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IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios

by akshat on 10/17/13, 5:32 PM with 54 comments

• by aroch on 10/17/13, 5:59 PM

  IsoHunt has been largely irrelevant in the US for the last several years since they started filtering US IPs[1] and even before then was a pretty poor selection of torrents with many displaying completely incorrect swarm data.

  While I'm not personally bothered by this (from the point of view of someone who used IsoHunt) I do find this settlement quite annoying and Dodd to be completely abysmal as a person.

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  [1] http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-redirects-us-visitors-to-lit...

• by esw on 10/17/13, 6:09 PM

  What's stunning to me is the $110 million dollar judgment. Did the site really make that much money, or is this a decision designed to condemn the founder to a lifetime of poverty?

• by 300bps on 10/17/13, 6:34 PM

  Oh no! What is 2004 me going to do to find torrents now?

• by znowi on 10/17/13, 6:18 PM

  MPAA doesn't get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy.

  This is how you do it:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc

• by mcantelon on 10/17/13, 8:50 PM

  Gary Fung's not a US citizen AFAIK. What leverage do they have to force him to pay?

• by saejox on 10/17/13, 6:58 PM

  Why do they even try? It takes an hour to change the logo and host it somewhere else.

• by jedanbik on 10/17/13, 7:27 PM

  Wow, it's like the anti-acquisition.

• by NiekvdMaas on 10/17/13, 6:51 PM

  More info can be found in the MPAA press release: http://mpaa.org/resources/52c16680-37ab-4f0a-9756-b850fe37ca...

  The shut down date os Oct 23, 2013 (in a week from now).

• by Tichy on 10/17/13, 7:56 PM

  What is everybody using for piracy these days?