Isohunt judge says MPAA has yet to prove direct infringment | Digital Media - ... - The Diigo Meta page

• 30 Aug 09
  

  Patrick O'Keefe
  • Motion Picture Association of America asked a federal court
  • U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson
  • 7 more annotations...
  • • yet to prove that the Isohunt's users had broken U.S. law.
    • MPAA until Sept. 15 to file a brief that convinces him direct infringement at the site was committed by those in the U.S.
    • Wilson has questions about whether U.S. residents have pirated content using Isohunt.
    • "United States copyright laws do not reach acts of infringement that take place entirely abroad,"
    • Ira Rothken, Isohunt's attorney
    • Rothken is hoping to argue Isohunt's case before a jury, something that no other BitTorrent sites have managed to do.
    • "We're cautiously optimistic Judge Wilson will deny plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and ultimately there will be a trial on the merits."
• 28 Aug 09
  

  Jonathan Bailey

  124 mpaa isohunt

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