The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) will now have a say in standards review process at the W3C – specifically the one that seeks to protect interests of copyright holders on…
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Hotfile shuts down for good
Hotfile has permanently shut down for good without any prior warning just hours after $80 million settlement with the MPAA. The decision is rather drastic considering that the digital locker isn’t providing…
Hotfile settles with MPAA for $80 million
Hotfile has settled with Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and under the terms will have to part with a whopping $80 million and implement “digital fingerprinting” copyright filtering technology. The digital…
Google delists ExtraTorrent.cc homepage from search results
Google has removed the new home of ExtraTorrent – ExtraTorrent.cc – from its search results are MPPA and its members sent out targeting DMCA requests to Google. ExtraTorrent.com was seized last month…
IsoHunt.com shuts early; Gary Fung says “I’ll be backkk”
IsoHunt.com has finally been taken down – over a week after Gary Fung, its owner, settled with MPAA outside of court. Through a plain and simple message titled Initiating Self Destruct, Gary…
Gary Fung on IsoHunt settlement: “It’s sad to see my baby go”
Update IsoHunt.com shuts early; Gary Fung says “I’ll be backkk” Original Story Gary Fung, founder of IsoHunt.com, and MPAA settled outside of court yesterday sending a shockwave through the torrent world as…
Breaking: IsoHunt.com settles with MPAA, will shut down as part of the deal
Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has revealed today that Gary Fung, owner of IsoHunt.com, has agreed to a settlement and as a part of the deal the torrent indexing site will…