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Five years ago, Gary Fung set up a small website in his B.C. home to let visitors search for files available through a then-emerging peer-to-peer file-sharing system called BitTorrent. What started as a hobby project to help Fung improve his programming skills has grown into one of the largest file-sharing websites on the Internet - with five paid staff members and growing advertising revenues - and has made Fung the target of a major lawsuit launched by the Hollywood film industry.
"At first, it was a side-project to learn some of the language and databases - mostly for technical reasons," says the 25-year-old Richmond man, who started isohunt.com while studying computer engineering at the University of British Columbia.
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"At first, it was a side-project to learn some of the language and databases - mostly for technical reasons," says the 25-year-old Richmond man, who started isohunt.com while studying computer engineering at the University of British Columbia.
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