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IsoHunt Partners US Attorney General to Ban Child Porn

BitTorrent search engine isoHunt is the first foreign website to partner with New York Attorney General Cuomo in an effort to keep the Internet clean from child pornography. By using the Attorney General’s hash value database to filter its search results, isoHunt will prevent thousands of images from spreading on BitTorrent.

isohuntTo combat the distribution of child pornography on the Internet, New York Attorney General Cuomo has started a hash value database. Site owners can use the database to voluntarily prevent thousands of illegal files from being shared via links posted from their websites.

The database is in use by many large social networking sites such as Facebook, Friendster and MySpace and the Attorney General is continuously looking for new partners to join. One of the latest websites to be approached by the Attorney General’s office is the BitTorrent site isoHunt, whose owner immediately said yes to the invitation.

“Users of isoHunt have often notified us of illegal child content in the past. We are pleased to expand this effort in working with Attorney General Cuomo in a collaborative database in stopping such appalling files from being spread on BitTorrent,” commented isoHunt owner Gary Fung on the collaboration.

Canada-based IsoHunt is not only the first BitTorrent site to join the program, it is also the first website outside the United States to cooperate with the initiative. This decision was praised by Attorney General Cuomo.

“The profound impact of this groundbreaking initiative will reverberate not only in New York, but across the country and around the world,” said Cuomo as he welcomed isoHunt to the program. “This is all about protecting kids, and the same way child pornographers use technology to distribute these disturbing images, we are using technology to shut off their digital pipeline.”

IsoHunt’s collaboration with the Attorney General sheds an interesting light on the lawsuit against the MPAA its currently involved with. In this case, a court ordered isoHunt to implement a keyword filter based on film titles provided by the MPAA. IsoHunt appealed this decision, claiming that a keyword filter would result in too much collateral damage and instead suggesting that a filter based on unique and confirmed fingerprints (hashed) would be more effective.

Supporting the Motion For Stay, Gary Fung informed (pdf) the Ninth Circuit Appeal Court about his new partnership and why that is more effective. “…isoHunt is the only international participant in the Attorney General’s program. This program is efficient and workable because the Attorney General provides hashes, names and file sizes of content files (child pornography) in their possession.”

“With those three pieces of metadata, they can be used to narrow down content files, download, and then do a hash comparison for verification. Thus, using their data on content files, we can make a BitTorrent-compatible info_hash database for automated takedown in association.”

Instead of a keyword filter, Fung and his legal team suggest that a hash filter will prove more accurate and effective. Thus far, the Court has not asked the MPAA to provide torrent hashes, just keywords.

“The key to the system with the Attorney General’s office is access and ‘knowledge’ of content files, which Plaintiffs are not providing, have never provided and are not required to provide under the current Permanent Injunction in this case, insofar as identifying Plaintiffs’ content files with reasonable accuracy.”

“If Plaintiffs would provide the metadata for the content files for which they allegedly have copyrights, we could then perform a hash verification as we are doing with the Attorney General’s office,” Fung concluded.

It would be interesting to see what the Court does with this new information. Previously, Mininova implemented a similar hash filter for copyright holders but it was ordered to implement a more general keyword filter by a Dutch court nonetheless.

Despite the legal implications, it’s good to see that the New York Attorney General prefers to collaborate with a BitTorrent site instead of trying to take it offline because if could be used for nefarious purposes.

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  • Anonymous

    Amazing stuff. This Attorney General is thinking with all his marbles.

  • theamp

    Thats one way to raise your reputation.

  • jthomp

    Excellent.

  • MAFIAA

    Excellent. Well done!!!

    May the others follow.

    Giganews?

  • Werekill

    This is actually a great idea.

    Torrent sites should get rid of content VOLUNTARILY, not by a court order, and this is a great example of what can happen when someone actually tries to work with a site like that.

    Of course, IsoHunt could be just boosting it’s reputation.

  • Anonymous

    TPB should do the same and kick those pedophiles

  • Anonymous

    This is a great step for Isohunt and if the wider BitTorrent Community could implement this it would be a great way to gain credibility and leverage.

