IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million 245
hypnosec writes "The MPAA and Gary Fung, owner of IsoHunt.com, have settled their case out of court, with the torrent indexing site closing as part of the deal. The judge presiding over the MPAA vs. IsoHunt.com case, Jacqueline Chooljian, canceled the hearing which was planned after she was informed that both the parties have settled outside court. 'The website isoHunt.com today agreed to halt all operations worldwide in connection with a settlement of the major movie studios' landmark copyright lawsuit against the site and its operator Gary Fung' reads the press release."
Only a few days after the MPAA was accosted by the judge for seeking damages several times the total worth of isoHunt: "But if you strip him of all his assets — and you’re suggesting that a much lesser number of copyright infringements would accomplish that, where is the deterrence by telling the world that you took someone’s resources away because of illegal conduct entirely or 50 times over?" Still, the settlement seems unfair: The MPAA has asked the court for $110 million, when the MPAA itself admitted that isoHunt only has $5 or $6 million. So much for the optimism for isoHunt's successor.
Fortunately we still have Google. (Score:5, Funny)
The best torrent search engine ever will never bow to this kind of bullying crap. Long live Google!
perplexed (Score:2, Funny)
That certainly was a very confusing farewell message...
Re:Dysfunctional legal system. (Score:5, Funny)
A standard Monopoly game has $15,140.
Best price for a Monopoly game I could find was $17
110 million would take the cash from 7266 games.
At a total cost of $123,522
Look at that, A plan with no flaws.
Re:another solution, proven to work (Score:4, Funny)
Do you think people who use an antenna are also free loading scumbags?
and then there is this:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones [theoatmeal.com]
99 cents per episode for a tv series is outrages.
Re:another solution, proven to work (Score:2, Funny)
I'd happily pay $5000 for a BMW, it's not available at that price so I don't buy one. I don't steal one either, though.
Jeff
Re:Trolled (Score:5, Funny)
a corporation won't stop individuals for being charged with crimes
Unless it's a really big corporation.