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isoHunt was founded in January 2003 by Gary Fung, a Canadian national. Its name is derived from the term ISO image, used to describe a 1:1 soft copy of a disk (typically a CD or DVD). On February 23, 2006, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)issued a press release stating they were suing isoHunt for copyright infringement. On September ...
Correspondence with the MPAA
Selected items of email correspondence between Gary Fung and the MPAAhave been posted on isoHunt.com.
Lawsuit
In February 2006, it was announced that the MPAA had launched legal proceedings against isoHunt, TorrentBox, TorrentSpy, ed2k-it, and several other BitTorrent indexing or tracker sites, alleging that these sites facilitate copyright infringement. On February 28, 2006, a lawsuit was filed against Gary Fung in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Fung stands to oppose the MPAA on legal grounds.On August 18, 2006, Judge Stanton granted a motion for case transfe...
DMCA takedown notices
IsoHunt has a history of complying with DMCA takedown notices, and has worked with various copyright owners in the past, such as the RIAA and Microsoft. The site uses an ex-gratia takedown process modelled on the DMCA, even though the servers were relocated to Canadain January 2007 where the DMCA does not apply.
In the beginning of 2007, isoHunt restructured its server setup and bought mostly new hardware for the cluster that operates the site. The cluster had a total of 34 AMD Opteron cores, 70 GB in RAM and 30 hard drives ranging from SATAs to 15,000 rpm SCSIs. The network started with a D-Link switch but due to multiple failures, isoHunt moved to a Forc...
On October 30, 2013, two weeks following the shutdown of the original website, a group of people claiming to be dedicated to isoHunt's continuance brought a near-identical clone of the original website online, accessible via isohunt.to.Former staff member of original isoHunt has made it clear that the team behind isohunt.com has not been involved i...
OldPirateBay.org
On December 13, 2014, just 4 days after a raid by Swedish police took ThePirateBay.se offline, the isoHunt.to team launched a new website, OldPirateBay.org, mirroring the contents of a recent snapshot of The Pirate Bay. It is branded in isoHunt's style, featuring both a ghostly blue theme and the isoHunt logo.The team stated that they would gladly take their copy of the site down if and when the original Pirate Bay came back online, which occurred on January 31, 2015.
The Open Bay
On December 19, 2014, isoHunt.to released a tool called The Open Bay at Openbay.isohunt.to, providing original source code and additional tools in order to allow users to deploy their own version of The Pirate Bay website.
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- January 2003; 20 years ago
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By Chloe Albanesius. October 17, 2013. File-sharing service isoHunt will shut down as part of a $110 million copyright infringement deal reached with the Motion Picture Association of American...
Oct 31, 2013 · Isohunt was one of the most popular BitTorrent sites online; Fung claimed it had 44.2 million peers and 13.7 million active torrents. Earlier this month, the site was slated to shutter ...
Oct 30, 2013 · File-sharing behemoth isoHunt has relaunched under a new domain less than two weeks after the site’s owner shut it down as part of a $110 million settlement with the Motion Picture Association ...
Oct 21, 2013 · 2 min read. Another torrent site is to shut up shop after a court case. isoHunt is still live at time of writing, but will close soon. Its Canadian owner, Gary Fung, will have to pay $110 million...
