ISO Hunt is a P2P or Peer to Peer file sharing service that dodges loop holes in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and focuses on decentralization. The service is a evolution from many services before it but its popular predecessor was Napster, another online file sharing service that is centralized.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), is a adds measure to the current copyright laws that are in place to prevent piracy but in the digital field. However DMCA has laws that protect online service providers from having potential violation cases against them thus the possibility of providers harboring pirate's is very high. Napster is a service that can hide under the loopholes of service providers by providing files that are uploaded by users on one server, thus the term centralized. DMCA caught onto Napster because it held all the illegal material on its drives.
isoHunt is a sharing system that isnt centralized with all of its data on one server but on the users computers. Using a client to connect and find files among millions of users, one user can find a files and have a fast download due to other peers assisting with their own uploads. Thus it is hard to pinpoint an owner since there is no central server.
Today this is one of the newer forms of file sharing that makes the task more effortless and at the same time harder to have litigation to have justice for the creators of those files. This is a continuing battle to have copyright laws to be applied to these new sharing trends to stop cybercrime.
Very interesting topic!! I would have nerver done it, so I'm glad you did!!
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