Hotfiles days appear to be numbered. The cyberlocker service today settled its lawsuit with major movie studios and will be required to shut down unless it can effectively implement digital fingerprinting technologies that prevent users from uploading copyrighted films to its servers. Worse yet for owner Anton Titov, his company must pay out a colossal $80 million in damages to major movie studios. The judgement marks the end of a high-profile legal battle between the Motion Picture Association of America and Hotfile — one which has swung momentum in the MPAAs favor as it continues its quest to keep pirated movies off of file-hosting services.
Comments are closed.
