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Yesterday one of our old articles on isoHunt was promoted to Reddit’s frontpage. This prompted isoHunt founder Gary Fung to do an AMA(A) If you have any questions to ask, this is the time. isoHunt is currently involved against in two major lawsuits. One in the US where he takes on the MPAA, and another [...]

Following a US court decision BitTorrent search engine isoHunt was ordered to implement a site-wide keyword filter provided by the MPAA. According to isoHunt’s owner the ruling would result in mass censorship of legitimate content, and recent evidence shows that this is indeed the case. The MPAA’s mandatory filter is accidentally censoring thousands of public domain songs and even an independent film which was uploaded by the filmmaker himself.

In its case against 26 major record labels at British Columbia Supreme Court in Canada, BitTorrent index isoHunt has submitted a response to the copyright infringement allegations. The BitTorrent site argues that not only do they pose no threat to the music industry, it’s the copyright industry itself that’s threatening the freedom of expression of millions of people on the Internet.

A few prominent BitTorrent search engines are celebrating their 8th anniversary this year. On July 24 Torrentz silently celebrated its birthday, and this week it’s isoHunt’s turn. They even have a special anniversary t-shirt designed for the hardcore fans. Although the site itself was founded in January of 2003, torrent were first added on August [...]

BitTorrent search engine isoHunt implemented a nifty feature a few days ago. You can now search for torrents without having to touch a keyboard. Just talk into your microphone and isoHunt’s cutting edge technology does the rest. “We beat google to adding speech input on their search box,” isoHunt founder Gary Fung told TorrentFreak. The [...]

BitTorrent search engine isoHunt is fighting the injunction and summary judgment issued by the District Court of California last summer in their case against the MPAA. Yesterday, both parties clashed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, with isoHunt claiming there is no evidence they can be held liable for copyright infringements that may have been committed by its users.

Last year the BitTorrent search engine isoHunt filed an appeal in their case with the MPAA. With the appeal isoHunt hopes to overturn a District Court ruling that obligates the site to operate an MPAA-approved censorship filter. The case is still ongoing and the Appeal Court has now granted Google the opportunity to chime in as well, leading to critical comments from both the MPAA and isoHunt.