In the case between the MPAA and Hotfile, the judge in Florida in the interim ruled that the bestandsdeelservice does not infringe on copyrights. This is an important part of the indictment against Hotfile rejected.
Hotfile makes itself according to the indictment of the MPAA guilty of large-scale copyright infringement by servers and bandwidth available to downloaders. A reward system in the form of credits would be uploaded in addition to encourage illegal material on the servers of Hotfile, while the bestandsdeelservice, according to the MPAA also is aware that there is illegal material on his servers.
A federal judge in the state of Florida has this indictment of the lawyers of the MPAA, however, rejected, reports TorrentFreak. From the evidence produced would not prove that Hotfile is purposely guilty of the violation of copyrights.
Although the case of the MPAA still runs over some of the additional charges against Hotfile, is the main complaint, about the intentional violation of copyright, off the table. The case law would, moreover, prove that Hotfile also of the other charges can be acquitted, because the site is under the dmca law. According to this legislation, is a website that after a notification from a copyright holder of the relevant material be deleted immediately, not be liable.