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!Last Tuesday I reported how isoHunt, the longtime search-engine staple of the BitTorrent community, got shut down after it's ISP's lawyers called it quits and bowed down before the mighty MPAA legal team. The subject of a lawsuit by the MPAA since last February, which included Torrentspy and eDonkey among others, it was finally been done in by the lawyers of it's very own ISP. 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. The good news, 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." 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.
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Either way, it's nice to see them back on the BitTorrent scene. 
