Wendy Davis at Mediapost reports this morning that IsoHunt, the popular torrent search engine, has been cited for copyright infringement and intentionally encouraging piracy.
In a similar case last year, torrent search engine TorrentSpy was ordered to pay $110 million in damages to the MPAA.
It appears to this Hobo that the “search engine defense” is no longer going to hold up when all you index is copyrighted material. The judge decided that the “safe harbor” statutes, in this case, did not apply, as they require, “passive good faith conduct aimed at operating a legitimate internet business,” which he did not see.
ISOHunt Guilty of Copyright Violations
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