Comments on: Isohunt and the MPAA Knuckleheads

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:33:36 +0000

Surely if the MPAA are doing this rubbish because ISOHunt index the .torrent files, surely they should be taking people like Google, who also index .torrent files to court as well. To me it sounds like big bully wanting to pick on the (useful) little site?

Shame ISOHunt is down at the moment!

By: MPAA

MPAA — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:17:20 +0000

ill use the cybercafe then lolz

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:46:22 +0000

indexing the torrents which just pointing to the file isnt illegal, you are 100% right on that, anybody really read the DMCA Law its like 500 pages long who would be crazy enough to read that shit. anyways google is indexing torrents onto it’s server’s so does every crawer that search’s torrents…i would love to nuke the MPAA

a good way to remove these jerks is to block their MPAA ISP provider block every MPPA ip rang you can find that’s what am doing at mp4city

laters, freedom for education

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:56:45 +0000

Ha! Great article! Just browsing through isohunt and I spotted a nice banner add from Microsoft. I wonder if they know / care / support isohunt?

By: ThaNerd

ThaNerd — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:31:10 +0000

My Trackback didn't work, so here's my permLink:
Isohunt contre le MPAA (in french language).

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By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:23:05 +0000

It’s good to know that Cory has his eye on this case. Isohunt is probably going to need the EFF’s help before it’s all over.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:21:55 +0000

Purely for intellectual pleasure I venture here: The MPAA might like to argue that it is akin to keeping, and offering for free to any that come by, an up to date directory, a "yellow pages" if you will, of all worldly private market activity, including that of the black market. Certainly your directory contains the contact information for plenty of legal sources, but it also contains sources for obtaining illegal goods.

Now, isn't this exactly the service that Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others are already offering? Why does the MPAA not go after them, as they are clearly offering information which leads to the obtainment and use of software which further leads to the obtainment and use of illegal goods. The reason behind this is clearly that the MPAA would rather make big news of little fish to spare their pocketbooks. As a matter of fact, this is precisely the behaviour they have been exhibiting over the last year or so by suing end-users and not, for example, ISPs or those with more bite than the MPAA has bark.

As one who sides with the rights of the end-user in this case, and however irritating worrying about these fools may be, it may well turn out to be good for us in the end. As they pressure us to avoid using the current means available to obtain this so-called illegal content, we will be forced to come up with creative solutions ala Exeem.