ISOHunt Torrent Search Engine Hit With Injunction

From PC World: One of the most popular engines for searching for movies and music distributed via BitTorrent has been ordered to remove links to illegally shared content, marking a victory for the entertainment industry.

ISOHunt.com and three other Web sites are subject to an injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that bars the sites from serving up torrents leading to certain content under copyright. Torrents are small data files that enable the downloading of content using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs such as uTorrent.

The permanent injunction, issued on May 20 by U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson , marks the latest court action against ISOHunt. In December 2009, the court found that Gary Fung "induced infringement" in violation of U.S. copyright law.

Fung, who runs the company ISO Web Technologies, has said he would not take steps to prevent copyright infringement unless ordered by a court, according to court documents.

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