Canada: Bittorrent tracker ISOHunt has recently asked the legal court to provide a ruling that would tell if the website has violated the copyright law to end the legal charges filed by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) which accused the site of committing infringement offenses.
During a court proceeding, ISOHunt’s legal representative Arthur Grant said Google, which is the most popular search engine tool in the Internet, also tracks the same disputed files available in ISOHunt.
Grant said the bittorrent tracker also works in the same manner as Google, adding that the only difference is the latter “searches every file under the sun.”
When asked for comments, ISOHunt administrator Gary Fung said they have tried to come up with the common ground with CRIA but the group still threatens them with legal charges involving the alleged copyright infringement activity committed by the bittorrent tracker.
Meanwhile, CRIA challenged ISOHunt’s petition and added the bittorrent site should have resorted to a counter-lawsuit. The presiding judge consented to the recording industry’s proposal and said full litigation will take place.
“ISOHunt and its sister companies Torrentbox and Podtropolis are not committing copyright infringement activities”, Fung said.
In February 2006, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPPA) had also filed a copyright infringement case against sites including ISOHunt, TorrentSpy, ed2k-it, TorrentBox, and other bittorrent trackers.
ISOHunt tracks over 44.77 million BitTorrent files including movie, music, games, TV programs, and software on the Internet, adding it has more than 20.88 million regular active users.
According to reports, the bittorrent tracker passed the 1 petabyte marks for torrents indexed worldwide.