IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
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Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#2IsoHunt has been largely irrelevant in the US for the last several years since they started filtering US IPs[1] and even before then was a pretty poor selection of torrents with many displaying completely incorrect swarm data.
While I'm not personally bothered by this (from the point of view of someone who used IsoHunt) I do find this settlement quite annoying and Dodd to be completely abysmal as a person.
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[1] http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-redirects-us-visitors-to-lit...
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#3What's stunning to me is the $110 million dollar judgment. Did the site really make that much money, or is this a decision designed to condemn the founder to a lifetime of poverty?
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#4MPAA doesn't get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy.
This is how you do it:
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#5MPAA doesn't get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy. This is how you do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc
Then perhaps they're not really trying to defeat piracy? If they're trying to justify the position of middle-men (say, recording studios in music), then the lawsuits show them adding value. Even when distribution is no longer difficult, thanks to the internet.
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#6What's stunning to me is the $110 million dollar judgment. Did the site really make that much money, or is this a decision designed to condemn the founder to a lifetime of poverty?
It said $150,000 per infringement (!) and I highly doubt the site made anywhere near that amount in revenue, let alone profit
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#7Oh no! What is 2004 me going to do to find torrents now?
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#8What's stunning to me is the $110 million dollar judgment. Did the site really make that much money, or is this a decision designed to condemn the founder to a lifetime of poverty?
Note that the amount is 100% the same as TorrentSpy had to pay back in 2008: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/05/torrentspy-ordere...
I think this is not a coincidence.
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#9More info can be found in the MPAA press release: http://mpaa.org/resources/52c16680-37ab-4f0a-9756-b850fe37ca...
The shut down date os Oct 23, 2013 (in a week from now).
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#10What's stunning to me is the $110 million dollar judgment. Did the site really make that much money, or is this a decision designed to condemn the founder to a lifetime of poverty?
It said $150,000 per infringement (!) and I highly doubt the site made anywhere near that amount in revenue, let alone profit
> let alone profit
I don't understand why people think torrent websites are not profitable. Reddit and TF comments always claim it's not-for-profit. IsoHunt might not have as much profit as TPB due to it's constant lawsuits. However, hosting a website like IsoHunt is fairly lightweight in comparison to hosting YouTube. Torrents are tiny files, $30k server bills per month at most, probably they spend $10k/mo. They have ads and paid membership. I doubt they earn $110 million, but I do believe it's likely that they atleast earn $4 mill per year. Keep in mind there website has a lot of traffic.