Since 2006, IsoHunt is in the crosshairs of American justice. This search engine file. Torrent was prosecuted for "incitement to piracy" and has been condemned on this ground. Thus, the defense failed to convince with its quite simple guideline: "IsoHunt does not host any illegal files, it is only a service that allows you to find. Torrent legal.

Problem, the prosecution has proved without difficulty that IsoHunt could be used by hackers to ferret out illegal files. Justice, she found that IsoHunt was indeed a gateway to uncontrolled downloading illegal files and that the state, it encouraged piracy.

In reaching its verdict, the Court relied on recent similar cases, including that of Usenet, which had sealed the liability of service provider’s vis-à-vis the files running on their networks. To IsoHunt, the decisive factor was the presence on the site of sorting categories such as personal files "film" or "packages" that give direct access to securities protected by copyright.