Only a week prior to the schedule court date between MPAA and the popular filesharing website, Hotfile both parties have agreed to an $80 million settlement. The lawsuit was originally set in motion by industry leader MPAA due to Hotfile violating multiple copyrights. Hotfile was given the option to remain open if it began to…
The popular BitTorrent search engine, isoHunt will indefinitely shut its doors within the next week. After several years of legal battles between the website and the Motion Picture Association of America, Gary Fung, isoHunt’s owner has agreed to a $110 million dollar settlement. The settlement which was issued Thursday also states that Mr. Fung will close…
In a decision that likely comes as no shock to anyone who is not named “Gary Fung,” IsoHunt founder Gary Fung suffered another loss in court last week, when a panel of judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s finding that the defendants were liable for contributory copyright infringement on…
In a study published earlier this month, professors Brett Danaher (of Wellesley College’s Department of Economics) and Michael D. Smith (from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management) conclude that the January 2012 shutdown of Megaupload positively affected the digital sales of movies for the two major film studios…
