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Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says
The operator of a popular BitTorrent search site said Monday he likely will challenge last week’s landmark decision by a U.S. judge declaring such sites unlawful, and no different from conventional peer-to-peer piracy services. “We do think from our preliminary review there are a number of issues for appeal,” said Ira Rothken, the attorney for popular torrent search engine ISO Hunt , the defendant in the case.
Continue reading »BitTorrent and RSS – Dave Winer updates
“First, let me say that it’s great that RSS is so widely supported by BitTorrent sites,” blogged Dave Winer (right), the man behind RSS, on UNBERKELEY , continuing: “When I met Bram Cohen at a Wired awards ceremony in 2003 (BitTorrent won, Skype was also nominated, as was RSS), I told him I thought the two technologies were a great match. Both were low tech, open formats for content distribution, that solved parallel problems. “So it’s great that six years later so much is being done at the intersection between BitTorrent and RSS.
Continue reading »IsoHunt’s Endeavor to Be Declared Legit Continues
Lately there has been a rather unfortunate p2p climate as headlines concerning some of the most popular torrent sites have revealed bad news all starting, of course, from legal matters. isoHunt’s founder, Gary Fung, wants to change that as he seeks for a favorable decision in court but what chances does he really have? After The Pirate Bay announced earlier this month the shutting down of its torrent tracker (but denied any connection between the decision and the legal pressure that was put onto two of the site’s founders), yesterday we reported how Mininova has finally capitulated to the entertainment industry’s joy and complied with the court’s ruling given this summer which had asked it to remove all the links to copyright protected material.
Continue reading »MiniNova down, but isoHunt lives on
With the news MiniNova has abandoned its traditional indexing service , now working only with Content Distribution, “That leaves you as probably the only major, and true, indexing site online,” p2pnet emailed isoHunt’s Gary Fung yesterday. “Do you expect to be able to to continue for the foreeeable future?” – we asked. “Nothing’s changed as far as we are concerned,” he said.
Continue reading »10 Temporary New Homes For Those Missing Demonoid
Early September we reported that Demonoid would go down for possibly-extended downtime due to some hardware problems. Two months later the site is still down and nobody seems to know how long the ‘maintenance’ will last. So where should Demonoid users go to now?
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