Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court

Courtesy Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 07:00

The Swedish hosting provider Portlane is being sued by several Hollywood movie studios for hosting the standalone BitTorrent tracker, OpenBitTorrent.

The movie studios are claiming that OpenBitTorrent is a re-branded copy of The Pirate Bay tracker that shut down yesterday.


 

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