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10-17-2013, 01:01 PM
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#1 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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| Goodbye to 'ISOhunt' - torrent search site
BitTorrent search site IsoHunt will shut down, pay MPAA $110 million | Ars Technica
isoHunt, a search engine for BitTorrent files founded more than a decade ago, has agreed today to shut down all its operations worldwide. The company, founded by Canadian Gary Fung, has also accepted a judgment that it must pay the movie studios that sued it $110 million. It's not clear how much of that the studios will actually be able to collect.
Fung gave up his long legal fight just weeks from having to defend his site in federal court; a jury trial was scheduled to start on November 5 in a Los Angeles federal court. Earlier court rulings had already determined that Fung was liable for "inducing" copyright infringement, so the court trial would have largely been about damage control. The MPAA had stated studio lawyers would have sought as much as $600 million had the case gone to trial.
On the US version of isoHunt, Fung had already agreed to filter out MPAA content when it showed up. Despite that, it continued to be a huge site. IsoHunt claimed to have 44.2 million peers, and 13.7 million active torrents, according to the MPAA.
isoHunt argued that it was solely a neutral search engine and had never directly copied the illegal content. But that defense failed isoHunt, as it has generally failed to defend peer-to-peer file-sharing sites in the years since the 2005 MGM v Grokster ruling. A federal judge and a panel of appeals judges agreed that Fung had "induced" others to infringe copyright. Fung had "red flag" knowledge that there was infringing content on his site. He promoted the fact that popular TV shows and movies were there to get more ads.
It's a long-awaited vindication for the MPAA.
"[This settlement] 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," MPAA chairman Chris Dodd said in a statement.
While the lawsuits take a long time to come to fruition, the entertainment industry has been pitching no-hitters when it comes to suing websites where peer-to-peer technology is used to trade copyrighted files. Napster, Grokster, KaZaa, and Limewire are the biggest tombstones in a growing graveyard of file-sharing websites. None of them were able to avoid liability in court, and many paid hefty settlements. Limewire, for example, paid the RIAA $105 million.
It's only the user-generated content sites that have been able to use the DMCA Safe Harbor defense that isoHunt tried, but failed, to use. Video-sharing site Veoh, for instance, beat Universal Music when it was found to be protected by Safe Harbor—but the company went bankrupt in the process. YouTube has spent $100 million fighting a copyright lawsuit brought by Viacom, which is still being litigated.
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10-17-2013, 01:25 PM
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#2 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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good thing I dont use torrent sites anymore....  | |
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10-17-2013, 01:32 PM
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#3 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Won't be missed, they didn't have much in the past year or so anyway. Piratebay for all your needs
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10-17-2013, 01:37 PM
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#4 | | -Stare-
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10-17-2013, 01:39 PM
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#5 | | Banned By Establishment
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bummer....although I have moved to piratebay recently...i still found iso to be pretty good.
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10-17-2013, 02:06 PM
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#6 | | Say! Say! Say!
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I always used ISOhunt and PirateBay as my backup for casual things.
Was convenient - I always just punched in "isohunt.com/(insert search term)" into the address bar
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10-17-2013, 02:45 PM
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#7 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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It just baffles me how much attention this Gary Fung individual wanted when he began running Isohunt 10 years ago. His face was plastered everywhere, like he wanted everyone to know who he was. I remembered Global News did a news story about him, and he was in front of the news camera, discussing about his success, smiling and looking like the biggest nerd. When you're treading in the grey area, the last thing you want is for law enforcement to know who you are. But this dude's ego got the best of him and he deserves what he's getting now.
I never liked Isohunt, I was always a fan of thepiratebay, mininova, and suprnova.
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10-17-2013, 04:00 PM
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#8 | | ...in the world.
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KAT and PB are still around for public trackers. All the best private torrent sites are still around.
...RIP Oink.
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10-17-2013, 04:55 PM
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#9 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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no discussion about trackers/torrents period!   | |
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10-17-2013, 05:46 PM
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#10 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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its 2013. why do people still use torrents anyway.
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10-17-2013, 05:47 PM
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#11 | | ...in the world.
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What's your alternative?
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10-17-2013, 07:51 PM
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#12 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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im gonna guess he uses XDCC/Fserve on IRC.
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10-17-2013, 07:53 PM
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#13 | | ...in the world.
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Way less user friendly than Torrents.
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10-17-2013, 08:21 PM
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#14 | | (╯°□°）╯聽不到 ╮(°□°╮)
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Guess a lot of people saw this coming for Gary
He is a family friend from church
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10-18-2013, 03:30 AM
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#15 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by Ronin What's your alternative? | MLM?
Direct downloads have become very popular an are faster since you start watching as it downloads.
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10-18-2013, 06:28 AM
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#16 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Direct downloads are so simple a chimp could do it plus you can stream it so you don't even have to wait.
Usenet is another alternative
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10-18-2013, 06:48 AM
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#17 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Still a ton of torrent sites out there, i never really used ISOhunt
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10-18-2013, 11:46 AM
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#18 | | ...in the world.
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Originally Posted by H.Specter Direct downloads are so simple a chimp could do it plus you can stream it so you don't even have to wait.
Usenet is another alternative
Posted via RS Mobile | You mean like Depositfiles and such? Don't those cost money? Free to start but if you want high speed, you need an account?
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10-18-2013, 12:56 PM
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#19 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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^ Those sites are so slow. It's not worth it. If I need to pay, I rather pay for newsgroups.
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10-18-2013, 01:16 PM
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#20 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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im predicting piratebay to be next fuuuuu
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10-18-2013, 01:18 PM
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#21 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by willystyle ^ Those sites are so slow. It's not worth it. If I need to pay, I rather pay for newsgroups. | They are not that slow. it takes less that 20 minutes to download a 30 minute minus the commercials TV show and you can start watching as soon as you start downloading.
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10-18-2013, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by dachinesedude im predicting piratebay to be next fuuuuu | PB has already been taken down in the past...
...and brought right back up lol
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10-18-2013, 03:11 PM
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#23 | | ...in the world.
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Originally Posted by Manic! They are not that slow. it takes less that 20 minutes to download a 30 minute minus the commercials TV show and you can start watching as soon as you start downloading. | Every torrent I download maxes out my 1.5MBps (not Mb) bandwidth. 30 minute shows in standard def take 2-3 minutes to download and cost nothing to download. 10 minutes to download 720p Top Gear...30 minutes after it airs.
Yes, you can stream but I don't know of any of those DD sites that aren't annoying or cost money apart from Mediafire. Quote:
Originally Posted by jeedee PB has already been taken down in the past...
...and brought right back up lol | I believe TPB has some clout behind them now with the Pirate Party getting two members into European parliament. They're based in Sweden.
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10-18-2013, 06:54 PM
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#24 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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you can stream torrents too before it completes
decent newsgroup is subscription based
direct download is litered with ads with wait times and slow speed
torrent is still the best free download...only PITA is leaving your computer on to seed and worrying about ratios
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10-18-2013, 07:23 PM
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#25 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Newsgroup all went to hell when nzb matrix went down.
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