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IsoHunt Shut Down?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the copyright-wack-a-mole dept.

psic writes "One of the most popular torrent search sites, IsoHunt, was taken down on tuesday. The owners of the site say that the move came from their ISP without prior notice, though it is probably linked with the MPAA's lawsuit against various torrent search sites earlier this year. They plan on moving ISPs from the US to Canada, and say that moving the servers so someplace like Sweden or Sealand is not an option, as they put it: "BitTorrent was created for legitimate distribution of large media files, and we stand by that philosophy as a search engine and aggregator."" This is a story we've heard before with other sites, only serving to further demonstrate that playing wack a mole with torrent aggregators isn't the solution to anything.

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  1. Link is down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    anyone got a mirror?

  2. are they crazy? by mastershake_phd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who wouldnt want to be the first torrent site on Sealand?

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    1. Re:are they crazy? by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 4, Funny

      Who wouldnt want to be the first torrent site on Sealand? Shhh, don't tell them! Otherwise if I want first torrent site I'll have to wait until someone decides to create New Sealand... How many sheep can you fit on an oil platform?
  3. Re:Isohunt by Thansal · · Score: 3, Funny

    shutting
    shutting down....

    yah, I should use preview more often.

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  4. Re:Only reason this is personally a bummer... by pipatron · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunately it doesn't work for the leechers. Otherwise I think it's great.

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  5. Re:Canada by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, if you make a move on your sister, isn't that incest? Ewwww

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  6. Re:good idea, bad idea by xiong.chiamiov · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite Adobe product? That would be, uh, just a minute ...

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  7. I warned you... by LordEd · · Score: 1, Funny

    I warned you not to list torrent sites. See what happens?
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=214766&cid=174 44232

  8. Re:the obligatory... by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 5, Funny

    from now on can we just abbreviate?

    TMYTYGTTMSSWSTYF

    saves screen space

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  9. Re:I don't get it. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny
    If they stayed in Ameeeeerica, they'd get instafucked by the **AA. I imagine they're moving to Canaaada to get around that. Or at least delay it. Or for poutines.


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  10. Seizure by Das+Auge · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried to read that out loud at work. Now I'm stuck trying to explain to my coworkers that I am, in fact, not having a seizure.

    1. Re:Seizure by Crunchie+Frog · · Score: 2, Funny

      stroke? Not now dear, I'm at work
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  11. Re:a Rose by any other name is still full of crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "If I have seen farther than any man, it was because there were no damn giants standing in the way"