MPAA Filter Censors Legit Torrent Files on isoHunt

Ernesto
April 6, 2012
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Following a US court decision BitTorrent search engine isoHunt was ordered to implement a site-wide keyword filter provided by the MPAA. According to isoHunt’s owner the ruling would result in mass censorship of legitimate content, and recent evidence shows that this is indeed the case. The MPAA’s mandatory filter is accidentally censoring thousands of public domain songs and even an independent film which was uploaded by the filmmaker himself.

Nearly two years ago the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.

The Court ordered the owner of isoHunt to start censoring the site’s search engine based on a list of thousands of keywords provided by the MPAA, or cease its operations entirely in the US.

“I find it absurd that we are required to keyword filter which ironically all search engines in countries like China are required to do due to political censorship, but isoHunt would be the only search engine serving traffic to US users required to do similar filtering,” isoHunt owner Gary Fung wrote to the court in a response.

Hoping to get the decision overturned isoHunt filed an appeal, which is still ongoing, but in the meantime it saw no other option than to comply. The filter was implemented and has since prevented a list of film-related phrases from showing up in the search results. But not without collateral damage.

Besides blocking links to Hollywood blockbusters, the MPAA’s filter is also preventing public domain works and authorized content from being accessed.

Filmmaker Brian Taylor is one of the independent artists whose work is falsely censored by the MPAA filter. Last week his small film production firm En Queue Film released a 18 minute horror short titled “the Bite.” In addition to putting it on video streaming sites Taylor also thought it would be a good idea to put it on isoHunt.

“I got it going, had downloads start from the US and Europe almost immediately, which made me a very happy guy,” Taylor told TorrentFreak.

However, this enthusiasm faded quickly when he tried to access the torrent from a US connection a day later. Instead of a link to the torrent file the filmmaker was welcomed with the following message. “Torrent has been censored, as required by US court.”

Blocked torrent

isoHunt

Needless to say Taylor was shocked to see the work that he owns 100% being censored. The whole idea was to share it with a wide audience, including people from the US.

“Some of us aren’t stealing movies from torrent sites, some of us are offering original material,” Taylor told TorrentFreak.

“My original material being blocked in the US hurts my chances of: being discovered, making money, making more art. Not to mention the fact that Americans miss out on “the Bite,” the most original realistic short horror film ever made.”

Unfortunately, this takedown is not an isolated incident.

Another good example is this torrent with thousands of songs from the 1930′s, that are all believed to be in the public domain. While the content is completely unrelated to any motion pictures, the MPAA filter prevents US visitors form accessing it.

We asked isoHunt to look into the issue and we were told that an unfortunate combination of keywords in the file names is to blame.

“We’ve found that it was a TV title that censored it,” Gary Fung told TorrentFreak, adding that these false positives are quite common.

“There are thousands of titles the MPAA sent that we are forced by the US court injunction to censor our index against, and these are but two tangible examples of non-infringing content that is falsely censored,” he added.

As isoHunt has pointed out to the court before, this false censorship based on a filter which includes many dictionary words, is clearly hindering freedom of speech. This is one of the main reasons why the BitTorrent search engine continues to fight the filter requirement in court.

The Ninth Circuit Appeal Court now has to decide whether the permanent injunction will stay in place or not. This decision will be a crucial one to the future of isoHunt, and possibly many other search engines including Google.

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Anyone

why not just black out in the US with a note telling them to email/phone their congressman/senator that the people of the United States of America don’t want censorship

that should make this “1st amendment issue” a lot more public and a lot more visible
- Jimbo
  
  or better still, just block the US from the rest of the world! sorry it would affect everyone there, not just those that deserved to be blocked but that’s collateral damage!
  - wankie wankie
    
    Wow seriously dude come buy my shitty-vpn . tk
    just kidding :D
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      Y U NO LIKE THAT SITE ?
      
