British Columbia, Canada: After a Swedish court found The Pirate Bay founders guilty of committing copyright infringement by allowing users to download illegal copies of files, another torrent aggregator ISOHunt is on the limelight after a record group filed a lawsuit against the site.
According to earlier report, the Canadian Recording Recording Industry Association (CRIA) has filed a lawsuit against ISOHunt based on allegation that the site is infringing the copyright law.
Meanwhile, ISOHunt which does not provide all the files but only acts as search engine tool, said in its defense that Google and Yahoo also work in the same way.
“If the ISOHunt is considered to be committing copyright infringement by the court, then the two most popular search engine tools Yahoo and Google may also face the same lawsuit”, a torrent site official said in a statement.
This view is also seen as a relevant argument by some experts who said that whatever the court decision will be regarding the legality of ISOHunt, it will change the Internet sector in the country.
Meanwhile, Google officials were contacted but declined to provide comments saying they are not part of the lawsuit against ISOHunt.
Apart from charges filed by CRIA, the torrent site is also facing litigation with Motion Picture Association of America (MPPA) over the same copyright infringement lawsuit.
Few weeks ago, founders of the Pirate Bay Peter Sunde, 30, Fredrik Neij, 30, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 24, and Carl Lundstrom, 49, were sentenced to spend one year in prison and pay $3.2 million in damages to record industry including Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros., EMI, Sony Music Entertainment.