MiniNova down, but isoHunt lives on
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With the news MiniNova has abandoned its traditional indexing service, now working only with Content Distribution, “That leaves you as probably the only major, and true, indexing site online,” p2pnet emailed isoHunt’s Gary Fung yesterday.
“Do you expect to be able to to continue for the foreeeable future?” – we asked.
“Nothing’s changed as far as we are concerned,” he said.
Based in Vancouver, BC, isoHunt is, of course, a mere ferryride from p2pnet’s palatial central complex on Vancouver Island.
With isoHunt as the only substantial surviving indexing citadel, Gary posts he’s already written a fair bit about his legal struggle with CRIA going on, “Since CRIA’s initial cease and desist letters (effectively asking us to shutdown entirely), we have tried to reason with CRIA, have petitioned the court on our legal right to exist as a search engine. Both to no avail, since Judge Curtis has denied our ‘petition’ as improper form, and have ordered us to a normal, lengthy and costly legal ‘action’. We have done that this week.”
The CRIA is Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s bumbling RIAA clone, the Canadian Recording Industry Association of America)
Gary continues »»»
Here’s our Statement of Claim (pdf) we just filed for our action at the BC Supreme Court.
As I’ve written to the Canadian government in the public consultation for upcoming copyright reform, I have high hopes for Canadian copyright laws and its courts to not make the mistakes that have been made elsewhere in the world. We must fight the increasing noise we are drowned in, that file sharing is stealing.
I believe we Canadians are especially blessed with musical talent such as Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, Nelly Furtado, Lights and many others. So many that our “cultural output” per capita is arguably greater than that of many other countries. And we have done this without the excessive litigation against consumers that the legal climate in countries like our southern neighbor has encouraged. Thanks in part to our lack of DMCA-like copyright laws that does more harm than good.
With continued changes in both the digital marketplace and usage of P2P search engines like isoHunt, I believe now is a better time than ever to put our differences aside with copyright owners, and figure out how we can utilize P2P distribution and social media for the benefit of all.
The internet has widened our choice in music more than ever before, and the music industry is live and well contrary to lies of certain lobbyists. The EU have also commissioned a study that found, P2P is not to blame for failures of certain parts of content industries. Why? How? Because P2P is the greatest radio ever.
If you are a musician and agree with us, we would love to hear from you! We have already heard many interesting feedback, like that of a book author, we want to hear more. And I cordially invite you to join our new spinoff, Hexagon.cc. Together, we can create a better future for content distribution and sharing. Same goes out to film makers, software and game developers.
“As for CRIA and member record labels, if you come to your sense of reason, I would love to talk to you outside of court,” says Gary, adding:
” The ball you’ve dropped on us is back to you.”
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With the news MiniNova has abandoned its traditional indexing service, now working only with Content Distribution, “That leaves you as probably the only major, and true, indexing site online,” p2pnet emailed isoHunt’s Gary Fung yesterday.
“Do you expect to be able to to continue for the foreeeable future?” – we asked.
“Nothing’s changed as far as we are concerned,” he said.
Based in Vancouver, BC, isoHunt is, of course, a mere ferryride from p2pnet’s palatial central complex on Vancouver Island.
With isoHunt as the only substantial surviving indexing citadel, Gary posts he’s already written a fair bit about his legal struggle with CRIA going on, “Since CRIA’s initial cease and desist letters (effectively asking us to shutdown entirely), we have tried to reason with CRIA, have petitioned the court on our legal right to exist as a search engine. Both to no avail, since Judge Curtis has denied our ‘petition’ as improper form, and have ordered us to a normal, lengthy and costly legal ‘action’. We have done that this week.”
The CRIA is Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s bumbling RIAA clone, the Canadian Recording Industry Association of America)
Gary continues »»»
Here’s our Statement of Claim (pdf) we just filed for our action at the BC Supreme Court.
As I’ve written to the Canadian government in the public consultation for upcoming copyright reform, I have high hopes for Canadian copyright laws and its courts to not make the mistakes that have been made elsewhere in the world. We must fight the increasing noise we are drowned in, that file sharing is stealing.
I believe we Canadians are especially blessed with musical talent such as Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, Nelly Furtado, Lights and many others. So many that our “cultural output” per capita is arguably greater than that of many other countries. And we have done this without the excessive litigation against consumers that the legal climate in countries like our southern neighbor has encouraged. Thanks in part to our lack of DMCA-like copyright laws that does more harm than good.
With continued changes in both the digital marketplace and usage of P2P search engines like isoHunt, I believe now is a better time than ever to put our differences aside with copyright owners, and figure out how we can utilize P2P distribution and social media for the benefit of all.
The internet has widened our choice in music more than ever before, and the music industry is live and well contrary to lies of certain lobbyists. The EU have also commissioned a study that found, P2P is not to blame for failures of certain parts of content industries. Why? How? Because P2P is the greatest radio ever.
If you are a musician and agree with us, we would love to hear from you! We have already heard many interesting feedback, like that of a book author, we want to hear more. And I cordially invite you to join our new spinoff, Hexagon.cc. Together, we can create a better future for content distribution and sharing. Same goes out to film makers, software and game developers.
“As for CRIA and member record labels, if you come to your sense of reason, I would love to talk to you outside of court,” says Gary, adding:
” The ball you’ve dropped on us is back to you.”