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- Xander Delores
  
  yeah, although an possibly impossible task (well maybe with viruses) = make every computer block all US IP addresses, that way the US can truly see what kind of world the Copyright Corporations and some Gov officials want for them
  
  i wonder what the net would be like if you couldn’t reach any US IP address and on the other site if any US user couldn’t reach any non-US IP :}
  - Mwhahaha
    
    Maybe someone could make us a filter for all browsers so we can filter out all US content.
    Especially those owned by any huge media company and especially especially if it contains adverts which pay them per page hit.
    
    Might be one way that Europeans can show our disaffection with their childish behaviours.
    - Steve
      
      Internet Boycott of USA: Best Idea of the Year!
      
      Even if the boycott involves just a few hundred sites, headlines will thunder around the world and educate millions (or billions) of people who haven’t got a clue.
      
      The press will have a field day.
      
      You are genius, Mwhahaha. I hope you become a guest on the Letterman Show (or on some European show).
      
      Surely some geek here at Torrent Freak could write the software, whip up a list, and have it all ready to go within a week. Among the rewards would be global fame and limitless sex like a rock star.
      
      I believe the Pirate Party will help to alert the press. (Pirate Bay and Torrent Freak, too, I bet.)
    - yello
      
      maybe we should buy all possible products (bar groceries) from overseas websites…. thatll fuck usa’s economy around abit…..
    - Anonymous
      
      YES ! But I am a US Citizen who hates my Government.Make a filter that would take out all MAFIAA Links in my Country.I would love to see that one.Anything with the Keywords, MPAA,RIAA,Hollywood,Disney,Sony, ETC.
      Leave the Internet and all of us guys who are Rebels and full of hate of these Corporate Masters.
      Don’t use a bludgeon but use a scalpel.
  - Guest
    
    It’s easy, just get PeerBlock and download the US IP-range filter
- http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee
  
  lol That’s fucked up I email mine every single week I have been for a good while now. Not that they probably even read them but it’s just the point that I am sending them. Looks like I’m going to be stuck with guys shitty-vpn. Does that come with 26.6k or the full 56?
- Guest
  
  Blackout would be kewl – also, consider boycotting all the following:
  
  Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (The Walt Disney Company)
  Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
  Paramount Pictures Corporation
  Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
  Universal City Studios LLLP
  Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
  
  Major members of the MPAA. If you just have to watch something, torrent it, but make sure not a cent goes back to these pricks who want to wreck the internet for their own selfish greed.
  - Idea
    
    one of those folks should break ranks and quit the MPAA in protest.
    
    “We understand piracy is a service problem and we’re going to lift our game. The MPAA has been going about this all wrong, attacking the very people who love what we produce. That ends now.”
    
    imagine the positive publicity they’d generate.
    - Tom
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishful_thinking
- SS
  
  USA = The bigger shit ever , full with hipocrisy, manipulation , corruption , abuse, crimes ,censorship and lies , the worst dictature of the wolrd
  
  So foget about human rights , about international laws , even about US constitution …they dont care about that and about humans, nature , culture and something like that , the only thing which matter for they is money
  That is USA – dictature based on money , to get that money they are ready to kill , invade and destroy everything
  
  F..k you USA ,hope in one day you and your jewish lobbyist leaders will be tottaly destroyed ,
  You are a shit , soon or later somebody will flush the tolilet !
  - Yo
    
    You’re the shit we flushed
- ggorg
  
  I say we block all US congressmen, governors, senators and statemen from the internet. Or just pr0n sites, because we all know that’s all they use all day. Give em a banner:
  
  “Are you involved in the US government? Chances are you’re a criminal.”
  
