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Studios Sue Swedish ISP, Demand Closure of OpenBitTorrent

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 18, 2009 - 11:54am.
Los Angeles - Several Hollywood movie studios have filed suit against a Swedish ISP that is hosting OpenBitTorrent, an independent BitTorrent file-sharing tracker site that was launched in the wake of the The Pirate Bay's announced sale to Global Gaming Factory, TorrentFreak reported. The studios sued hosting provider Portlane, demanding that it shutter the OpenBitTorrent website.

"OpenBitTorrent is used for file sharing, and we suspect that it is the Pirate Bay tracker with a new name. It is added by default on all of the torrent tracker files on Pirate Bay," Hollywood lawyer Monique Wadsted told TorrentFreak.

The company has previously fought similar demands to shutter BitTorrent sites brought by record label trade group IFPI.

"OpenBitTorrent is not linked to a torrent site where users can download or search for torrents," TorrentFreak noted.

"The tracker is merely assisting in connecting peers with each other based on a hash value, without having any control over, or knowledge of what is being tracked."

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/tb01d (TorrentFreak)

http://openbittorrent.com

Published in DMW Daily, November 18, 2009
tags: Video | Law | Lawsuits | P2P | Music | Copyright | The Pirate Bay | OpenBitTorrent | Portlane |



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