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"by Ernesto Torrentspy and Isohunt announced that they will give content owners a “carte blanche” to remove torrents from their BitTorrent search engines last month. The perfect solution for content owners and site admins says Torrentspy - a nightmare according to The Pirate Bay. It all started when Torrentspy owner Justin launched a .torrent removal system called “FileRights” that content owners can use to take down “infringing” torrents. From now on, the FileRights system will be used on Torrentspy and Isohunt, two BitTorrent sites that were sued last year by the MPAA.  This basically means that the content owners such as the RIAA and the MPAA get complete control over the(ir) content on all the sites that use FileRights. They decide what torrents can stay and what torrents have to be filtered out. Pirate Bay admin Brokep thinks that the removal system is a step in the wrong direction and accuses Torrentspy of trying to make money by sleeping with both sides, “if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen, don’t blow it up so nobody else can cook” he adds. With FileRights, content owners can remove whatever they want and this raises the question how honest the content owners will be in the filtering process. As Brokep notes:  “Who checks that a copyright claim is correct? Who downloads all those files and checks them out to see if they are what they seem to be? What happens when the right holders start censoring other peoples content as well, maybe out of moral or maybe for a competing company? I’m afraid for how little people care about their own rights. Yes, the peoples rights, not the right holders rights.” Isohunt’s owner Gary Fung clearly disagreed with this and started throwing mud back at Brokep by saying: “You are either illiterate and don’t check the frontpage of sites you are pointing fingers at, or you are a communist. Or both. What makes you think you have rights to content you didn’t produce? People’s rights vs. copyright holders’ rights? Please. I will laugh at you when you are marked a terrorist and US armies hunt you down. Not that I like the whole anti-terrorist thing from the US but I digress.” Justin from Torrentspy told TorrentFreak that he doesn’t understand all the commotion about FileRights.  “I dont believe FileRights is incompatible with what is going on now,” he says. “TorrentSpy processes DMCA requests and always has, so do Isohunt, Mininova, and many others. The idea for FileRights actually came from a file hash filtering system that TorrentSpy has been using for over two years. Many companies, such as Microsoft, the RIAA, the IFPI, Universal, and the Business Software Alliance have been using the system to remove their content from TorrentSpy for years already. FileRights just makes the process less time consuming for content owners and BitTorrent site admins.” A noticeably upset Brokep, who was never a fan of either Torrentspy or Isohunt, turns it up a notch on his blog, and asks Torrentspy owner Justin:  “Or will you also in the next step of the system demand logs of the users that downloaded the content, so when a right holder puts up a torrent or hash he automatically gets the IPs that downloaded the same file? Maybe a good next step Justin” It is clear that the admins clearly differ in their vision of the DMCA takedown process. The Pirate Bay chooses not to respond to DMCA takedown requests at all, while Torrentspy and Isohunt’s FileRights system makes it easier for content owners to take down infringing .torrent files.  So what do you think? Is the filtering system that Isohunt and Torrentspy use a necessary evil? Source: Torrent Freak \n"
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