  Then again, all governments are thieves and liars.
- Pandoruix
  
  Proxy Servers fix the censorship issues……. IRC can be used to!
  - Pandoruix
    
    they keep it up 1776 will happen all over again. Our government is getting to nosey and to big. Cant wait to see it fail!~
- Pandoruix
  
  http://www.hauppauge.com/
  
  Shouldnt this site be sued to. It enables you to record TV???? I dont understand the double standard !!!
Joormum

The MPAA and RIAA want to destroy our internet
- http://twitter.com/Mathew30 Mathew Lisett
  
  no they dont, they want it to their advantage so that more money and control goes to them.
- Anonymous
  
  they want to destroy it in it’s present form but leave it salvageable to change to how they want it to be. they want to be able to make loads of money from the ‘net but dont want anyone else to do so. file hosts, cyberlockers, p2p, torrents every way of storing and downloading imaginable will be legal when the ‘industries’ can use them but not until!
  - Mwhahaha
    
    They want it to be interactive TV.
    
    Imagine facebook, but with a cinema and itunes and a shopping space all attached to it where you can Spend! Spend! Spend! and watch endless adverts before doing anything else.
    
    or to put it way better than I ever could, I give you Mr George Orwell.
    
    If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.
    - Guest
      
      THIS
Anonymous

This is exactly what the MAF|AA want.
Their only reason for existing is to protect their clients business interests and that includes blocking all independent music and film.
- Anonymous
  
  +1
  Making it harder for Big Meat Hammer and the other bands I did all of which I share on TPB, ETC.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=753788298 Mike Buck

step (A): move out of america totally. .se domain, no us servers, etc, etc

step (B): post pic of court document in anus

step (C): lolz
- derp
  
  format that would have boosted your comment to +++
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  My tips…. I have over 9000
anon

It’s another example of Rick Falkvinge’s argument that changing the internet into a copyright police state is inconsistent with freedom of expression. These measures hurt innocent parties. Also, just think where we be if the courts of the past banned video recorders just because the technology could record copyrighted television shows. People would have had less incentive to buy the recorders and the sales of the movie studios in the old VHS market would have been much less. This is happening now in France, where overall paid content viewing is down despite the HADOPI laws being in full force (per an earlier article).
- Mwhahaha
  
  We wouldn’t have had You’ve Been Framed/Americas Funniest Home Movies for a start.
  
  imagine that cultural wasteland.
Anonymous

i dont believe for 1 second that the blocking of legitimate files is accidental. rather, it was known by the MPAA and the other entertainment industries that this would happen. i’ll bet anything you like that almost all the ‘accidental’ files that have been blocked are nothing whatsoever to do with the industries. they refuse to allow, if possible, anything not controlled by them to be available. the problem is, how does isoHunt convince a court as to what is going on and get the filter removed? MPAA etc are going to say the files blocked that shouldn’t be are simply collateral damage. that, however, doesn’t help the producers of those files, which, again, the industries dont care about at all!
- Anonymous
  
  The solution is simple. Have every single one of the produces of the content that is “accidentally” filtered by the MPAA filter sue the MPAA. If they start to lose a lot of money from their thuggish behavior, they will eventually stop, or go bankrupt. Either result is fine in my opinion.
  - Mwhahaha
    
    An easier solution would be for uploaders of indie films/music to have a tag which exempts them from the filter. That tho relies on anyone posting pirated items not to stick that indie tag on there.
    
    So it won’t work.
    
    There is always mininova for legit distribution remember. All totally above board.
    
    Oh mininova, what happened to you….
- Mwhahaha
  
  That is it, it is collateral damage. There’ll be a number on a spreadsheet somewhere which is the amount of money they’ve put aside if they’re successfully sued by any innocent party over this.
  They accept it.
  - John111
    
    But they probably will not get sued, surely they will argue that the issue is with the filtering software as all they are supplying is a list of keywords :-(
- FinalApokylypse
  
  They wouldn’t have been intentionally targeted.. It’s just that the MAFIAA don’t care that theres collateral damage to other products as long as it’s not theirs. This is clearly the problem with filters, no matter what you do you will either be too specific and miss some of the files you want to filter or be too broad and get files that have nothing to do with it. MAFIAA of course wants the latter.
  - Anyone
    
    why wouldn’t they intentionally target competing products?
    - MadAsASnake
      
      From DCMA false takedowns it would appear that they already do.
http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

