isohunt loses big

[deadrats]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/judge-slams-isohunt-infringement-old-w...new-bottle.ars

The movie studies have won another major legal victory in the ongoing war against file sharing, this one against an individual (Gary Fung) who ran a number of torrent search sites, including the popular isoHunt.

the truth of the matter is that it won't make on bit of difference if isohunt is shut down (which i don't think it will be, my guess is Fung will just move hosting to servers located in another country), as there are a number of torrent sites out there that operate outside u.s. law and in many ways are better than even the old pirate bay was (one in particular is amazing).

the studios need to squeeze their heads out of their asses and realize that if you can't beat them, join them. they need to put up their own torrent site, that's a pay for site, where prospective customer can choose from any movie and tv show he wants, say 5 bucks a download, guaranteed quality, perhaps 720p with guaranteed download speeds.

in all honesty a lot of the stuff you find on torrent sites now is crap, poorly encoded, if they offered a reasonably priced alternative that was of much higher quality, i think they would find that they would make money hand over fist.

[Lucifers_Ghost]

I think its a great idea. The only problem is that after so long of fighting "the big bad downloaders," joining them would be a big slap in the face to their self righteousness.