MPAA takes aim at another BitTorrent search site
Found on The Inquirer on Tuesday, 06 June 2006
The MPAA continues to reach out and send armies of lawyers to the owners of any website making use of BitTorrent and or other file-sharing systems.
The latest victim is Canadian-owned search engine website isohunt.com, which has been sued and labelled a pirate by the association.
As we noted in March, here, IsoHunt attempted to create a coalition in preparation to fight the evil empire on the grounds that the website was a mere search engine, and not a willful pirate site, and thus is doing nothing illegal.
Within the IsoHunt forums Gary Fung, the 23 year-old operator of IsoHunt, said, "the MPAA's allegation that our service is for the sole purpose of helping copyright infringement of their movies is plainly wrong."
Are they trying to bring down another site and brag about it? Like when they cheered about the Piratebay going offline? Well, it came back 3 days later, it's getting bigger and better than before, got lots of news coverage and more support from Internet users; plus, the (illegal) raid itself caused a great stir.