IsoHunt, The Return
p2pnet.net News:- Canada’s IsoHunt is back, online, as promised.
It has the weight of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), owned and operated by Hollywood studios Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, on its back, and went down, briefly.
“Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice,” said Gary Fung at the time.
The move was, “No doubt related to our lawsuit brought by the MPAA, but we don’t have more information at this time until people responsible comes to work tomorrow. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our current ISP, or we get new hardware ready at our new ISP.”
Now once again, “Welcome to isoHunt,” it says.
“This site is home to the most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine, with cross-referenced trackers data you can’t find anywhere else. Along with integrated XDCC, Fserve and NFO search for files on IRC (currently offline). In short, this is your all-in-one P2P files search engine ……….”
Also See:
advance notice – IsoHunt offline, January 17, 2007
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January 23rd, 2007 at 8:06 pm
First The Pirate Bay and now ISOhunt….just another black eye for the **AA’s!
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Whack-a-mole plainly isn’t working except for the case where funding is critical because it’s done by one man operations on a shoestring. If the site has funding due to its size, they have the means to setup other sites in other nations less restrictive than the PSA (Police States of America).
You can be sure it is driving them up a wall to think “we got them where we want them” only to have the site in question move out to more forgiving countries. That’s what the internet shines at.
Look at the attempts at spam control to see it in action. My question now becomes how long till we see the same sort of support for indexing machines where the source isn’t readily findable? I would suspect that if these sort of moves become commonplace and if the cartels are successful in eliminating places to run, the next step will be to follow the path shown by the netbots. Will the cartels then try to sue those that have no idea that their machines are being used to store a small amount of the total database? Good luck on proving willful infringement on that scenario. It would give the whack-a-mole a new definition.
*Second attempt at validation
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:26 pm
___Second attempt at validation___
It happens elsewhere, too, but it may be something I can improve once I have other things settled.
Cheers!