IsoHunt Shut Down?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @04:02AM 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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Link is down by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-17 04:06 · Score: 5, Funny

anyone got a mirror?
are they crazy? by mastershake_phd · 2007-01-17 04:08 · 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 · 2007-01-17 04:55 · 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?
Re:good idea, bad idea by xiong.chiamiov · 2007-01-17 04:38 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Re:the obligatory... by Mateo_LeFou · 2007-01-17 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny

from now on can we just abbreviate?

TMYTYGTTMSSWSTYF

saves screen space

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