Now Hollywood wants Hotfile taken offline

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Hollywood is calling on the US courts to force Hotfile, the popular file-sharing site, offline following similar action against Megaupload.

Court papers unsealed this week reveal that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed a motion for a summary judgement.

If approved, the move could lead to action against the service without the need for a lengthy trial.

Hotfile says it removes copyright-infringing files on request.

Details of the development were revealed by Mediapost News and the Torrentfreak blog.

It marks the latest step in the film studios' year-long legal effort to have Hotfile shut down.
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The court papers name Disney, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros as the plaintiffs.

They claim that "Hotfile actively fosters the massive copyright infringement that fuels its business", adding that "more than 90% of the files downloaded from Hotfile are copyright infringing, and nearly every Hotfile user is engaged in copyright infringement".

The studios claim that Hotfile's business model is "indistinguishable" from that of Megaupload and draw attention to its affiliate programme.

This offered users payments based on how many times their files had been downloaded. The studios claim this encouraged "the uploading of 'popular' (ie infringing) content".
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17300225
 
Taking down a pirates den sounds good to me. Poor old Jack Sparrow will have to find a new safe haven. :p
 
Since MU went down loads of new file storage sites have popped up and I'm sure will keep popping up if/when HF goes down..no problemo :)
 
Wikipedia said:
In Hotfile's Privacy Policy under the 'Usage Data' section they state "We automatically collect usage information...type of Web browser you use, your operating system, your Internet Service Provider, your IP address, the links you use, and the time and duration of your use of the Service...be aware, however, that we may be required to disclose information such as your IP address which could be used by others to attempt to identify you." This is of concern to many Hotfile users that believe in proper privacy instead of logging every users actions. All of this data resides on US servers making it extremely easy for the courts to order Hotfile to hand it over. This policy of logging IP's and associating them with items downloaded is the completely opposite approach to website such as Fileserve and Rapidshare.
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Since this information ought to be available to "Hollywood", I don't see why they don't simply require access to the download logs and go after the pirates directly?

I would have thought that in the barbaric USA, piracy would result in the death penalty at an absolute minimum :D
 
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Sigh, I host a lot of legitimate files there... it looks like I'll have to back them up to other sites since I don't want to be forced into the same position all of megaupload users are in.
 
I can't imagine what the Internet/WWW will be like in 5 / 10 years time the way things are going.....

There's only so much restrictions and censorship people will take before it all kicks off & considering the people of the UK and America are already starting to "see" only what our governments allow us to see - whilst every last detail of who we are and what we are doing is being logged without question - it looks like it can only get a lot worse.
 
Heliospherez said:
I can't imagine what the Internet/WWW will be like in 5 / 10 years time the way things are going.....

There's only so much restrictions and censorship people will take before it all kicks off & considering the people of the UK and America are already starting to "see" only what our governments allow us to see - whilst every last detail of who we are and what we are doing is being logged without question - it looks like it can only get a lot worse.
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Yeah I have the same view - I wonder what it will be like in 5 - 10 years... Bit scary considering how fast they are on ripping stuff down...
 
A2Z said:
Since MU went down loads of new file storage sites have popped up and I'm sure will keep popping up if/when HF goes down..no problemo :)
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This. Reminds me of the Hydra's, cut off the head of one and another 2 spring up in its place. This is the internet afterall :cool:
 
In 10 years or so people will have moved on from the internet. Something else will be out. I hope...
 
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