isoHunt decided to take the question of whether linking to copyright material on the World Wide Web is breaking copyright law. While it is good to see them going on the offense like this, I hope isoHunt has the wherewithal to pursue it to the end. They were already fighting the MPAA in a US court. Starting another case against the CRIA in a British Columbia court, sounds like it will be financially draining. Both the CRIA and MPAA have the backing of several multi-billion dollar companies, and their lawyer's are so very good a dragging out the proceedings. On the other hand, losing means isoHunt goes out of business anyway, so they really have no choice.
Unlike The Pirate Bay, isoHunt does not operate a tracker and only links to other tracker sites. In effect isoHunt is highly a specialized search engine. Very similar results can be found on Google with a filetype:torrent search filter. To a technical person such as myself, it seems improbable that isoHunt could lose, but the courts are more unpredictable places than I am accustomed to. The World Wide Web doesn't exist without linking. Just try to imagine that!
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