On the Closing of EasyTree & Torrent Sites

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Posted in music on April 27, 2005

On April 6th, I posted a link to three Joanna Newsom torrents hosted on easytree.org. A few hours later, the links were dead. Largehearted boy reported his shock at the missing site. A message on easytree said they shut down for legal reasons.

The Village Voice reports...

"The word that went around the EZT community was that a European division of Universal Music had complained to Easytree's Internet service provider that the site was hosting an illicit Nirvana video (which it wasn't) and threatened to sue. Whereupon the ISP got cold feet; that's why they call it a chilling effect.

File traders bounced right back. Within days, they'd migrated to the very similar dimeadozen.org,..."

EZT shuts down, courts lag behind, WMG gets desperate

posted at 10:15 AM on April 27, 2005 in music | Comments (1)