  • Jack.ss

    I would like to see the same filter on the Pirate Bay.

  • cool

    cool..

    but I miss mininova.. lol.

  • Anonymous

    good, and get the sick bastards of the web me’s thinks!

  • lol_

    As soon as the press release came out for Myspace & Facebook filter, it was cracked… Filters do no good duh. Now instead of having a few pics, there are thousands of them with the simple press of a button. They are dumb asses… Have filters ever worked? no…

  • _lol_

    oh yeah and one of the providers who is offering the crack guarantees they stick…

  • Anonymous

    As much of a good idea this is, it just doesn’t really work. Hashes can be changed relatively easily and thus will have to be rediscovered and added to the list again, and could give false positives for files as well. Of course, this is better than nothing, and surely better than what the movie studios would have them do as it’s more accurate, but nothing is truely 100% right.

  • Anonymous

    This seems like a good idea and it is. But as usual i always see what bad can come from it…

    Isohunts stance on the keyword filter has been that the filter would cencor alot of ligitimate torrents.

    But with a hash filter, it will now be possible to remove Movies and Tv and Music without removing legit torrents.

    The MPAA and friends will use this in court to show that filtering is possible and that ISOhunt can do something about it…

    Its just a shame that something thats intended to protect childen will end up being abused the anti piracy agencys :(

  • Fredde

    And who checks that this hash database only contains actual child pornography and not also a lot of other “unwanted” content?

    Filtering and censuring are dangerous tools and not the right way to go.

  • lksd

    @Fredde spoken like a true pedophile.

    Great idea for hash table. I wish all trackers and cloud services would comply and use it.

  • noko

    If it’s lolicon and doujinshi, they can f/o.

    If it’s actual children being abused, then, yeah, I’m for that being banned.

  • honest bob

    Cumomo and his Child porn obsession.

    It’s how he ‘persuaded’ at+T, verizon and others to drop ALL their newsgroup access, becaues of the ‘child porn’.
    Also, don’t forget this – http://torrentfreak.com/ny-piracy-law-smells-fishy-080506/

  • see here
  • Mike

    How long before we have content added to such a filter which isn’t child porn, but lets say, legitimate criticism of US policy?

    My guess, not long.

  • Larry

    Not that i’ve looked, but i’ve never come across child porn on any torrent sites at all.

    I’m wondering if this claim is legit myself.

  • knux

    @21 Not that most of us have actually looked, but it’s actually all over the place. Even in supposedly legit ‘non-nude’ torrents.

    As for this being effective, I can’t see how. Unless they plan on scanning all archive files (archives of archives ect.) this will fail on all accounts. The hashes will be of the actual material, not the altered files.

    Doesn’t mean they can’t add the altered hashes in later but it would be a losing battle. Yes, it would be more effective than keyword filtering but not by much.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds good in theory, but it should be fairly easy to distribute “known” files with unique hashes.

  • Anonymous

    You won’t find child porn unless you are looking for child porn. People who want this implimented on other sites are those denying the download child porn. Peace.

  • pZ

    Good PR move, technically ineffective, and long term slippery slope.

  • 02784778

    1) Who decides what’s on the lists with hashes?
    2) Does isoHunt or any independent organisation check the hashes (what kind of files are behind it, so the GA does not add hashes that have nothing to do with child pornography)
    3) Immediate take down or leaving it open for authorities for investigation purposes?
    4) Are there any statistics how much torrenting is used for spreading it? Who the hell would be using a public tracker?

  • xsdg

    Despite all the tech reasons given why this scheme may unfortunately fail, one thing is being overlooked – the real hardcore/not-thick-as-shit paedos wouldn’t be distributing and acquiring through such an easy to trace system like bittorrent.

    This scheme will help, certainly, but it will be totally ineffectual in stopping CP from being distributed. It’s like a weed – it won’t go unless you attack the root.

