isoHunt loses appeal against search ban Canadian file-sharing website isoHunt has lost an appeal against a court injunction that required it to filter out searches for copyrighted material. Canadian national Gary Fung, who operated the site, was ordered to filter searches for BitTorrent downloads in 2010. He was also prohibited from using the terms in the website's …
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It was a US judgement, so it only applies within the US jurisdiction but nationality is not a necessary condition for infringement of US law.
I'd expect the US has extradition treaties with Canada - like it does with the UK - where a non-US citizen can be extradicted to face US laws without any requirement that the same citizen infringed local (ie. non-US) laws.
It's just like a Kanuk version of Gary McKinnon (but without the general public outrage).
No, you fail to realise that the US exports its laws as it sees fit. If you don't comply they come after you forever....
In the UK, it is enough for them to point a finger and say 'I want him now' and you are on the first flight out, oh sh*t someone's knocking on the door, it's them they're here to take me away, for daring to...... Aaaaaaaaaah, fuc*king tasered.........
"Fung was also profiting substantially from the operation, we're told. According to Hollywood Reporter, the site indexed millions of torrent downloads."
Where does the referenced article say anything about "Fung ... profiting substantially"? Just askin', like
Meanwhile, at the weekend I was looking for a specific episode of a 1990s TV series which I used to have on off-air VHS.
Isohunt indexed a handful of allegedly relevant torrents, none of which were useful.
But given the episode list on Wikipedia, Youtube found it for me straight away.
Is there much broadcast material left that isn't on Youtube?
Is the big plan to lure everybody into thinking it'll be on Youtube forever, then shut Youtube down? How would Google monetise that?
Hollywood makes no sense to me anyway.
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So, I just typed in "walking dead torrent" into google and the first 10 results were all links to well-known torrent sites, including torrentz, kickasstorrents and piratebay, with copies of the movie. A quick follow up shows from the torrent comments on those sites that the movie torrent is the real deal.
Nice try... now please go back to your MPAA corner office, there a good little shill...
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"So, I just typed in "walking dead torrent" into google and the first 10 results were all links to well-known torrent sites, including torrentz, kickasstorrents and piratebay, with copies of the movie."
And lots more under the "In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org." bits at the bottom of the page - which conveniently list the URLs removed!
@ asdf :
No way with the roaring success of DRM heavy handed online titles like the latest SimCity convincing users of the value of DRM, the MAFIAA is just a few take down orders from ... having to pay more lawyers.
All the SimCity "fiasco" convinced me to do is wait a few more days before trying to play any "AAA" releases which use online DRM.
And where were we talking about DRM?
Oh, that's right, you must be one of those bitter customers who vented their spleens on the forums and in the comments at Amazon. Good job, that. I do understand the frustration at not being able to play, but did you guys really have to take it that f**king far just because you couldn't play on release day? Sad, really - poinsoning the reviews just because you couldn't get on with sitting on your duff. Classy!**
** - Not much of one to talk, though, since I'm cutting down some poor tool who's still pitching his toys out of the pram over something that happened a fortnight ago. I could have some sympathy, but I'm fed up with the anti-DRM squad. Actually had a "friend" turn against me just because I wouldn't avoid DRM laden games. Someything about I was helping to encourage them to take away his freedom.... no I wasn't, I was buying and playing a f**king video game.
Nuke, because I'm not a trained IT professional, I'm the bloke who cleans the lavatories.
I dunno whether it was all taken too far, but it used to be that when you *bought* a game, you could play it. Not your computer could ask another computer if it was allowed to play it, and that other computer could be busy, or just go offline or whatever.
The anti-DRM squad have so far called everything correctly - media files that people bought in the early days of a variety of schemes are now screwed, games from multiple publishers can't be played every so often as servers go down, and it's only a matter of time before games are 'retired' and can never be played again because a publisher no longer wants to run the validation servers.
I remember those days - I was a not-so-spotty teenager hammering away on my Amiga. I do seem to remember, too, that I didn't own much in the way of "retail copies" of games back then. The ones I did own, I actually *OWNED*. Now, you don't own a game, the company grants you permission to use the game.
I don't agree with the whole DRM thing, but I fail to see an alternative. One of the biggest problems is that the people who "vote with their wallets" in regards to DRM are quite often more than happy to pirate the game. Phrases like "If they're going to treat me like a criminal after I bought the game" are happily connected with the phrase "I'll just go download the cracked version whe it comes out.", and nobody seems at all willing to acknowledge the hypocrisy of this behavior.
Personally, I take the stance that if I want to play the game badly enough, I will suffer with the DRM. I have many many games which I have had to bin because I didn't want to use a crack to bypass CD protections that didn't work under modern operating systems. I could build and maintain a legacy box, but I already have 3 desktop PCs and a laptop to deal with. Some of them, like Earth 2160, I had to bin because the activation servers were taken down (nobody could possibly still want to play this, right?).
There's no way I believe that SimCity (or any of my games which use Uplay) are going to be playable in 5 years. Even 3 would be a stretch. The point is to get the most out of them while you can, not worry that sometime down the road, you'll have a hankering to play some more and it won't be able to authenticate. That's even a concern with my PS3, but I'm not just going to stop buying games (and DLC for those games) just because they might go away.
Fung was also profiting substantially from the operation, we're told. According to Hollywood Reporter, the site indexed millions of torrent downloads.
How does the latter translate to the former? I need to know for money-making purposes.
If this goes on I will no longer be able to find all the good music form th 90's that has been dropped off the "long tail" or is being sold at extortionate prices via second-hand CDs. Or is available via MP3, but "not in your country"....
Indeed, but my point, if I had one, was that it makes no difference to any rights holder if you download illegally or buy a second hand CD. So why would they prosecute you for downloading for free rather than paying £9.49 for something that nets them no benefit - obviously assuming there was no legal way to buy it in your region that would pay the artist or publisher.
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