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. __________…
What are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.
IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
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Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#42IsoHunt 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. __________…
What are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.
If you're trying to find anime, I recommend nyaa.se. It's where most fansubbing groups upload torrent files to.
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.
Kickasstorrents is the best atm in my opinion. TPB is good but their legal issues make them unreliable technically and I prefer non-magnet links for use with rtorrent.
rtorrent supports magnet links just fine if you're using a recent version (As in one from the past year or two).
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#44What'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?
The MPAA estimates [1] that the company has $2-4 million in assets, but seems to be asking for the higher number just to send some kind of a message. If I'm reading correctly, it would be isoHunt, not the founder, responsible for the judgment, so they would just declare bankruptcy, and the MPAA would get whatever assets are left in liquidation. The founder wouldn't be responsible for paying the remainder. [1] http://…
It appears they were suing the founder, Daniel Fung, personally and in addition to suing the company. The lower-court case is Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. v. Fung, 06-cv-05578, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles). The appeals court case is Columbia Picture Industries v. Fung, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 10-55946 (San Francisco).
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/10-...
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#45IsoHunt 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. __________…
What are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.
http://thepiratebay.sx/ ?
I admit their search function is terrible, but it has nearly everything. They've had great uptime for a while now too.
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#46IsoHunt 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. __________…
What are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.
There is btdigg.org, which builds its database by crawling the bittorrent distributed hash table.
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#47MPAA 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
Then perhaps they're not really trying to defeat piracy? If they're trying to justify the position of middle-men (say, recording studios in music), then the lawsuits show them adding value. Even when distribution is no longer difficult, thanks to the internet.
Recording studios are not middlemen. That's where records get made. You can only go so far in your bedroom before you need a room with a million dollars of equipment in it.
That's the problem with these modern ideas about people producing content off their own back, it's not actually possible. You can't make star trek on a macbook pro with final cut, and you can't make a highly produced album with 10 musicians in your bedroom.
Re: IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios
#48Oh no! What is 2004 me going to do to find torrents now?
2004 is not stoked with this decision, that's for sure.