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isoHunt Recruits Anti-Piracy Programmer

We should have posted this announcement yesterday, but better late than never. The Canadian BitTorrent search engine isoHunt, the one that’s been battling the MPAA, has just posted a new job offer.

To protect the interest of big media isoHunt owner Gary Fung is looking to hire an anti-piracy programmer.

It is about time, as Hollywood and the big record labels are losing fortunes day in and day out. Hopefully, this initiative will help to change things around. The job offer is posted in full below.

isoHunt is the most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine on the interwebs. It comes as no surprise that losers online share links of copyleft and copyright materials which isoHunt indexes, both in indiscriminate amounts. Each possible infringement from such links are worth tens of thousands of dollars in statutory damage. With 166.2 million files indexed within torrent links on isoHunt, the amount of potential claim is worth TRILLIONS of dollars.

However, the conundrum isoHunt faces is determining who owns copyright over what files are described within torrent files that isoHunt indexes, and what are the wishes of these copyright holders. Is a file’s copyright owned by hippies such as Richard Stallman and similar Free Software gang with these ridiculous beards? Or socialist commies such as these filmmakers posting free films and shows at Vodo, (absurd, I know) and similarly free music at Jamendo, and any other sites hosting such so-called copyleft non-sense? Or such copyright holders, whoever they are, hang on to their copyright as they rightfully should and intend on suing any who infringes on their copyright? Afterall, victories in court or settlements are worth more than customers. These copyright holders are our friends and isoHunt seek your expertise in bringing copyright thieves to justice. And profit.

Candidates for this posting has the following job requirements:

* Semantically determine from names of file listings within close to 7 million .torrents isoHunt indexes, the following: copyright holder of such files, and metadata on the copyright status of such files
* isoHunt do not host or have access to such files (isoHunt can’t be a hypocrite and download these files like all the pirates do), so your job it is to determine the above by solely file names
* No master database referencing copyright ownership and status with files shared on P2P networks currently exist, so your job it is to build such a database
* Desired, but not required: to determine names and addresses of pirates participating in the piracy of copyrighted works, for law enforcement purposes (not those owned by copyleft hippies, after having determined copyright status of files). Note that IP addresses does not suffice, even a child can copy out IP addresses of fellow pirates in his BitTorrent client.
* 30+ years experience in C++, Java, Python, Perl, TCP/IP, BitTorrent protocols, and strong magic are required for this job.

Should you qualify, please reply ASAP. Trillions of dollars of profit await, and your compensation will be almost as impressive.

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  • http://billy.wenge-murphy.com/ Billy Wenge-Murphy

    It’s the 2nd now. Party’s over.

    • hhh

      Your fly is unzipped

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trayan-Kolev/792033934 Trayan Kolev

    seriously??? for one thing…. it was posted on APRIL FOOLS! and I don’t believe that these guys are willing to prosecute the traffic of their website…these guys are Canadian, eh! And they are not going to take down 99% of their traffic, to satisfy the wants from an American bunch of bastards!! ALL HAIL ISOHUNT!!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/GabeCorral Gabriel Corral

      Dude, He was obviously joking but if they seriously were able to find someone with those qualifications I think they would pay him better elsewhere like making world peace, or curing hunger, or even cancer your know xDDD.

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  • http://mineshafter.appspot.com/ download13

    “Semantically determine from names of file listings within close to 7 million .torrents isoHunt indexes, the following: copyright holder of such files, and metadata on the copyright status of such files”

    That part is not quite as hard as one might think. You could make it fairly accurate in general, but it would be easy for someone to spoof a specific result.

    • Anonymous

      What about my home video called: “The Karate Kid” or “Unstoppable” or “Skyline”? Will they be filtered because of the name?

      • http://mineshafter.appspot.com/ download13

        Depending on how the filename is formatted, maybe.
        Scene releases are fairly easy to detect because they take a certain format. Your videos would probably be safe until the release groups got wise and just used plain titles.

      • http://mineshafter.appspot.com/ download13

        Depending on how the filename is formatted, maybe.
        Scene releases are fairly easy to detect because they take a certain format. Your videos would probably be safe until the release groups got wise and just used plain titles.

  • http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes

    Aaaaaaahahahahahahah, brilliant – and it sums up just how ludicrous and stupid the whole copywrong scenario actually is in relation to 21st century world society.

    I think my fave was -
    “No master database referencing copyright ownership and status with files shared on P2P networks currently exist, so your job it is to build such a database”
    lol

  • http://twitter.com/xRDVx xRDVx

    I understood it had to be a joke when they asked for “30+ years experience in C++, Java, Python, Perl, TCP/IP, BitTorrent protocols, and strong magic are required for this job. ” I mean, not like it is impossible, but very few would qualify :p

    • Anonymous

      I applied, they always ask for more then they can get in a job offer.

    • Anonymous

      Having 30+ years experience in a 10 year old technology is quite hard though :P

  • lol

    “30+ years experience in C++, Java, Python, Perl, TCP/IP, BitTorrent protocols, and strong magic”. Strong magic… I lol’d. :D

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  • Jfdstone

    Has isohunt actually confirmed this to be a joke? I am scared shitless….

  • Temphish

    Let’s face it… these files aren’t worth jack… this is just another example of everyone saying their stuff is worth all the money in the world and no one else’s work is worth anything. The files being shared are ours… they don’t belong to the artists, the distributors, the media, the courts, or anyone except God himself. People have a right to them and anyone who says otherwise is a goose-stepping moron who probably wants to take over Poland next and suggest that only the Rich should rule Germany while everyone else gets sent to Camps with big iron signs saying “Paying for your Entertainment Will Make You Free!” Government should do nothing, just as it has been since it’s the people who vote for them that are calling the shots and not the MPAA or other garbage pail kids.

  • Temphish

    Let’s face it… these files aren’t worth jack… this is just another example of everyone saying their stuff is worth all the money in the world and no one else’s work is worth anything. The files being shared are ours… they don’t belong to the artists, the distributors, the media, the courts, or anyone except God himself. People have a right to them and anyone who says otherwise is a goose-stepping moron who probably wants to take over Poland next and suggest that only the Rich should rule Germany while everyone else gets sent to Camps with big iron signs saying “Paying for your Entertainment Will Make You Free!” Government should do nothing, just as it has been since it’s the people who vote for them that are calling the shots and not the MPAA or other garbage pail kids.

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