ONLY COMPANY ALLOWED to control the internet is any silicon valley company every one else get the fuck out. NO POLITICAL, NO MPAA , and especially NO BODY THAT Doesn’t UNDERSTAND THE INTERNET. you may use it but you will never understand what is going on.
- Lars
  
  No one entity should be allowed to control the internet. It’s everyones to use as they wish (within reason)
  - http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy
    
    Keep the the internet open rather then a labyrinth but if they want control then let Silicon valley companies control it since should know how social aspect on the internet runs therefore they know how to manage it. Besides internet is controlled to a certain extent like how ICE controls .com, .net, and .org domains or ICANN which creates new domain. But we can always rely on the Pseudo-top-level domain to get the REAL FUN PORTION OF THE INTERNET.
    - Guest
      
      i would not suggest leaving the control of the internet to anywhere in the usa.
  - Mwhahaha
    
    Don’t incredibly cute cats control the internet?
- Anonymous
  
  We can wish for technical control and progress but instead we have…
  
  One MPAA to rule them all.
  One MPAA to find them.
  One MPAA to bring them all… and in the darkness bind them
  In the Land of Hollywood where the shadows lie.
  - Mwhahaha
    
    I had them more as Nazgul (is that right? the flying version of the black rider things).
    - Anonymous
      
      Yes, Nazgûl. But then who is the Dark Lord?
Anonymous

Censorship has always gone hand in hand with collateral damage. It just then poses the question of how much social damage they are prepared to accept in their flawed attack on the monster they wish to slay?

You have to find it funny that the BT network uses the Hash value to identify an exact file but the best this screwy-eyed judge came up with was a dictionary word search. I think those copyright cartels really need to come up with a more precise system if they don’t want the world to burn as they hunt for infringers.

To give you the best idea on how flawed and stupid this ISOHunt censorship is then imagine this same banned word list if it were applied to Google. I can safely say that kind of censorship would be the complete end of this search giant as we know it.

Well maybe they do need to learn the results of such broad censorship the hard way. What most interests me is that people doing file-sharing are very resourceful and often route around such blocks which means the copyright cartel’s gain may only be minor making such collateral damage much less justifiable.
- Uth
  
  They do not care if they lose money – They are doing it together with the government . All this entertainment industry bullying is just to test how far they can go and what will ppl accept . If it is just about the entertainment industry money Net would win and/or by now someone from government would step in .
  Together with internet political activism raised so i do believe that they consider whole idea of internet as bad thing . Today already a post on the internet had bigger legal consequence then saying it in real life …
- Guest
  
  I wouldn’t be suprised that Google is the next company to be targetted with to have filtered enforced in place.
  - whatevewr
    
    Google needs to be shut down. They care more about money than a better Internet. Google is responsible for creating the majority of stuff on the Internet that is considered horseshit.
    - Anyone
      
      I’d like some examples of that
      while it is true that Google like any corporations cares mostly about their profits, they also try and give us useful stuff for free (whatever did I do before Google Maps for example?)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Denuel/100000227012896 Greg Denuel

I think this whole thing is f@#$ed up.Why does everything have to be about money.I see the almighty dollar takes priority over the rights and wishes of the American public!
Xander Delores

i don’t think the Copyright Industry could ever win the “sharing war” in a way they like, there are too many ways to share things for them to control that in the end no1 would accept their way

the only tactic they have over others is fear of imprisonment or fines, which is surely quite bad already

in the end the Copyright Industry is going to lose, it’s inevitable
- Mwhahaha
  
  Once we’re all locked up, who’s gonna buy their over priced crappy shit then?
  
