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Hotfile must share its user data with the MPAA
FILE SHARING WEB SITE Hotfile has had a significant loss in its battle with rightsholders' body the MPAA and must hand over its user data.
The music industry cartel has been after Hotfile and a number of other digital locker sites for some time now and as recently as July was pushing ahead in its plans to extract legal satisfaction. Torrent Freak reports that the MPAA now has gained the right to receive Hotfile's user information from the firm.
In July the MPAA had the support of the ruling judge, who said, "The complaint alleges that hotfile.com is a Web site that Hotfile uses to promote copyright infringement and alleges that Hotfile took affirmative steps to foster this infringement by creating a structured business model that encourages users to commit copyright infringement."
He added, "At this stage, that suffices to plead a claim for inducing copyright infringement." The case did go forward, and now the MPAA has been granted the right to get the data it wants.
Hotfile has called the MPAA's campaign "murder by litigation" and possibly sees this ruling to hand over user and affiliate data as a knife to its throat.
Although the firm argued against the ruling, saying that it went against the privacy interests of its users, it will have to disclose a good deal of information about files uploaded to its servers. This will include their titles as well as the number of downloads and the IP addresses of the uploaders and downloaders. µ
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Just like the dinosaur that is to stupid to realize it's been mortally wounded the music and movie industry thrashes around hitting out where ever it thinks it sees danger while it's insides are devoured by progress!!The only thing that allows this group to continue is the government and courts they bought and payed for,it's time the courts made rulings for the people not the companies.
This really only applies to companies which are legally reachable by the MPAA companies. This does not apply in, say, Russia, China, Brazil, Venezuela, and many other countries. These sites will just simply move to those countries and be done with it. They will also get domain names that are not subject to US government authority (e. g. .ru, .cn, .br, etc.). This is nothing new and no surprise to anybody who thinks for even a moment about security.
There are so many services based in the virtual and actual world that could be used for illegal purposes. Even if they ruin Hotfile, there are so many other ways to share files that it's a battle they'll never win unless there are new laws put in place, and those laws would need to be so draconian that they'd never pass. Well, maybe...
Unfortunately, anyone who offers services that might be used for illegal purposes has to keep a tab on their customers.
are they such retards? They shouldn't even store the IP addresses or e-mail addresses of either uploaders or downloaders anywhere. Why do they even keep it, for blackmailing purposes?