IsoHunt has been a staple of the filesharing community for a long time now. It’s longevity has, in fact, been exceptional considering that the site’s administrator, Gary Fung, has been engaged in an MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) lawsuit since February of 2006. The eventual legal complaint was preceded by several email exchanges between Fung and the MPAA. IsoHunt and the MPAA engaged in what could be considered an amicable debate on the merits of copyright laws in the digital age, however the movie industry’s patience wore out once it was clear Fung’s position was solidified. On February 23rd, 2006, the MPAA filed seven lawsuits against nine sites, including BinNewz.com, ed2k-it.com, and of course, IsoHunt.com IsoHunt.com unequivocally stated at the time of the suit’s filing that it would be fighting back.
Yesterday, things took a turn for the worse. This notice is now all that’s available at http://isohunt.com:
Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt related to our lawsuit brought by the MPAA, but we don’t have more information at this time until people responsible comes to work tomorrow. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our current ISP, or we get new hardware ready at our new ISP.
Sit back and enjoy the rest of the internet in the mean time, while it last. For your torrent searching needs, try Google for now by searching for “SEARCH TERMS ext:torrent”.
You can also come hang around our IRC channel (SSL on port +7000). We’ll update on this page and on IRC when we have more information.
If you wish to help us out financially, you can donate via Paypal from the button below. Due to prior dis-taste from certain individuals misusing legal funds for their own purposes however, this is not a legal defense fund. Your donations will be used for the operational costs of our servers and development of our websites. You have our sincere thanks.
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