  Hmm?
  HMMM?
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Anon_pussi

Well we do nothing about it do we? just bitch about it like whiny pussies, all anonymously in a forum… I pity you pussies, and I despise myself.
- Uth
  
  What is there to do ? Whine louder ?
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FCNK7C55CBUYFVSC5LNWKB322E Buglord
    
    BRING OUT THE GUNS!
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Getting to be a more and more legitimate solution to this problem, violent revolution.
  - http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn
    
    We can stop buying their products, as the British public did to Ratners Jewellery chain when the CEO insulted them. The chain went out of business within weeks. And we can refuse to vote for any politician in any country who sides with the MAFIAA. These thugs may think they have the power, but they don’t – we do. Like a sniggering schoolyard bully they will be trampled to death if the whole school turns on them.
    
    We need to make something like Black March stick, but it has to be more focused – perhaps boycott one company or one medium at a time so they all shit themselves wondering if they are next. If they lose money they will soon lose their corrupt political and legal pals and it wil be downhill thereafter.
    
    Ironically, the very tool these bastards are trying to take over for themselves should provide us with the ability to do so – the internet. There are more of us than them, and there certainly seems to be more intelligence among us. Have you ever seen Army ants deal with a large, powerful, stupid animal that gets in their way?
    
    As Rik Falkvinge notes this is not about creative rights, this is organised crime in cahoots with corrupt government trying to control our children’s lives for their personal profit, just as their street corner gangster brethren do. We must stop them by any means possible. You don’t have to do battle with a rabid dog to kill it, all you have to do is cut off its food supply – in this case money. Stop buying their products, and starve them to death. Even those warped perverts cannot sue people for not buying something.
    - Uth
      
      I do those stuff already . Here in Berlin Pirate Party even got in city council/parliament . Last thing they did something about anything was first round of ACTA since then i heard nothing from them .
    - Mwhahaha
      
      Nice idea, but it seems unlikely we’d get the public support to make enough of a dent in their profits. After the UK news of the world paper was shown to be utter shits people still went and brought it once it got given a new name.
      
      Out cause isn’t as ‘sexy’ and headline grabbing as that situation either. And unless it comes along with a petition, a refusal to buy will just been seen as evidence of even more piracy.
    - Guest
      
      Nice ideas, but if I learned one thing from the failure that was Black March, it’s that people aren’t going to stop consuming content, no matter what. Think about it; we pirate to get stuff, so taking actions that make us stop getting stuff goes against the reason we’re pirating. It’s irrational.
      
      It would be nice if it could work, but so long as we’re fantasizing, I want a unicorn.
  - Guest
    
    SO easy: DO NOT BUY THEIR STUFF.
    
    All the money they have to spend on their attempts to take the internet came from the pockets of the public that bought their stuff.
- Mwhahaha
  
  Yeah I’m not that keen on you either. Didn’t like to mention it before.
Mwhahaha

What we, as a group need, is an aspect of our cause which can capture the wider publics imagination, make headlines, a story big enough that the traditional media can’t refuse to talk about it, like they do with so much of ‘piracy’ issues, other than the pirate bay saga.

Any ideas?
- http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn
  
  Yes. You mentioned earlier the UK paper News of the World which Murdoch was forced to close because of the appalling publicity he received over its staff hacking into people’s emails. It is worth noting that it was not the hacking of emails per se that brought about his downfall, it was the specific hacking of a murdered child’s emails. The ensuing public revulsion made the politicians eye their jobs with trepidation, and take sides accordingly. Without this highly emotive ‘blue touchpaper’ being ignited the whole thing would doubtless have been swept under the carpet by a blizzard of cheques and bullshit about terrorists.
  
  The general public is hugely more powerful than is realised, if they can, as you note, be sufficiently horrified by something. And the ones who are then in the firing line are the politicians, who, in a situation like that, can often be removed without the inconvenience of a ballot, if they choose to side with the baddies. Murdoch was prevented from buying up the whole of BSkyB by this, as well as all the other trouble it caused him.
  