  • Lothor The Evil

    This is good news to remove child porn, but…..it sounds to me like Gary wants to work with the entertainment industry to remove all copyrighted content from ISOHunt.
    After everything he has argued and said about protecting freedom of speech and whatnot, first it starts with child porn (which is good), but then it will continue to everything else and ISOHunt will become just like Mininova. He should have just stop right there after the child porn filter, and not filter anything else and tell the MPAA to go fuck themselves.
    If it was me, I would have told the Attorney General to go to hell and just block access to the US entirely.

  • pZ

    @27, but the ROOT is in history. How do you change history? Aren’t the authorities already been doing for years to strike hard at production?

  • Jay

    Would be surprised that anyone shares CP on torrents, like giving everyone your IP and sharing CP is not the smartest thing to do for sure

  • Frenchfries

    I found a torrent on thepiratebay of kids being dressed up provocatively so reported it to iwf.org.UK and left a comment on the torrent that I’d reported it , within a day tpb wouldn’t let me login & all my comments on other torrents had gone ! So tpb thepiratebay arnt interested in stopping childporn shame on them & quite frankly
    That’s what’ll get their site shutdown

  • Mr. Briggs

    Banning child porn is okay, but if the filters start expanding, then there’s a problem.

  • pZ
  • moarplox

    I think it’s an ineffective move and ultimately futile.

    What no one seems to understand is that the feds themselves are the chief re-distributors of child porn who leaked it out in different places after the criminal cases were over, even though they were ordered to burn the images.

    This happened a lot in the 70′s and 80′s.

    Why did they throw it back out in the public? Because they want a tiny snowball to boomerang back into an avalanche of criminal convictions so they can incite and later arrest more people who would not have committed a crime in the first place.

    Curiosity kills more than just the cat, it brings down the whole house.

    All the cops who have seen the stuff should be charged as pedophiles too, if you really want to make viewing the crap illegal.

    Of course it’s sick to look at, but not everyone who sees it is gonna go out and rape a child.

    This sort of unfounded paranoia of pedophilia only exists in America, where percentages of known pedos are highly exaggerated by the media.

    Just look at the hard evidence. Most of the criminals rotting in jail for pedophilia or CP were caught through police sting operations.

    So filter, hash-check, and do everything you want. Child porn is never leaving this planet for good.

    And we have the cops and American fear and insecurity to blame for that.

  • oh

    Net-Nanny for kiddy porn. Now if TOR exit nodes would check, it might dry up some of the pedo traffic. Cause

    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/.onion

    makes hosting in a reasonably anonymous manner possible. We know pedos use TOR to visit sites cause node operators have been hassled by the police, and it’s only reasonable to assume they use .onion as well.

  • Jacek

    Nice. Very good move.

    Just want to ask: is isoHunt have direct access to database (copying it to they server), or only for queries? If only queries (to prevent leak of important informations, thus makeing eaiser to find blocked content), what are the guaranties that black list will we populated according to the motivation, and not general censorship or baning movies for example.

    And will (or must it) isoHunt report about any users/IP which tries to upload child porn? I just do knot know US&Canadian laws in this matter.

    Thank.

  • SomeIdiot

    @31
    Maybe warning the uploaders that youd sent a team of anti CP feds onto them wasnt the best thing to do for people to get results and catch the guys behind such sick things.. Report that shit, stay quiet and let those sick fucks get caught and go to prison :)

  • A person

    Does a camera in a specific location prevent a crime from occuring? Resoundingly, no. Does a lack of child pornography prevent children from being raped? Of course not. This is obviously a scheme to open doorways into destruction of freedom and privacy.

  • Joe

    I just think about what Cuomo did to usenet a while back.

    This seems to be more about piracy than kiddie porn.I can’t help but think the MPAA/RIAA is behind this.

    Go ahead and say how wonderful this filtering system is, but I’m skeptical.

  • Ravensky

    I don’t mean to represent the idea as being bad but , and I mean but, sometimes a simple thing that starts out as a positive action can slowly under the guise of keeping someone or something safe can devolve into a negative action.

