Ars Technica- isoHunt, a search engine for BitTorrent files founded more than a decade ago, has agreed today to shut down all its operations worldwide. The company, founded by Canadian Gary Fung, has also accepted a judgment that it must pay the movie studios that sued it $110 million.
A week after Swedish police shut down BitTorrent indexing site the Pirate Bay, torrent search site IsoHunt resurrected it in its entirety.
In a blog post, IsoHunt explains that, while it encourages Pirate Bay users to switch to IsoHunt (two sites are very similar in functionality), it has preserved the entire Pirate Bay site and put it up at the web address oldpiratebay.org.
The Pirate Bay will be back. I think I read somewhere that their servers are on a cloud and spread out throughout the world, or something similar to that.
This isohunt pirate bay doesn't have the "top 100s" torrent list. I dont like that.
When are these film studios going to understand that netflix type setups is the only way to get people paying for there movies ... you cant beat the internet. I dont care how many laws go up, there is always 1000 work arounds.
Simple buisness.. they are asking people to pay for things that are more easily obtainable by downloading them. Its like asking someone to pay you for making them do all the work.
IsoHunt it's dead. The new one with the .to domain is not a legit torrent site. It's actually a scam site full of adware ran by another people and now they will expand their shenanigans by using the Pirate Bay's name.
What I don't understand is how these people aren't afraid of the law and end up in prison.
I tried using isohunt without adblock and Omg the amount of ads that popup is insane! Thank god for opera browser and adblock! Now I can use the original pirate bay without much trouble!
TorrentFreak - As isoHunt’s legal problems with the movie industry continue in the United States, the music industry in Europe has just struck a blow against the decade-old torrent site. FIMI, the Federation of the Italian Music Industry, has obtained an order from the Court of Milan which orders ISPs to block subscriber access to the BitTorrent search engine. According to reports, the site is already inaccessible in Italy.
what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is madness. One of the good sites.
110 million for what? I mean really for what? How do they calculate these so called losses? F'n greedy people.