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Originally Posted by kane
True. As the laws catch up with the technology I think we will see more and more cases against sites. Especially once there are a few big victories against sites so there is more established case law to work from.
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I have big hopes of such victories too. Especially promising in that regard is the hotfile case in the US which will help to put filehosters back into place where they belong. And thepiratebay case which will help to futher fight torrent sites that are hosted in Europe, where the majority of prominent torrent sites is hosted after they've been chased off US soil a few years ago.
It seems like many are waiting for thepiratebay outcome to wage futher action on torrents, because them resilient fucks so called "founders" promised to drag that case through the entire slow and clumsy European judicial system. That has a dowside of thepiratebay and lots of other torrent sites still working, but it'll also set all necessary precedents in place which will allow to take them all offline quickly using thepiratebay ruling. Not a lot of new major anti-piracy lawsuits are filed in Europe because of that currently, but I'm pretty sure European courts will explode will new cases once those scamming bloodsucking "founders" are behind bars finally.