    If implementation of such an action isn’t monitored with caution we will not notice when it is slowly diverted to be used for other usages. Everyone needs to watch how something used to protect can be also used to darken its positive use.

    Censorship of information can and has been used to filter knowledge that has no need for censorship.

    Child porn is a horrid perversion , and I do not and will not condone it an any form or nature. But at the same time , we also need to be cautious of how far we go and to what extent we decide to censor. In any way one can call even a photo shot layout of a diaper add a form of child porn. In the same way as a young child of the 60-70′s masterbated to a sears robuck catalog someone demented and sick could also do the same to a parenting magazine.

    I agree we need the protection we just need to also make sure we dont go too far in the name of protection.

    TY for letting me have my peace

  • Anonymous

    I;m amazed that this is coming out from the New York Attorney General. Just a few years ago, they were trying to shut down all of USENET (well, the alt.* groups) because of a few bad newsgroups.

    I;m surprised the TF forgot their history.

    Nice to see though someone at the AG’s office is thinking. At least for once.

    As an aside, is there any method of other providers to use this hash database?

  • BIOS

    Good cause is good.

  • filter=search

    Super easy to just alter the image, re-encode, add extra byte to the end and the hash breaks. Only true collectors care about “originals” with correct hashes.

    Also, all identification lists are “oracles” and can be used both ways, for finding material too. Once you have a list of hashes, just blindly download as much stuff as possible and compare hashes. Get the files from usenet or some other fairly unmoderated source and you’ll get matches. The filter list will thus make child porn more available to those who know how to use them.

  • Anonymous

    Banning the images does nothing to actually protect the children being exploited. Instead of just filtering search terms or blocking images, they need to go after the uploaders of child porn themselves, and hopefully find the people responsible. The method stated in this article is just going in circles, not solving the real problem.

  • F.YOU

    oh come on…..who the fuc* would use a public tracker to trade CP? what were tor, freenet, emule made for then?

    1 request for everyone, try to find some cp (and by some i mean more than 100 videos with explicit sex) (you wont find 1…) on tpb or torrentz.
    Now, after finding nothing, try the same with emule….and tell me if you find less than 1000

  • Doink

    thumbs up.

  • Old Timer

    Years ago when HTML wasn’t around and the only search was through Archie and it was FTP’s, sysops would make sure the child or hard core porn was removed or blocked volentarily. It didn’t take a court to tell you something was wrong. I know this smacks of censorship but sites hosting this garbage were hacked and taken down. Even BBS’s back in the day were exposed for this.

    Good news for this but I would agree that the posters should be tracked down and prosecuted. Now we have the laws, back then it was all vigilante and volenteers to do the policing of the internet.

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  • Proof of concept

    Proof of concept…
    If you can filter that then you can filter this too (hands over MPAA and RIAA hash table lists).

    And a potential future even worst… if something is not part of the authorized hash table list then its forbidden.

    The Great Fire Wall

  • Ninja

    @ 17 Jun 30, 2010 at 23:01 by noko: agreed, ppl often mistake artistic pictures with real life.

    I wonder, if you change the torrent contents the hash naturally changes too. Is there a way to filter individual files? If not then has filtering is… Somewhat useless.

    Also, I sincerely doubt pedos share their stuff in open indexes at least I never got CP while looking for lolicon for instance even though the terms might be similar for related searches – and if I did the ppl connected to the swarm would be in deep shiet in my hands (read: I’d hand it in to the authorities) ;D

    Only some dumb newbie would do such a thing (use open indexers for cp). This hash filter has more utility to open trackers if any.. I might be completely wrong though…

    Still, kudos for the initiative.

  • LOR

    What’s wrong with child porn materials? It’s not like banning it would prevent the actual recording and abuse. Those who wish to see it might try it IRL instead, if they can’t find it online, increasing victim numbers. And those who do not, would care less if it’s available as a search result.

  • Hitler

    The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

  • Jedd

    EPIC FAIL… but Isohunt cannot filter copyrighted media.

  • W00t

    Won’t somebody please think of the children?????

