Post by masders on Feb 15, 2024 4:30:11 GMT
A California court has ordered the well-known torrent tracker IsoHunt to stop "promoting copyright infringement." For this, the site must implement a filter that blocks links to download materials posted on the Internet without the consent of the copyright holders. The keywords for the filter were prepared by the ubiquitous Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which is actually suing the torrent tracker. We will remind: last year the same fate befell another popular torrent tracker - Mininova, only the court was Dutch. The operators of "Mininovy" found it technically impossible to screen torrent files that violate the law in advance, so in order to comply with court decisions, they simply limited their offer to distributions created by "verified users". (And his popularity has decreased many times - author's note ) The owner of IsoHunt, Gary Fang, also does not believe in the filtering mechanism.
According to him, this measure "raises serious questions about the balance between freedom of speech, the fair use of copyright and protectionism", as it will filter torrent files with materials in the public domain or distributed with the consent of rights holders. It should be noted that this is Andorra Email List only a proposal of the court and not a final decision. Gary Fang said he would object to it. Instead, a "lite" version of IsoHunt has been prepared, in which copyright is not violated. In fact, it will be nothing more than a search engine for torrents. Google, Yahoo! and other similar services in a separate case - they are also just torrent search services, but no one holds them accountable for copyright infringement.The English High Court found Newzbin Limited, which owns the eponymous Usenet newsgroup cataloger, guilty of copyright infringement.
Hollywood studios Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, Disney and Columbia Pictures acted as plaintiffs in the process. The defendants tried to convince the judge that their site is nothing more than a specialized search resource, indifferent to the materials it links to. However, this position did not make a special impression on the judge, unlike the facts provided by the plaintiffs. They, in particular, noted that Newzbin has a structure with such sections as "Books", "Programs", "Games", "Movies", "Music". At the same time, for example, "Movies" are divided into "screens", "Blu-ray", "DVD", etc., which, according to the plaintiffs, is a serious sign of piracy.
According to him, this measure "raises serious questions about the balance between freedom of speech, the fair use of copyright and protectionism", as it will filter torrent files with materials in the public domain or distributed with the consent of rights holders. It should be noted that this is Andorra Email List only a proposal of the court and not a final decision. Gary Fang said he would object to it. Instead, a "lite" version of IsoHunt has been prepared, in which copyright is not violated. In fact, it will be nothing more than a search engine for torrents. Google, Yahoo! and other similar services in a separate case - they are also just torrent search services, but no one holds them accountable for copyright infringement.The English High Court found Newzbin Limited, which owns the eponymous Usenet newsgroup cataloger, guilty of copyright infringement.
Hollywood studios Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, Disney and Columbia Pictures acted as plaintiffs in the process. The defendants tried to convince the judge that their site is nothing more than a specialized search resource, indifferent to the materials it links to. However, this position did not make a special impression on the judge, unlike the facts provided by the plaintiffs. They, in particular, noted that Newzbin has a structure with such sections as "Books", "Programs", "Games", "Movies", "Music". At the same time, for example, "Movies" are divided into "screens", "Blu-ray", "DVD", etc., which, according to the plaintiffs, is a serious sign of piracy.
