ant-piracy news
josephHarris <joe9438-/[email protected]> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:20:14 +0100
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The size of the fine suggests torrents are very profitable businesses indeed; so much for any principled arguments about "information wants to be free". Clearly - if it even means anything - it is not genuine on torrents or pirate sites. An example of Google's deep pocket doing us some good. ITsoHuntgiantha <http://stopebooktheft.com/isohunt-shuts-down/> Isohunt shuts down http://stopebooktheft.com/isohunt-shuts-down/ "agreed to pay a $110 million fine (It could have been up to $600 million otherwise) and to shut down IsoHunt <http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/17/4849900/bittorrent-site-isohunt-shutting-down-after-defeat-in-court>."