IsoHunt Shut Down?

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.

Comments

Re:Who's fault is it?

[kinglink]

You are trying to fight rational with realism and doing it on slashdot of all places. Realize that the comment is a section for teenagers to blow off steam and try to sound like they can make a coherent argument even if it is mind boggling incorrect.

You can argue isohunt is similar to a search engine in it doesn't host files, but it's prime purpose is providing a centralized torrent hub. On the other hand there's no checks to make sure that unlawful files don't get uploaded or people in countries that shouldn't have access to the files don't have access, or a million other hard to implement if not impractical request are implemented.

However before we go down a path of debating legality versus morality and so on the point I'm making is let the kid have his rant, just because it has no practical application or no basis to stand on doesn't make it any less valid on slashdot apparently.

Re:Who's fault is it?

[themusicgod1]

Knowingly profiting from a stolen good, even without ever handling that good, is illegal.

Good thing they aren't involved with theft, but rather copyright enfringement