P2P Site Isohunt Sues Canadian Record Industry Association

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 8, 2008 - 11:38am.

Los Angeles - Canada-based BitTorrent tracker site Isohunt has filed suit against the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA), asking a judge to declare that its service does not infringe copyrights, TorrentFreak reports.

Isohunt, which also faces a federal copyright lawsuit in the U.S. filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), received a cease-and-desist notice from the CRIA in May.

For its part, the site maintains that it removes links to copyrighted content when asked by the copyright holder.

"We have since tried to come to an understanding, but just as with the MPAA in the US, they ignored our offers of cooperation by the take down of .torrent links to their content files, so long as they provide sufficient identification," Isohunt founder Gary Fung told TorrentFreak.

Isohunt's lawsuit is intended to pre-empt copyright infringement litigation threatened by the CRIA.

"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 added.

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/3ocdl (TorrentFreak)

http://torrentfreak.com/images/petition-to-the-court.pdf (PDF)

http://www.cria.ca

http://isohunt.com