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MPAA launches assault on P2P

18 January 2007 4:50 by Dave "Davedough" Horvath | 39 comments

MPAA launches assault on P2P People in the peer-to-peer sharing scene shouldn't be the least bit unfamiliar with possibly one of the biggest name in Bit Torrent, Isohunt.com. In an all out assault on stopping the spread of illegal content, the Motion Picture Association of America launched a police sting on the ISP that housed the servers providing data transmission for the search engine.

This attack came without warning and all of the servers which housed databases of information have been seized for evidence against the company. Isohunt's servers were housed in the US where they were legal territory for the MPAA to pick them apart with copyright infringment laws.

Isohunt had become a target for the MPAA approximately a year ago when they filed a lawsuit against the company that alleged massive accounts of copyright infringement. There is some speculation that this shutdown is a direct result of that legal action, but the MPAA has yet to announce victory on their website, as they're usually very quick to do.

In a statement on their website, Isohunt administrators posted this "Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt related to our lawsuit brought by the MPAA, but we don't have more information at this time until people responsible comes to work tomorrow. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our current ISP, or we get new hardware ready at our new ISP."

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    craftyzan (Member) 18 January 2007 13:22 Send private message to this user   
    MPAA sounds like it's gettin' desperate.
    georgeluv (Member) 18 January 2007 13:30 Send private message to this user   
    they took down supernova, then 18 million torrent search engines popped up. if it took them this long to take down another major torrent search engine its looking pretty bleak for the MPAA. ill bet iso hunt is back up and running within a week just like pirate bay. looks like the MPAA is having a harder and harder time taking these sites down.
    coleken3 (Newbie) 18 January 2007 16:12 Send private message to this user   
    Looks as if SloTorrent.net is down to.

    Back up now.

    This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19 January 2007 1:29

    PeaInAPod (AfterDawn Addict) 18 January 2007 17:50 Send private message to this user   
    Kinda off topic, but this is another reason I would love to see ThePirateBay buy SeaLand and become their own nation.
    Gplanet (Newbie) 19 January 2007 1:08 Send private message to this user   
    TorrentBox down
    solarf (Member) 19 January 2007 6:27 Send private message to this user   
    does anyone know when Iso hunt will be back? I thought they were moving to Canada?
    Mr-Movies (Member) 19 January 2007 9:15 Send private message to this user   
    Since the Millennium act big money can get away with whatever they want regardless of common sense and what is just. And it’s not just the US most other countries are taking the same position. It’s funny that because someone else does it we must do it that way as well, apparently we can only follow forget about thinking for ourselves. This is a sign of the complete corruption in our system and it is only getting worst. Now a lot of cities are install cameras all over the place so they can watch over us. The sad thing is the masses don’t seem to care and are brainwashed that it is for their own good. The old book 1984 sums all of this up plus more and when it came out people thought no way that could never happen, but now that it is happening no one even sees the ramifications.

    It’s good being sheep…
    solarf (Member) 19 January 2007 9:18 Send private message to this user   
    I agree We are sheep and by the way George Orwells book you mentioned totally awesome and quite realistic when compared to what is happening today.
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 19 January 2007 9:40 Send private message to this user   
    Mr-Movies
    this is why I have put the breaks on giving money to the "man".
    joe777 (Member) 19 January 2007 14:45 Send private message to this user   
    Nobody took down TPB it was a hoax while they upgraded. Just to let you know me harties he he he
    borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 19 January 2007 20:21 Send private message to this user   
    Another one of the greats are in trouble because again the MPAA is at it again. But i gather this is not going to stop isohunt. It may slow them down and halt proceedings but not stop.
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 19 January 2007 23:03 Send private message to this user   
    borhan9
    gives them an excuse to fully update/over haul things to ^^

    isohunt at 1/20/07 4AM east cost is still down.
    cappyx (Inactive) 20 January 2007 4:52 Send private message to this user   
    The MPAA should arrest itself and Cr*ppywood for causing the stress and suffering of poeple with thier bad movies. it would seem logical to me that if people are happy watching grainy cheap p2p movies with shaking and hands moving on the screen that the content it self must be of the same quality.
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 20 January 2007 5:23 Send private message to this user   
    cappyx
    or enforce CP/IP law thier within or investigate when a corperation seals ideas from poor indavendauls or creators of franchises/brands/characters that never see a dime of the money they deserve.
    raceman94 (Member) 20 January 2007 6:29 Send private message to this user   
    Damn MPAA! They're accomplishing something all right...they managing to create more hate against 'em! to hell with the MPAA!
    Ballpyhon (Inactive) 20 January 2007 18:48 Send private message to this user   
    Let them shut down these servers all they want. People will always find ways to relocate. DATA is copyable and is abundant. no matter what they do, there is more of us than there is of them. STRENGTH IN NUMBERS!!!!!


    There is no right, no wrong, only popular opinion.
    juaneryle (Member) 20 January 2007 20:37 Send private message to this user   
    Should your ISP be allowed to turn over your personal info to the MPAA?
    raceman94 (Member) 20 January 2007 20:44 Send private message to this user   
    Hell no! I'd drop 'em in a heartbeat and go somewhere. Of course the next ISP would probably do the same, and we'd be back at square one! So, as the say..."damned if you do, damned if you don't"!
    PWNed100 (Inactive) 22 January 2007 4:13 Send private message to this user   
    IsoHunt has kicked MPAA's butt in legal battles before...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsoHunt#Letters_from_the_MPAA
    Im sure they'll win this time too
    georgeluv (Member) 22 January 2007 8:44 Send private message to this user   
    EVERYONE CALM DOWN ITS BACK UP! haha, i cant even use bittorrent cause my isp has no competition thanks to our great laws and government here in america, and they give a two stike limit for warnings for sharing copywrited material. i refuse to leech also, ill just use gnutella 2 it works just as good in my opinion, just not as many old obscure movies and tv shows. but i can get the tv shows from irc.
    BludRayne (Junior Member) 22 January 2007 9:34 Send private message to this user   
    Oh isohunt, how I've missed you. Happy days!
    Gplanet (Newbie) 22 January 2007 14:30 Send private message to this user   
    breath of iso air!!!!
    c4lvin (Newbie) 22 January 2007 17:49 Send private message to this user   
    man the MPAA can go suck a dick those bastards
    xhardc0re (Inactive) 27 January 2007 22:52 Send private message to this user   
    I agree with c4lvin. As long as its the female lawyers doing the sucking :)
    As for the M.A.F.I.A.A., well isohunt should simply say "any files on that computer may not be valid as we were hacked approx 24 hours before the raid". LOL Then they could present a legal argument in court that the MPAA hacked their box & added illegal content. So their snapshot of the system, right after it was seized, is not the true data that was on it before the hack.
    craftyzan (Member) 28 January 2007 0:31 Send private message to this user   
    Format war....figure out a way to zip the files in such a way as to obscure the files from prying eyes? We all know about zipping files and such...just an idea...
    xhardc0re (Inactive) 28 January 2007 0:58 Send private message to this user   
    Use the software program called MUTE, share only with trusted friends, rename files with 1 and O and other numbers in place of names. don't bother sharing crappy h0llywood movies. tell everyone you know how to get around DRM...there are many ways.
    i dream of a day when I can buy something, back it up for myself & not spend hours doing it. or risk arrest & prison.
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