BitTorrent Site isoHunt Shutting Down Due to Settlement

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Another one bites the dust. isoHunt, the BitTorrent search engine, will be shutting down by October 23rd as part of a settlement with the MPAA. The settlement is the result of a 2006 lawsuit filed over pirated movie and TV content.

isoHunt is considered the fourth largest BioTorrent site on the Internet with 44.2 million peers and 13.7 million active torrents. Alexa.com ranks isoHunt as the 426th most visited site on the Internet worldwide.
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if piracy was such an issue, movie and music sales must be through the roof by now with all those file sharing and torrent sites going offline.
 
how long before someone launches an orbital piracy platform...lol
 
jojo69 said:
how long before someone launches an orbital piracy platform...lol
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I know I've heard this somewhere before...in any case I bet Kim Dotcom would be the first to try it.
I'm torn up about Isohunt. Easily one of the best, never had trouble with popups & porn etc. R.I.P.
 
Damn...ISOHunt was great for getting factory restore disks for laptops. I'll have to hunt for another place to get them.
 
All this amounts to is the MPAA attempting to justify the oxygen they steal from actual productive citizens
 
I fell left out... I did hear about IsoHunt but never needed it, and now it's gone. Apparently it had its specialties.

I do miss Demonoid.
 
temujin987 said:
if piracy was such an issue, movie and music sales must be through the roof by now with all those file sharing and torrent sites going offline.
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Nah they will blame it on black market corner stalls, and physical trade of pirated merchandise, like the good old days.
 
AceGoober said:
Damn...ISOHunt was great for getting factory restore disks for laptops. I'll have to hunt for another place to get them.
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Yea, that's true. Not sure of the legality of it, but OEM disks were easy to obtain that way. They were the restore disks that many PC's come with (and are worthless without the product key, anyway - either physical or in the BIOS).

These torrent sites are valuable for many things, and yes they are huge for piracy of things, but there are some legit purposes. Although, with these cases winning, aren't there books that give illegal advice? Shouldn't libraries be targets, as well?

ISOHunt was good... Sad to see them go.
 
The only shutdown that I know of that had any meaningful effect was the nzbmatrix fiasco. Shutting down a torrent site doesn't really mean anything.
 
next-Jin said:
The only shutdown that I know of that had any meaningful effect was the nzbmatrix fiasco. Shutting down a torrent site doesn't really mean anything.
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Like trashing the card catalog at the library...
 
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