From my favorite torrent website:
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July 4, 2010 - US users, welcome to the lighter and lightning-fast isoHunt! Although we bring this new search engine to you with a burden from the lawsuit brought by the MPAA, we hope you understand the reason why we are making this change. We are addressing concerns Judge Wilson has expressed over inducing copyright infringement in the United States. Though inducement is never our intention (and we have evidence to support it), with isoHunt Lite we want to affirm publicly that isoHunt's essential function is merely to provide a search engine and a public utility with all the net neutrality it affords and should be afforded.
Why would you still use isoHunt, you ask now that it's just like Google and Yahoo, and you can search for torrents with those? While we won't dispute that claim, there's a fundamental difference: On isoHunt Lite you get ranking by constantly updated seeds/leechers and ratings, statistics specific for BitTorrent, in addition to search relevancy and age. A general search engine also do not group as one multiple, identical torrents spread on different websites on the Web. Your continued use of isoHunt will also support our upcoming appeal against the MPAA, and we thank you in advance.
We protest we are required by US injunction to keyword filter for US users as we view it as censorship and a violation of your freedom of speech, and we are appealing this. The DMCA mandates with good reason that copyright notice and takedowns requested by copyright holders be done under penalty of perjury with accurate identifcation, with standard practice of links or URLs, not broad mucking with the dictionary. If you want to join us in protest, share this by Tweet, Facebook, etc. and write to Congress. Donation to organizations like the EFF will also help.
UPDATE: Regular isoHunt interface now available again to US users.
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I don't know when the regular interface was available again to the US, since I didn't have this problem to begin with, but I guess that it is clear what the court decided.
From the Copyright Policy page:
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If you represent a copyright holder and email our copyright@ addresses without fully reading and understanding this policy, you accept that any further email from you may be refused by our servers. You additionally accept and understand that email from you may or may not be published publicly by us or any 3rd party of our choice (such as the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse). This means please don't send 'privacy notice' signatures with your copyright emails.
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On the subject of jurisdiction, please refrain from sending allegedly infringing links to content which was NOT produced in your country, unless representatives of either the Canadian or US rights-holders have contacted us prior to your notice being sent. They'll need to email us a note giving you explicit permission to submit takedowns on their behalf, as well as provide their name, phone number and job title. This requirement is so that if for some reason you fail to understand repeated warnings about accuracy -- such as sending us links which neither you nor the rights-holder could possibly be construed as owning, we have someone to speak to about your lack of accuracy (under penalty of perjury).
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Note that as of Jan. 22, 2007, we have moved servers to Canada and are no longer subject to US DMCA laws. We are keeping this copyright policy and procedure modeled after the DMCA, as it worked for us and for copyright owners in the past, and we find this procedure and takedown process to be mostly fair.
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