  • Armo

    Traitors!

  • James

    Good intentions, but we all know (well some of us anyway) where this is going.

    They use something to rally up peoples support, and BAM, everything is filtered. Why? Well, because if you can filter this, you can filter anything no?

  • Cameron

    You know what? I couldn’t give a shit if there are Child Porn images or whatever on torrent sites.

    I want my freedom and I will fight for my freedom no matter what.

    So F*&k filtering and F&*k censorship.

    Grow some balls people.

  • Anonymous

    Excellent, get the sick bastards of the web

  • LOL

    ..

    Does this filtering apply only to US IPs or the whole world, if so then..

    What is CHILD porn (see imagelink) ?

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Age_of_Consent.png

    ..

    Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent

    ..

  • AnarchyNow

    This is typical witch-hunt bullshit:
    there’s no child porn on bittorrent (or on any non-encrypted system), it’s too stupid to do, and if there is it has innocent names and password rars and so nobody can see what it is OR it’s non-nude legal things in a “gray zone” ie like posting photos of your children on facebook, a thing people should really stop doing (beside stopping using the worse than nazi facebook that will lead us to the Matrix).

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  • americanpoliticiansarepedos

    American politicians are pedophiles. Clear and simple. Arrest all of the American politicians in Washington D.C.

  • Lucky Man

    wtf!! who would want to see goddamn child porn anyways? isn’t Ex-Gf pics right? or just child that under 18? I have no idea why gotten do with child porn? it should be blocked long time ago… so now everybody from government or antipiracy wanna work on it to filter like 2010? pssh so what’s next? I don’t understand why all anti-piracy & government worried about piracy if they don’t hire ppl become famous or put them to hollywood for videos or anything like that if not no wonder why ppl said hell with them so get movies whatever they feel like they got revenge…so hollywood, better do something… ppl want to be famous by caught by police or wanna be freedom with pirates :) so all things i said is my opinion not fact :)

  • Lucky Man

    @58 u goddamn right… i agreed with u, governments or anti-piracy probably plant these shits so they can make bittorrent feel bad about it…or trying to reduce bittorrent users feel scared or probably gonna quit so I’m getting VPN soon even seedbox for sharing my stuff :)

    I’m going to tell LL Cool J’s mama to knocked them out! lol

  • Zarathustra

    The Pirate Bay doesn’t allow child porn.

    @Frenchfries, I’m surprised they didn’t IP ban you for such an idiotic and ignorant move.

    @lksd Are you Cuomo? Someone speaks common sense and you call them a pedophile?

    The scary thing about this is searching and verifying these hashes is very obviously a dangerous and illegal activity in itself, so they will never know or at least admit that they know it’s filtering the right content. A very very dangerous move from IsoHunt. I’m glad it’s a site that I haven’t grown accustomed to.

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  • cdcase

    this has nothing to do with child porn

    Cuomo is just using this for political points and isohunt is just doing this to show court see hash filters work keyword filters don’t

  • Gail Mastraw

    Hey, if it cuts down CP then I am all for it. Just dont mess with the movies or the filez :)

    anon-surfing.at.tc

  • Peter Voth

    What kind of idiot would download child pornography via bittorrent?

  • lolwut

    @61 You need to learn some punctuation, I have no idea what your talking about.

    anyways…

    This really isn’t a big deal, you can get around hash filters so stop worrying about your music and movies, though, since it is so easy to get around I don’t see why they would even implement it unless they’re just doing it for the PR. Also, why the hell do they have CP hashes that they allow to remain on the net? If the feds where smart, that list would have been used to search on every major network to track posters down, not filtered to keep them out and thus making them move on to another site. You have to take them down to stop them, not just tell them to go away.

