isoHunt is once again become a target of the copyrights holders. with no less then 26 major record with one purpose that is to shut down the the popular Canadian file-sharing website. With the claimed compensation up to 4million!!
After the painful fight again the american movie industry, isoHunt may face it's end. IsoHunt founder Gary Fung and it's company was sued by the the record label that include the Sony's "Big Four", EMI, WArner and Universal.
"The isoHunt Websites have been designed and are operated by the defendants with the sole purpose of profiting from rampant copyright infringement which defendants actively encourage, promote, authorize, induce, aid, abet, materially contribute to and commercially profit from," the court filing reads.
"The defendant and users of the isoHunt websites act together, in and part of a file-sharing community, to reproduce and distribute plaintiffs' sound recordings and other copyright content," the record labels add.
The court ordered a censorship upon the website search engine based on the list of keywords provided by the MPAA or the ceasing or the ceasing of any operation in the U.S. The censorship has been applied to all U.S.
reference:http://www.p2pon.com/2011/02/16/isohunt-sued-by-record-labels-massively/ last visited 3rd November 2011 04.33PM.
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