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.
Either way, it’s nice to see them back on the BitTorrent scene.
As one guy in their forums wrote, “Long Live isoHunt!”
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sweet!
Hopefully after TPB and now this the MPAA/RIAA will finally get the message that they do not own the whole planet! Mabye they will now start to realize how FUITLE their efforts are against shutting down sites like ISOHunt. If enough sites are shut down and then re-appear in another country mabye the authorities will get the message about BT. As fast as you shut down sites they can start popping up again in different places.
Ok I’m going to be a nerd and quote Star Wars here. “The more you tighten you’re grip the more planets will slip though your fingers.”