  • ThatRandomGuy

    If only all BitTorrent Sites did that, then they couldn’t use the Torrents=Child Porn argument they tried to use.
    Good for isoHUNT

  • TheBig1

    Since my post still doesn’t show up, even after more than 19 hours, I get the feeling that it may not just be due to the manual audit taking some time.
    And since I don’t believe that TF randomly censors posts, I assume it’s just a technical difficulty (the post was rather long and may have triggered some automated anti spam mechanism).
    Therefore I’m trying it this way, I uploaded the post to pastebin.com: http://pastebin.com/WCDDfwCy

  • anonymous

    would be really good to do so hope this works. one less lie the copyright industries can spread about torrent sites if this was universally used as well. however, i bet there will be some more trumped up reasons why the industries wont want it used, simply so they can continue to harass sites that post links, like search engines do, but no actual files.

  • anonymous

    would be really good to do so hope this works. how anyone can justify child porn, i do not know! be one less lie the copyright industries can spread about torrent sites if this was universally used as well. however, i bet there will be some more trumped up reasons why the industries wont want it used, simply so they can continue to harass sites that post links, like search engines do, but no actual files.

  • hms-one

    Won’t someone please think of the children?! Protection of children is ALWAYS the first excuse for those who wish to censor.

  • N.N.

    And once it’s been proven how well and effective this works we’re sure to see it becoming mandatory, and not only for kiddie porn…

  • StevO

    Im all for stopping CP but, its also the same thing for putting tracking chips in people. First it was our pets.Next it will be the criminals(sex offenders) then the children. Then, if you want to buy milk.

  • Whatever

    The MAFIAA will probably send a hash of everything on Isohunt.

    And here comes the
    “Cooperation is futile…..”
    again.

  • Anonymous

    what about suicide girls and alt. erotic stuff!?!?

  • Gss

    @31

    That’s because young girls dressed in non nude clothing is not against the law, numbnuts. What are you going to try to do next, ban all preteens from beaches because they wear swimsuits?

  • ritta

    i’ve found for myself a pthc illegal torrent collection on isohunt…i’ve found same torrent also on torrentz,btjunkie,kickasstorrents,etc – reported to FBI…nothing happened “WebVideo Collection” it’s still there

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  • Brandon

    This is just the first step in the destruction of the internet. First they say oh this is bad ban that. Then that is bad ban it too. Pretty soon everything is censored except Sesame Street. And that would be the end of the internet…

  • Anonymous

    @26

    Really the only way to check the hashs would be to be in possession of the allegedly illegal files in the first place so you can run them through md5sum or something. This would mean the government would be handing over child porn to some independent organization, with the intention of having “researchers” view the images/video, and we both know that’s not going to happen because the media would skin them alive.

    The fact is that you can simply resize, add a byte, whatever you want and change the hash on all of this stuff. It’s nothing but a PR move and nothing will actually be done. In any case, to be perfectly honest, I think having to deal with pedos is worth our freedom on the internet. With freedom comes danger and potential harm and that’s a fact.

  • kjhe

    It’s funny to see how people react when “Child porn” is mentioned. Censorship is never a solution, and especially not in this kind of an matter. It just goes more underground and harder to detect. It’s also sad to see such comments here, who would want them jailed?! If they are yet to do anything harmful to the children, get help to them (I mean, those people are sick…) instead of putting them to jail, which probably doesn’t help in the matter…

  • elduka

    i do hate child predators but i dont like the idea of them teaming up with big brother

  • anon

    This censorship doesn’t help, but the mass have gut reactions, they would rather skin a pedophile alive than have them access to any psychiatry help.

    I would prefer the money that was used on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (costofwar.com) are instead used to combat children sex slavery rings around the world. But that don’t makes the rich richer so they aren’t interested and of course its a subject that is ignored by the media and public. Instead they have these censorship things, but really the motive behind it isn’t what it seem.

  • {FU}Fubar

    Like seriously who cares who shares what. Letting these pigs have their CP keeps them from attacking kids in the real world (its a proven fact). So stop the censorship bullshit and let ppl do what they like. If people want to download that shit let them, either way its gonna happen.

  • pZ

    @83 “Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That’s one child every five seconds.”, but that’s not a moral panic issue or?

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  • Peter

    The ISO-hunt guys are nothing more than AG-prostitutes .

