_BeanZ_ Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 so why go after isohunt and not google? because isohunt is the easier target. they don't have the funds for a top end legal defence team to drag this through the courts for years, and once a precedent is set by winning the case against google, the copyright holders' conglomerate can set their sights on bigger fish like google and force them to filter search results. No, it's because Google's indexing process is automated whilst the fact that Isohunt's results are sorted into categories and there is the ability to upload .torrents show there is human interaction in populating their database. As much as right holders need to realise that they're never going to completely wipe out piracy and adapt to business models that consumers want; site owners/admins need to realise they can't keep playing the "we're just a search engine" defence when their sites are structured in a way to facilitate copyright infringement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentralDogma Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Well isohunt cannot say they are merely a search engine, because they're not. They host and provide .torrent files, and provide search through their database. A pure torrent search engine would be something like torrentz.com. They used to. Their lite version no longer hosts the torrent files (at least in the US). It really is just a search engine now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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