed a district court’s 2009 ruling against isoHunt for inducing users to illegally download and distribute the MPAA members’ movies and TV shows over BitTorrent. IsoHunt and Fung were not protected by the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the appeals court ruled.The MPAA’s members sued Fung and isoHunt in 2006 in federal court in New York and the case was later transferred to Los Angeles. In 2009, Judge Stephen Wilson of U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, finding that the defendants’ “intent to induce infringement is overwhelming and beyond reasonable dispute.”The site is ranked in the top 450 most-visited websites on the Internet, according to Alexa.com. It is the fourth-most-popular BitTorrent site, the MPAA said.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash48 Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 RIP. You will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 :( :thumbsdown: :wtf: MPAA you aint never gonna win fully so give it up :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marke68 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 When will the twats behind The Motion Picture Association of America realise they are fighting a war that cannot be won,it's ok to have a massive budget to close down sites like isohunt but ffs at some point the faceless drones have to realize that it's a battle that cannot be won just by throwing money at the problem.Perhaps if the majority of content that hollywood and the music industry released was worthy of our hard earned cash this piracy "problem" wouldn't exist,just a shame that most of it is overhyped tripe that only the gulible would pay to watch or listen to.Whilst hollywood and the music industry keep flogging a dead horse i shall continue pirating with or without isohunt.One closes and another 2 replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 ouch another one bites the dust, torrent index sites are dropping pretty quick.... but like others say its not a win for them as we don't think of the past we think of the future and someone somewhere will have another site ready to go live with the next "big thing". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geeteam Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 OMG! This is said, cant nothing be done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalaffa Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Where did he get the $110 millions from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinness Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Where did he get the $110 millions from?...I was just thinking the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordi Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 RIP IsoHunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 That was my favourite search. Wonder what to use when it goes down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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