While stressing that the website is guilty of inducing copyright infringement, a US Federal court issued a ruling against the giant torrent indexer isoHunt. com today. While giving the case a summary judgement and rejecting a full trial, the court stressed that it was very similar to the 1990s case of Napster and Grokster.

The case reared its head in 2006 when Columbia, Disney, Tristar, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros lodged a complaint against the website and its owner Gary Fung, and now it is finally over and isoHunt seems to be going the Mininova way, which removed all its illegal listings in November, for the US at least. To Canada, however, the site will continue to run a full stream.

According to the ruling sounded, Fung operated the site with "purposeful, culpable expression and conduct, aimed at promoting infringing uses of the websites".

To make their case stronger, the defendants pointed out various cases where users were encouraged to indulge in piracy, mainly by adding categories such as "top 20 movies" or "Box Office Movies", letting isoHunt users download the top grossing moves of all time.