  • Random internet asshole

    Change just one byte in the image or video, and voila. You have a new hash. How is this effective?

  • Anonymous

    This sounds like the memory of the Hitler that ate the steel for violent peace under a black nova in Canada, because it wasn’t cheese cream. Idiots!

  • mark

    Great work by Isohunt. Also good work by the US attorny general. Hopefully isp and servers all around the world will lift them selfs to the same standards.

  • MrK

    great News !

  • Christopher

    67 Jul 01, 2010 at 16:22 by lolwut

    @61 You need to learn some punctuation, I have no idea what your talking about.

    anyways…

    This really isn’t a big deal, you can get around hash filters so stop worrying about your music and movies, though, since it is so easy to get around I don’t see why they would even implement it unless they’re just doing it for the PR. Also, why the hell do they have CP hashes that they allow to remain on the net? If the feds where smart, that list would have been used to search on every major network to track posters down, not filtered to keep them out and thus making them move on to another site. You have to take them down to stop them, not just tell them to go away.
    _____________________

    Ah, but if they did that, you would see how COMMON pedosexuality is, and then people would start thinking “WAIT A MINUTE! Pedosexuality is more common than homosexuality! If homosexuality isn’t a ‘deviant’ sexuality, than neither is pedosexuality!”

  • Legit

    Anyone who knows anything about hash’s and file sizes knows this: All it takes to change them is to open up MSPaint, add a dot, and save. This is absolutely retarded and a complete fail at any control.

  • Anon

    Every site should be more than willing to help rid the internet of this disease. A little pron is good for you once in awhile, not kiddie pron though. Good job isohunt.

  • Abbernomad

    Leave mah CP ahlone. Don’t ban maz internets. I don’t think I want a government telling me what I can and can’t download, whether it’s illegal or not. Laws are subjective. Besides, I challenge anyone reading this to ban ANYTHING from the Net. Good luck with that one, fuckface! Whack-a-mole IRL!

  • Sanity_Vocal

    Child Porn is just the ultimate evil. It should be banned by all sites. This is one way P2P can show that it is responsible in self-regulation.

    Perhaps we could do something about the RIAAs stand, like only put up movie torrents for titles 3 months after the showing of the moviies at the theatres.

    I only dl them to test if they are worth buying for keeps anyway, so if the DVDs can be made available sooner than the sometimes 1 year period from theatre releases, and if the movies themselves are worth buying, why would I want to DL in the first place?

  • morr

    no sites “allow” kiddieporn… Who is controlling what these hasches really contain? Why block it, instead of turning the IP:s of the uploader over to the police an catch them instead?

  • morr

    This censorshit is exactly what we are fighting in sweden and the EU right now… Sure it sounds great “keep the children safe” but all you do is hide the kiddieporn, you don’t save any children by doing that… The Internets are full of tracks… if you find something uploaded that contains kiddiporn… why not let the police take it down instead of hiding it and put the bastard uploaders behind bars?! It wont take long until other “inconvinient” things end up in that filter.

  • Erik

    Speak for yourself #97.

    I’m personally SICK of pedophiles trying to justify their actions and try to downplay child’s rights with these ironic “wont someone think of the children” or “this is just the next step towards censorship”.

    Isohunt or piratebay will not turn into a mininova and remove your movies, games and music.

    What they will do is restrict access to material that itself is evidence of serious crimes done on little kids who can’t protect themselves from these disgusting pieces of shit who molest and terrorize children through grooming, photographing and even raping them for their little photoshoots.

    Every little step, no matter how effective, towards making CP harder to get online, is a step forward.

    Maybe some day when you have a child you will realize it’s not just a ruse or a scheme to limit your freedoms. Pedophiles are monsters. They should have their rights restricted even on the internet.

  • A Pirate

    That sounds sane ,unlike the insane crap we heard coming from lawyers in the copyright business .

  • Matt

    # 98 Have a look at the proposed Australian net filter that will be implemented after the next election before you’re too sure that this sort of thing is 100% benevolent and accurate.

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