![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Thou shalt not steal.’ But to me,Įven copyright infringement when it occurs may not necessarily be For example, the court cites the following statement by Fung: ![]() In fact, it looks like the court interpreted any time Fung mentioned “stealing” to mean support for copyright infringement, even if the words he stated were actually suggesting something different. The court relies on the fact that IsoHunt owner Gary Fung made many statements that could be read as inducing infringement, but most of the statements appear to have been taken out of context. This isn’t a huge surprise, given how courts have ruled previously, but there are some oddities in the ruling, which you can see below: While the judge in the case had earlier pointed out that the MPAA failed to show actual evidence of infringement of copyrights by US users on IsoHunt, that still didn’t stop the judge from granting summary judgment to the movie studios, saying that because IsoHunt induced infringement, it loses, no trial needed. One of the many lawsuits against file sharing sites/search engines around the world is the IsoHunt lawsuit - yet another case where the entertainment industry decided a marginal player in the space didn’t have enough attention and sued. Wed, Dec 23rd 2009 08:39pm - Mike Masnick ![]()
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