A court ordered broad injunction in the Expendable 3 leak lawsuit filed by Lionsgate has forced operators of Hulkfile to take the pinnacle decision of closing their services as they have no other option but to cease their operations.
After a DVD-quality leak of Expendables 3 nearly a month before its release, Lionsgate filed a lawsuit against unnamed individuals and six file-sharing sites including LimeTorrents, Hulkfile, Played.to, Swankshare.com, Billionuploads.com and Dotsemper.com.
The court granted a broad injunction earlier this week ordered seizure of financial assets of file operators with the possibility of domain name seizures as well.
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Hulkfile has decided to throw in the towel and according to the site’s operator they can’t keep building a business on a base that is now in tatters because of a preliminary injunction.
The file storage service has ceased its operations in the US and over the course of next few days, it will shutter its international operations as well.
In a statement to TorrentFreak, Hulkfile’s operators said: “We’re not doing anything wrong, it’s a service just like any other cloud storage service in the world. If Hulkfile was started to support piracy, then why would we have created a takedown system which provided access to more than 40 copyright holders and piracy fighters?”
Hulkfile claims that Lionsgate could have easily taken down the links themselves if they would have used the site’s removal tool, but Lionsgate’s takedown partner MarkMonitor didn’t show any interest in using the tool.
Hulkfile is closing down for good and before it does so, it will provide its users with the option of transferring their files to another service provider.
