Search or Piracy: isoHunt sez "we're exactly like Google"
arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com
And no, this isn't the article headline.
In neither case is it my job to do so, but I'll just quickly note:
(a) The media industry had little problem convincing a judge that 90+% of Limewire was infringing based on basic data collection and discovery.
(b) The fact that 90+% of Limewire was found, as a matter of fact, to be infringing allowed the judge to hold them liable for copyright infringement as a matter of law.
My only point here is that the fact that Google has 90% of the same files as isoHunt is probably irrelevant; the amount of infringing use of Google is probably infinitessimal compared to the lawful use of Google, and, to head off the inevitable argument about how much Google is used to infringe, it's certainly a far safer fraction than that of isoHunt, which basically exists almost entirely to facilitate copyright infringement.
A search engine that is affiliate with Bit Torrent conjures up "ah i can download the latest movie, music,etc for free." Ask yourself how many times you used piratebay or isohunt to download the latest linux distro or ask the crowd the same thing. Unless these sites go back in time and start their grass roots marketing with download the latest linux and public domain materials they always will be thought of the way to get the latest copyrighted material for free and stick to the man. Though if they went that route you'd never would have heard of them.