Despite being ensnared in legal proceedings with the MPAA, isoHunt is continuing to grow. Adding fuel to the ’significant non-infringing use’ argument is their latest partnership, with the Creative Commons music distribution site Jamendo.

When BitTorrent sites have come under attack by media groups and their battalions of lawyers, it’s usual for them to pull up the drawbridge and keep the site going as is, and try to get the case over with as soon as possible.

The other option is to close down and hunt for a settlement, but isoHunt, like its other big-site brethren, hasn’t. Despite a legal campaign that’s now over two years old, it continues to grow and add features and functionality.

One of these new developments has been the addition of increasing numbers of Creative Commons (CC) licensed material. Creative Commons media is licensed by the creator, to be shared - usually with some restrictions - and is the same license used by TorrentFreak.

It’s not a niche license, instead it is becoming increasingly popular, with Nine Inch Nails having released their Ghosts album under a CC license earlier this year.

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Call me a party pooper, but I couldn’t care less about Guinness Book records. I also don’t like overloaded servers that make me wait for forever, so here we go:

Firefox 3.0, English (US). Windows (7.1MB) (via The Pirate Bay)
Firefox 3.0, English (US). OS X (17.2 MB) (via The Pirate Bay)

I didn’t upload the torrents, but I double-checked the signature of the Windows copy and did a SHA1 checksum comparison for the dmg file - these are legitimate 3.0 finals, the same files that would be available at Mozilla.com if the server wasn’t down.