They have proven beyond a shadow of doubt thet they will refuse to let go of an out dated busniess model that doesn’t work in todays society. So what makes anyone think they will stop with these “shut downs” and C&D letters? These companies are literally looking death ion the face and they aren’t going to go silently. Of course to skirt death would only require some open mindedness and innovation. if they would rather kick and scream while the reaper drags them to oblivion it is fine by me. well over half the stuff they make these days is void of any entertainment value anyway.

Duh everyone…the riaa and mpaa secretly own both pirate bay and isohunt, and probably others! They use the sites as covert sting operations to collect ip addresses and file download data so in the future they can be like,

“Yo judge! See here…all of these different ip’s have been downloading all of these different files! With some simple algebra that we’ve taken the liberty to do, you can see that they’ve downloaded over eleventy billion billion zillion dollars worth of movies and music! Make file-sharing illegal! Do it! Just do it!”

BTW I patented that whole scenario, so if it actually happens, I’m suing.

isohunt isn’t back up until (hopefully) tomorrow or so, they’re transferring all their data over to their isp now. it’s still isohunt.com … mike was lying about them being back up in hours, unless by a website being back up he means they’ve simply found another isp and have yet to actually put the page back up yet….

THere is a free torrent search tool made by MessiahAndrw (google for him, I can’t remember where he posted it), which searches three major torrent search engines and aggregates the results as links. It does require you to download a program to use it, but I am pretty sure it is safe since I have seen him use it on many occasions on his own computer. I may post a URL if I find it.

I think the author of this article is being a bit preemptive. As of 21:05 EST on 17 Jan 2007, isohunt is all but down save for a few status updates, and seems to be a ways away from being fully operational.
Go isohunt! Woe to author.

isoHunt is my hero
it is my selected torrent searcher of choice
i use uTorrent as my torrent program, and of its little in program searches, isoHunt is the best imo (piratebay is on there too, if that floats your boat)
even though the MAFIAA is too stupid to ever admit this, i download movies like this to screen for which ones are worth buying in the store
sicne going out the movies costs lotta munnys these days, i just download them once out on dvd, watch, and if i like it, go out and buy it (gasp!!!)
So, by my downloading, they are making more money than they would otherwise (in my case)

Never heart of it… Until now. 🙂 Thanks MPAA/RIAA

Once upon a time, the creators of sociologically important works of art starved, or were paid by wealthy patrons who were then able to horde the art, and trade works of art with other members of the wealthy elite with similar tastes and inclinations. I see the possibility of us returning to those days.

Let’s say copyright infringement becomes really widespread, and dominates music, film, photography and literature — we’re clearly on the way to that point now. While P2P sharing and such helps the no-name aspiring artists, it does little for the big names. But once an artist HAS a big name (say, Stephen King), it may become more financially lucrative, when he creates a new work, to sell it, not to the masses, but as a one-of-a-kind to the highest bidder. (Who could then duplicate it, or hoard it to trade with other wealthy people, or whatever.) So, I have no fear that artists, at least those with large amounts of talent, will end up starving. They certainly will not. What might happen though is that the *common man* may lose access to an increasingly large amount of art. After all, you CAN’T copy a work of art for which there exists only one, and over which the artist has complete control. It is only after it goes to distribution that art is routinely and widely copied. By reverting back to the medieval wealthy-patron-sponsorship, established big name artists could simply bypass the common man completely.

Paul Atreides said in Dune (and I paraphrase), “He who can destroy a thing has the ultimate power over that thing.” Obviously, when there exists but one copy of a particular work, he who possesses that sole copy has the ultimate control. The artists have that power, and should they ever realize it and band together, there’s nothing the common man could do about that.

Another thing artists could do, and again this works only very well for big names, is to pre-sell their work. For example, Eminem (or whoever) creates a new album. He has the sole copy of it. He makes a lower-grade version of it, 96k mps, 128k mp3, whatever, and releases THAT freely. Everyone copies it, everyone loves it, but they want a high-quality version. The catch is, *nobody* gets a quality version until AND UNLESS he makes X dollars in advance, with each pre-sold copy costing Y dollars. He could fiddle some with X and Y to see what numbers produce the most money, but the point is, that particular work remains unpirateable UNTIL he makes that much money. No P2P-ing a copy, no buying a CD and making copies for friends, no trading external HDs, all irrelevant, because there’s only one high quality version of that work in existence, until his minimum number of pre-sales has been achieved. If that never happens, he could revise X and Y, or auction it off to a wealthy person, or just destroy it and deprive human society of that particular work. His work, his property, his call, not a thing anyone could do or say about that.

The next few years will be interesting, that’s for sure!

the wheel keeps turning but nothing is changing. Why dont they (the RIAA and MPAA) just stop and take a few steps back and see if there is a way they can make money FROM filesharers other than suing them and making them look bad in the public eye. Cant we all just get along.