The Canadian recording industry has been engaged in a legal battle with BitTorrent tracker QuebecTorrent since last year, demanding that the business shut down due to copyright violations on the site. The site originally declined to shut down but has now agreed to comply with a permanent injunction to do so which was issued by the Superior Court of Quebec. The entertainment industry in the country has said that this case sets precedent for other BitTorrent trackers but QuebecTorrent’s owner argues that this does not set precedent at all and that, in fact, the choice to comply with the injunction was made in part out of the desire to not set precedent in this area.

In this case, QuebecTorrent was facing an uphill battle against 30 large organizations with a lot of resources behind them. The tracker is also dealing with outdated copyright laws that remain on the books in Canada. QuebecTorrent knew that there was very little chance of winning this case and therefore opted to withdraw from the battle. This choice could mean that other BitTorrent trackers facing similar legal battles in the future may be able to obtain more success since no anti-torrent legal precedent has been set.