A Federal judge has brought down the curtain on BitTorrent search engine IsoHunt. The judge ruled that the service intentionally encouraged piracy and therefore had to go.

    In the latest of a series of rulings against peer-to-peer companies, a federal judge has decided that BitTorrent search engine IsoHunt infringed copyright by intentionally encouraging piracy.

    "Evidence of defendants' intent to induce infringement is overwhelming and beyond reasonable dispute," wrote U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson in the central district of California.

    The ruling is at least the fourth major defeat for a peer-to-peer company since the courts shut down the original Napster in 2001. Four years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that peer-to-peer company Grokster infringed copyright by inducing infringement. In addition, last year, a federal judge ordered peer-to-peer company TorrentSpy to pay $110 million damages to the Motion Picture Association of America after finding that the site destroyed evidence relevant to the MPAA's copyright infringement lawsuit.

source:  maxconsole

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Hmm, Isohunt was the site for me to use when MN went legit.
Now where do I go!?

Well PB is back up right?

IsoHunt is up.

Pirate Bay never went down.

Everyone calm down sheesh.

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(This post was last modified: 30/12/2009 06:55 PM by 1-R.)

Grey Ghost Wrote:

Senseito7 Wrote:IsoHunt is up.

Pirate Bay never went down.

Everyone calm down sheesh.

yea but for how long?

Meh does it matter? Torrentz was always better than Isohunt anyway.

Lunar Wrote:You didn't like my show Sensei?

It's not that I didn't like it.

Just break out the duct tape and lets have some fun...... mhmm

(This post was last modified: 30/12/2009 07:08 PM by andrewcc.)

andrewcc Wrote:daymn.....
first TPB and now isohunt (well i know tpb is still up but it's only a shadow of its former self)... those wee're probably the two biggest p2p sites out there.... i don't want to say this but failwire might be the only option left before long if this pattern continues

Nope-- that's just not the case.

TPB has just killed trackers but that doesn't matter. (Torrents uploaded to TPB have OpenBitTorrent added to the tracker list automatically, By the way)

Decentralized Peer Distribution through DHT means no need to host even .torrents anymore. MAGNETS will supercede them.. and are already available at TPB.

ThePirateBay have already announced the eventual phase out of the TORRENT (file), and eventually relying on MAGNET entirely, which in turn uses TORRENT technology.

The change is already happening in the Anime community as well... the TORRENT file will soon be dead. Long live TORRENTS!

(This post was last modified: 30/12/2009 07:13 PM by S7*.)