Judge: Isohunt Must Remove Infringing Content

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Stan Schroeder
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Judge: Isohunt Must Remove Infringing Content
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According to the judge, Isohunt must cease “creating, maintaining or providing access to browsable website categories of dot-torrent or similar files using or based on infringement-related terms.”

The site's creator, Gary Fung, claims that complying would be the end of Isohunt. “Filtering against keywords. It amounts to nothing less than taking down our search engine,” he said. But Fung has an idea how to keep running the site in "lite" mode. It would strip Isohunt of categories, and pretty much everything else besides a big search box.

It's understandable that the entertainment industry is going after large torrent sites, as they point to thousands of links to copyright-infringing content. But so does Google. Is Isohunt's search box different than Google's search box? What exactly is Isohunt doing that's illegal?

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