IsoHunt has been largely irrelevant in the US for the last several years since they started filtering US IPs[1] and even before then was a pretty poor selection of torrents with many displaying completely incorrect swarm data.<p>While I'm not personally bothered by this (from the point of view of someone who used IsoHunt) I do find this settlement quite annoying and Dodd to be completely abysmal as a person.<p>_____________<p>[1] <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-redirects-us-visitors-to-lite-version-100406/" rel="nofollow">http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-redirects-us-visitors-to-lit...</a>
What's stunning to me is the $110 million dollar judgment. Did the site really make that much money, or is this a decision designed to condemn the founder to a lifetime of poverty?
MPAA doesn't get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy.<p>This is how you do it:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc</a>
More info can be found in the MPAA press release: <a href="http://mpaa.org/resources/52c16680-37ab-4f0a-9756-b850fe37ca1c.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://mpaa.org/resources/52c16680-37ab-4f0a-9756-b850fe37ca...</a><p>The shut down date os Oct 23, 2013 (in a week from now).