- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- December 5th, 2013
Hotfile Shuts Down, Makes Millions of User Files Vanish
The downside of shutting down a site with mixed content is that legal files get lost
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- December 4th, 2013
Hotfile Settles MPAA Suit, Pays $80M / €58.9M
The site could have been asked to pay up to half a billion dollars
- Web resources
- By Gabriela Vatu
- December 3rd, 2013
Anti-Piracy Case Could Have Hotfile Paying Half a Billion Dollars to the MPAA
The case is going in front of a jury next week and the stakes are high
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- August 29th, 2013
Hotfile Loses Legal Battle Against the MPAA
The MPAA is boasting about its legal win against the cyberlocker Hotfile
- Google News
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 23rd, 2012
Google Takes on the MPAA in Hotfile Copyright Case
Google is standing by the amicus brief it filed, supporting DMCA safe harbors
- Google News
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 20th, 2012
Google Swoops in to Defend Hotfile in Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
Arguing with the court that Hotfile warrants safe harbor protection
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Eduard Kovacs
- November 11th, 2011
Warner Bros. Admits Removing File-Share Content Without Owning Copyright
When they searched for 'The Box' a lot of unrelated titles were taken down by mistake