  If we had the morals that the MAFIAA has we would parade before the world’s press a starving African child, ravaged with disease and covered with flies, clutching a MAFIAA court order sueing her for $1.5 million dollars for lending her dying little sister an old, scratched CD to listen to on her deathbed. Then, when the public are baying for the blood of anyone remotely connected with the American music industry we quietly mumble some apologetic bullshit about getting the pictures mixed up, then sit back and watch the politicians desert their MAFIAA paymasters like rats diving off a sinking ship.
- Steve
  
  “What are WE gonna do?” (Pure illusion.) In truth there is no “we.”
  
  The question to ask for each of us is “What am I going to do?”
  
  Speaking strictly for me, I’m going join the Pirate Party tonight. I want to hang out with movers and shakers in “real life” face to face.
  
  I want a piece of the ACTION. I’m tired of shoveling shit.
  
  Until today I was a sheep. From here on in, I’m a wolf.
  
  Thanks Mwhahah. You set me straight, a very un-american thing to do.
  - Steve
    
    @Mwhahaha
    
    Keep up the good work, Mwhahaha. You are an excellent writer.
    
    Slogan: They are watching your mother and father.
    Slogan: They are watching your sister and brother.
    Slogan: They are watching your friends.
    
    In Tibet they use self-immolation. Anyone here from Tibet?
    
    You are correct about needing a soul-stiring “theme.”
    
    The primary theme, eventually, will be hunger and poverty.
    
    Uncle Sam is seizing control of ALL COMMUNICATIONS to protect His ass (and the 1%) from the justice of the revolution that is about to begin.
    
    Sooner the better.
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Ericvonstephan

i have an idea lets just sue them. It works for them. they dont need any prof yet they still sue. So we just sue them to the dark ages for stepping all over our rights
PelouzeTF

Torrentfreak is a bunch of entitled idiots. Clearly if there hadn’t been a filter, less music would have been made in the 1930s for us to not enjoy now. If only SOPA had passed there would have been more 1930s music in existence! God, you are all such freetards.

My statements are completely accurate. May my balls drop off if they happen to be not.
- Danny
  
  No Pelozer.
  
  Maybe slightly less quantity of music but I would expect a much higher quality. The crap the major labels are pushing just needs to die. People created culture long before copyright and they will continue to afterwards.
  
  Using terms like freetard just makes you sound desperate. The RIAA labels are dying slowly as a great man once said ‘I’m just glad I’m gonna be there to watch them fall’. I really hope that once you have recovered from your balls dropping off and your pay cheque bouncing that you have time to reflect on the idiocies of your worthless life.
  - Guest
    
    Actually if you think about it, the guy is trolling. He’s alluding that if SOPA had passed, there’d be magically more music dating from the 1930s, which I doubt even the usual trolls can claim.
    
    Then again, the usual trolls are capable of claiming everything.
- Tom
  
  You’ve been trolled by someone pretending to be PelouzeTF.
- Guest
  
  Which balls?
  
  You guys in the entertainment and parasitic industry have no ball, specially you paid troll.
- flange
  
  Hilarious, PelouzeTF! Too bad most people seem to be missing your irony…
Retaliator

“my chances of: being discovered, making money. . .”

That ‘s the point.

They don’t want that because they people are going to start watching his stuff and pay him instead of them.

Now tell me why we shall not go to the MPAA and kill everyone.
http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

About time that judges realized that ordering these ‘word filters’ and ‘IP bans of sites’ have unintended consequences. Not to mention that if the sites are overseas sites, our courts are overstepping their bounds by ordering those IP bans.
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Uth

That is the right attitude specially cos Pirate Party is still in its development so good ideas can still influence ppl already there . Or my secret dream of getting ppl in charge of censor push dressed in tar and feathers and set them lose on public place :)) .

Also – I will pay over paypal to a person that sends me a picture of this : “If we had the morals that the MAFIAA has we would parade before the world’s press a starving African child, ravaged with disease and covered with flies, clutching a MAFIAA court order sueing her for $1.5 million dollars for lending her dying little sister an old, scratched CD to listen to on her deathbed. Then, when the public are baying for the blood of anyone remotely connected with the American music industry we quietly mumble some apologetic bullshit about getting the pictures mixed up, then sit back and watch the politicians desert their MAFIAA paymasters like rats diving off a sinking ship.”

