soulxtc
January 22nd, 2007, 10:07 PM
<h3>Looks like "the man" can't keep a good BitTorrent torrent tracker search-engine down, as the site gets new digs, a new server package, and a new lease on life north of the border....TAKE THAT MPAA!</h3>
<p>Last Tuesday I reported how isoHunt, the longtime search-engine staple of the <a href="http://www.zeropaid.com/programs/">BitTorrent</a> community, got shut down after it's ISP's lawyers called it quits and bowed down before the mighty MPAA legal team.</p>
<p>The subject of a lawsuit by the MPAA since last February, which included Torrentspy and <a href="http://www.zeropaid.com/news/7498/eDonkey+Gets+Shut+Down">eDonkey</a> among others, it was finally been done in by the lawyers of it's very own ISP. </p>
<p>After about a week or so of work the site has moved northward to the land of hockey, and well, hockey, to find a news safe haven away from the dreaded MPAA hit squads. </p>
<p>The <a href="http://isohunt.com/index.php">good news</a>, aside from their newfound freedom, is that thanks in part to the generous donations of users, some $6700 USD and counting, is that they were able to upgrade their server hardware and bandwidth for newfound "multi-homed connectivity" which will now guarantee "close to 100% uptime." </p>
<p>It will still be a little while before they get fully settled in however, and their site states that "Half the new servers are down due to driver/kernel problems" in the meantime. </p>
<p><img src="http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/soulxtc/isohunt.png" width="707" height="59" align="right" />Either way, it's nice to see them back on the BitTorrent scene. </p>
<p>As one guy in their <a href="http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79145&highlight=">forums</a> wrote, "Long Live isoHunt!"
<script>digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/isoHunt_back_up_and_ready_to_rock';</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"></script>
</p>
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<p>Last Tuesday I reported how isoHunt, the longtime search-engine staple of the <a href="http://www.zeropaid.com/programs/">BitTorrent</a> community, got shut down after it's ISP's lawyers called it quits and bowed down before the mighty MPAA legal team.</p>
<p>The subject of a lawsuit by the MPAA since last February, which included Torrentspy and <a href="http://www.zeropaid.com/news/7498/eDonkey+Gets+Shut+Down">eDonkey</a> among others, it was finally been done in by the lawyers of it's very own ISP. </p>
<p>After about a week or so of work the site has moved northward to the land of hockey, and well, hockey, to find a news safe haven away from the dreaded MPAA hit squads. </p>
<p>The <a href="http://isohunt.com/index.php">good news</a>, aside from their newfound freedom, is that thanks in part to the generous donations of users, some $6700 USD and counting, is that they were able to upgrade their server hardware and bandwidth for newfound "multi-homed connectivity" which will now guarantee "close to 100% uptime." </p>
<p>It will still be a little while before they get fully settled in however, and their site states that "Half the new servers are down due to driver/kernel problems" in the meantime. </p>
<p><img src="http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/soulxtc/isohunt.png" width="707" height="59" align="right" />Either way, it's nice to see them back on the BitTorrent scene. </p>
<p>As one guy in their <a href="http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79145&highlight=">forums</a> wrote, "Long Live isoHunt!"
<script>digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/isoHunt_back_up_and_ready_to_rock';</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"></script>
</p>
<hr size="2" width="100%" />
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<img src="http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/soulxtc/ZEROPAID2-1.jpg" alt="2" />