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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Gideon, you are impressive. You pile bullshit on top of crap on top of misrepresentation, and then you expect us to respect the mountain you have made. Reality, it is still a stinky hill of shit.
Did you know, example, that ISOHunt has blocked access to their trackers to people in the US, as a dodge to avoid lawsuits in the US? Canada isn't anything like Sweden when it comes to copyright laws, and we gladly will allow the american companies to sue the living crap out of companies or individuals who distribute copyrighted material into the US.
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"Update: Spike
Apparently some P2P news sites are falsely reporting that we are blocking US visitors from using the isoHunt website itself. Let me say this is NOT the case. As reported above we are blocking US visitors ONLY to the BitTorrent TRACKERS we run. This will NOT affect torrents obtained from isoHunt unless these torrents only use said trackers that are isoHunt operated. "
i have already said that trackers are a potential contributory infringement in the states. and I have pointed out that ISOHUNT made the mistake of allowing themselves to be bound by these laws because they used a host with a change of venue clause so this is not to suprising.
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Interestingly, this is a true indication that much of what is on ISOHunt isn't legal, as they are having to artificially limit distribution. Also, there is no protection under Canadian law for distributing illegal content (such as camcordered movies), and a new law passed very specifically makes that an illegal act. Canada also has very strict CP laws, and if any CP shows up on ISOHunt's trackers, they would be in serious shit. In order for ISOHunt to stay legal in Canada, they are having to make major, major changes to their service and content. They certainly won't be the open and freewheeling "wild west" of torrents. In fact, if you read their site closely, they look more like they are trying to move to a fiel distribution model for open source / public license software, because the current situation is not tolerable.
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again they need to produce as many fair use examples of the torrent to justify a ruling like betamax ruling. If there are no fair use or legitimate uses of the technology then the arguement that the technology as a whole need to be shut down will falsely win.
Advertising these legitimate uses is just good business sense.
It not an admission of guilt like you want to represent it as.
i suggest you read it again, this is exactly the intermediary infringement i was explaining to SF.
canadian law recognizes this type of actions, it basically a request to the isp to cancel the people sharing this particular file.
if you are using the torrent in a legitimate way you can stop such a request with a simple 1 page letter explaining why you have a fair use right to download the file.
under that situation the fact that the copyright holder can actually shut down the people who can't prove to their isp have a right to the content, means you can trust that all the members also have legitimate rights.
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While i am sharing with other people on tvtorrents.com i know that every one of them have similar rights to the content. If they were violating the copyright by their actions then they would fail to produce the proof that i have produced and their isp would have no choice but to cancel their service. This cancelation would eliminate them from the swarm which i was participating in.
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like i have repeatedly said go after the seeder who are illegally sharing your content and everyone wins.
Go after the torrent files and the trackers you are taking away fair use rights from the legitimate users.