isoHunt files appeal in 4-year battle against MPAA censorship

[wconeybeer]

isoHunt files appeal in 4-year battle against MPAA censorship.

[newsimage]http://static.rankone.nl/images_posts/2010/12/DlHewR.jpg[/newsimage]isoHunt, a BitTorrent search engine that has been battling the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) since 2006, filed an appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court last Friday to fight a permanent injunction issued last summer forcing them to institute a site-wide filter preventing thousands of specific keywords set by the movie industry.


Read the full article here: [http://www.myce.com/news/isohunt-files-appeal-in-4-year-battle-against-mpaa-censorship-38021/](http://www.myce.com/news/isohunt-files-appeal-in-4-year-battle-against-mpaa-censorship-38021/)


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[debro]

When the ruling of this appeal is handed down, it’s going to be a decision that has wide-reaching implications. Allowing the US to control domains hosted off of domestic soil, and censoring the phrases that can be queried by a search engine both seem like something out of a science-fiction novel. I sincerely hope that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals can make a sensible ruling that upholds the civil liberties of US citizens.

I hope the Canadian government gives the US the finger and says mind your own damn citizens.

[iamrocket]

i wish Canada had the nuts to do that, but we constantly cave in to whatever the US wants.