isoHunt s SCOTUS Petition for Writ of Certiorari.pdf

Published by Gary Fung
Case: Columbia Pictures Industries v. Fung

Our case with the MPAA is currently at a critical stage for the US Supreme Court, on the issue of causation. To what extent should a Web search engine be held to “cause” infringement that occur off the Web, on BitTorrent swarms and clients, within a large ecosystem with many websites and many search engines, including generic search engines such as Google and Yahoo? I’m not playing lip service here, we've done a statistical study that 95% of torrent files searchable on isoHunt are identically searchable on Google or Yahoo. This is an issue with huge implications for both Internet technology businesses, search engines and UGC sites, and users/consumers alike.