In a surprising move, considering its past actions, or rather inactions, Google has gotten involved with a lawsuit concerning BitTorrent search engines. isoHunt has been entangled in a lawsuit brought against it by the movie industry for half a decade now. But Google has only now offered its official opinion on the m... |
23 February 2011
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A couple of big rulings on file-sharing in the US came within hours of each other and, despite the similarities of the two cases, but in keeping with recent history, they’re completely at odds. On the one hand, notorious BitTorrent search engine IsoHunt is basically forced to shut down in the US, on the oth... |
22 May 2010
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A California court has issued an order for IsoHunt's administrators to remove all of the infringing torrent files from their website. To get around the judge's decision, Gary Fung, IsoHunt's founder, is trying to have the court approve a lighter version of the torrent search engine as an alternative to... |
1 April 2010
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isoHunt, one of the biggest BitTorrent search engines around, was faced yesterday, September 7th, 2009, with huge problems that took it offline for half a day. The administrators were quick to react, repairing the problem and keeping users up-to-date. The problem appeared because of a caching anomaly in the forum, w... |
8 September 2009
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TorrentFreak reports that Ukrainian-based BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is facing some huge hardware problems that will certainly result in some downtime for its users. Demonoid admins have admitted to having serious problems with a lot of components ranging from system memory, hard-drives and power circuits.It seems t... |
4 September 2009
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Fear is what drives innovation, and after the latest frights in Gary Fung's day-to-day illegal existence, Hexagon.cc is what came out. Having been sued by many music and film companies, and later pursued by the police, the founder and creator of the IsoHunt torrent tracker has revealed his new project, Hexagon.c... |
3 September 2009
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Most of the time when you hear about a lawsuit between a bittorrent site and a copyright holder the latter is suing the site on various claims of infringement and illegal activities. IsoHunt, based in Canada, though, decided to take the first step and sue the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) to determin... |
3 August 2009
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The fight against BitTorrent websites which are accused of copyright infringement continues with a new duel, this time between IsoHunt and MPAA(Motion Picture Association of America). IsoHunt was quite reticent in the last few months, probably due to the fact that all people concentrated on The Pirate Bay and on its ... |
5 May 2008
06:19 GMT |
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We all know the authorities struggle to shut down the BitTorrent websites and reduce the amount of pirated content they suspect these services distribute every day. But closing them is not always a disaster for the BitTorrent services. The best example is represented by The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent technology that ma... |
27 December 2007
10:30 GMT |
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The fight against the torrent trackers distributing or boosting illegal material on the Internet is now making new victims. After two top players, TorrentSpy and Demonoid, were shut down, IsoHunt also bites the dust but only partially. The founder of the technology announced that IsoHunt becomes unavailable for the U... |
27 September 2007
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