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isoHunt: 'Copyright Infringers Aren't Wrong, the Law Is'

By soulxtc

Gary Fung, founder of the BitTorrent tracker site, shares his thoughts on copyright law and its need for reform in an age where the Internet allows society to freely share ideas and thoughts with one another It was about two months ago that Gary Fong, founder of the popular isoHunt BitTorrent tracker site, decided to go on the offensive by suing the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA) so that courts could clarify the site's legality once and for all. "We intend to take this all the way up to the Canadian Supreme Court unless CRIA settles with us out of court in any reasonable way," Fung noted. In his petition Fung pointed out that Google works just as isoHunt does, yet it indexes ACTUAL CONTENT! With isoHunt users can only search through .torrent (tracker) files whereas with Google you can search through music, movies, images, and more. In many cases you can even download many of them with a simple right-click of the mouse.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).