Isohunt and Torrentbox are determined to fight back
Written by Ernesto on February 24, 2006Yesterday the MPAA launched their new round of lawsuits against some of the bigger torrent sites. Today Isohunt says they’re teaming up with torrentbox and other p2p-site operators, willing to fight for the “right for technological progress” and the legality of the (torrent) search engine itself.
Isohunt.com states:
At this point, it is still uncertain what they are actually suing us for, considering we have a thorough copyright policy outlining our stance and takedown procedures. It is sad that despite our best efforts in helping out copyright owners, in both disabling copyright infringing links to their works everyday while for others, helping them distribute their works globally and cheaply using P2P technologies, it is still not enough for the MPAA. Have they ever learned from the VCR or Napster? When will corporations stop fighting technology and learn to embrace it?
To this end, us, isoHunt.com and TorrentBox.com, are forming a coalition together with other P2P operators being sued and yet to be sued, and if possible with the help of the EFF, we will fight for the right for technological progress and the legality of the search engine itself. It is too early right now to say what we need for help from you, but if the MPAA will not back down, I’m sure we are going to need your help. And no, we will not go the way of LokiTorrent or Suprnova.
Anyways, nobody panic, and let the torrents flow.
This story will continue…
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thank fuck for that at last a coalition getting together to fight the fuckers, much needed because united you stand and divided you will fall.
I’ll help out gary any way I can.
I know flippy ;)
hell yeah! i’ll help out in everyway i can!
This fight is insane. They will wear you down with their huge war chest. The best thing you can do is think laterally, and move the site(s) to a safe jurisdiction, where search engines are legal, like Sweden. No one cares where you are hosted, all the users want is to be able to search for torrents. Your country is undergoing conversion into a USSR style state. In this age, you can do something about it; publish somewhere else. All you have to do is get out your credit card, tar and bzip2 up the site and move it. If you don’t do this, you have only your selfs to blame. “Billy, don’t be a hero” the song goes…it applies directly to you. Unless you are going to go the “Tell me why!? I don’t like Mondays” route….lets not even go there.
Well Gary is from Canada, torrentspy is on the line here. And the host in NL, but the company itself is in the USA. So it’s not about shutting down anymore, MPAA can actually do something if you live there. Thank god I’m polish.
Once again enable dht and seed
I am sure that SKY (the UK digital TV service) is using a p2p service for their download programme…which is very disimular to torrent…if not the same!!!!
poked that last post !!!!!
I meant the same as torrent !!!!
whoops..
Well the first one has gone
Just to recap for everyone just joining us now:
- The MPAA announced in a press release that they plan on sweing a bunch of torrent sites, search indexes, and other large P2P networks.
- We have not recieved anything legal from the MPAA, or their lawyers at this time.
- We have volunterilly removed all the torrents, related software, and databases from the site.
- We will more then likely NOT have anything to do with the P2P scene in the future.
- I understand that a lot of people are feeling upset, disgusted, angry, afraid, and suspicious about recent things relating to the forum, but please try and remain calm, and objective.
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this is cool! Its like a tv show, every week a new episode!
I don’t know what to do with the dumb MPAA. It shouldn’t be hard to understand for a child but I think the MPAA is dumber :P
The technology isn’t to blame ! I can find stuff on Google to (so shut it down) and if google stays then the torrent search engines should to.
Also I think they should ban cars also. Think about how many lives would be saved when there is no cars to be abused by people(roadaccidents etc.)
This should prove that EVERYTHING we(humans) have inveted should be banned and shut down because there is a slimm change that somebody would abuse it.
The thing to do is let the torrent sites be and manage the content on there site as laws require.
Thank you!
I use torrent to wath tv series, I do not have a vcr so, when I miss a show, I download it, what’s wrong with that, recording it or downloading it, what the f– difference, except that I do not have to fast foward the tv ad …
MPAA don’t seem to be able to think that people does not have enought money to go to the theater to watch all movies, I pay to watch movies that I like, but, I download what I’ll never pay for. I’m not rich, and I’m not poor, but I have a life to live, and I don’t want to put all of my money to spent 7days/7 on the theater. I think that the movies industry are loosing more money trying to sued torrent site.
I agree with Marten, but…
If you shut down the servers, MPAA wins, and soon there will be some other “agency” sueing somebody else for doing some other, “illegal” thing. And in the end, they will sue the world for using the internet. And so goes the first amendment…, ironically.
So, I think, the most visited torrent sites should unite and fight back. Only an American agency full of stupid individuals that call them self MPAA is trying to sue everybody for the air we’re breathing.
Oh, and another point: what if somebody sued them because he’d paid whatever the price of the ticket, watched a “so-called” movie of the year, and only at the end realized how Sony, or Warner, or any other major studio had screwed his afternoon again, so it would be better if he donated that money to the local charity?
I use torrentbox :)
Well i hope torrentbox shuts down bcoz its the most piece of crap tracker i have ever seen.All the time torrentbox is just offline.I HOPE IT SHUTDOWNS.DEMONOID tracker which is inferno.demonoid.3389 rules the roost in the case of trackers.Also no prob if isohunt shut downs too bcoz we have got torrentz.com which is a better torrent search engine than isohunt.
I cant even post what i think about that i dont want to get banned for my foul language.
ICEMAN you are a stupid moron.
ICEMAN you suck … plain and simple
It is obviously just about money. It is pointless to try to convince the MPAA that what they do this is unfair or injust. The employees of the MPAA need to show publicly that they are doing exactly what the Industry pays them for. It is therefore not the MPAA, but the Industry for whom it plays it’s role as watchdog that has to be convinced.
Loki Torrent was a scam, that guy didn’t get sued, he made it up so he could rake in thousands of dollars in donations.
Ya i know ppl u would critise me for sayin torrentbox is a piece of crap but ppl i have got proof see i have been tryin to dload Sleppless in Seattle which is a 1.37 gb torrent but for my misfortune it is tracked by torrentbox so whenever i start dloadin in the best torrent torrent client Azureus 2400 i always get a error of sort tht the tracker is offline and stuff and tht basically suckzz.The only time this torrentbox has worked nicely for me when i dloaded 2fast 2furious tracks due to some miracle it was online at that time.I really hope MPAA AND RIAA put torrentbox in its right place which is DUMP.
fuck MPAA and their fathers. isohunt and torrentbox, coalition..gr8.
iceman….f U biatch
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