Let me know and ill post how to contact meh .
- http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn
  
  Slipping such a picture ‘accidentally’ onto a popular website could be like one of those courtroom dramas where the lawyer says something he knows is inadmissable but will nonetheless have a usefully emotive effect on the jury that will linger long after the judge has struck it down.
  
  If the picture depicts something the public half expects from the media industry, no amount of retraction and denial will entirely remove from their collective subconscious the feeling that somewhere in the world the MAFIAA is trying to do exactly what is portrayed. This deep revulsion might even snowball to the point where politicians become very careful about whom they are seen to be associating with, just as in the News of the World case (see my earlier comment).
  
  It would of course be a dreadful thing to happen to those fine upstanding chaps who run the US media industry, though I expect they will quickly have the picture removed by claiming they own it. Which might turn out to be bit of a PR misjudgement.
Dont

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQKaBt-8×20

get torrentleech invite!
MadAsASnake

Keyword filters like this are bound to fail. Aside from the false positives, anyone trying to avoid the filter will simply use non-filtered keywords (not to mention that foreign proxies won’t be filtered so it is SO easy to bypass). So it hurts genuine users and as usual does little to prevent the activity it’s aimed at. In my veiw, there are only two practical ways to combat this: 1.) accept that it will happen and set your go to market plan accordingly, and 2.) have a takedown system that works on confirmed positives only.

As we know MPAA isn’t interested in the former (good for everyone except MPAA) and the latter is incredibly difficult – and unviable simply on a cost basis.

I beleive that the primary problem with what is left is that there has never been sufficient protection for collateral damage. While it is true that anybody has the right to sue, this is not really an option for most, as it is a costly and uncertain process. Also remember, that in Taylor’s case, doing so detracts from what he is trying to do (and has every right to do). The ruling for this filter should have made provision for third party damage – there are a range of things that could be done. The simplest would be some form of statutory daily damages for unwarranted blocks / takedowns. Such a system would instantly render broad filters uneconmic and get back to the 2 options above.
H23

Wow “torrent has been censored, as required by us court”?
Why not “US has been censored, as required by torrent”?
Anonymous

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Neb12

Censorship in the USA? Go figure………
What are you doing today Pinky?
foff

I rarely use iso hunt. Someone posted a proxy link that allows anyone to bypass the censored version in an article a long time ago. Judges are so fucking stupid, why make such a meaningless ruling? Most sites that have blocked us ip’s have pretty much died so while is saves legal expense and hassles in the end it does not save you.
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  True, doing that only makes a site die faster.
Exploding Diarrhea

isoHunt is going to document hash tags next and block those.
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Madderdan

Well I can still see all of Jaybob’s films on isohunt, so its not really changed much.
Jaybob is the only reason to goto isohunt.
But only releasing dvdrips is getting a bit old, he should really change to blu-ray.

I wonder when they will go after Jaybob and his crew.
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Anonymous

Wouldn’t this effectively be false accusations and open the MPAA to legal attack?
- Saniity_Vocal
  
  Taylor should sue both the Court and the MPAA for violating his constitutional Right to Free Speech. He should sue them for $1 Billion US Dollars.
  
  Effectively the Court ruling and the MPAA has made USA like the Red China.
  
  Democracy in US is Dead. Long Live Red MPAA United States.
  
  You can sing songs from Maos little red book now.!!
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Elliander Eldridge

If the MPAA’s filter directly interferes with an independent film maker loosing revenue, wouldn’t the MPAA be liable for damages? Last time I checked it was a felony to claim someone else’s intellectual property as your own. Wouldn’t this count as, technically, the MPAA expressing a copyright claim over someone else’s intellectual property? I think the film makers should file a class action lawsuit against the MPAA directly.
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