Full Version: Isohunt.......
Is dead. Let us mourn the loss of this great bit torrent sharing site. Canada's biggest achievement since the invention of hockey
It seems to be business as usual in my part of Europe. 
It seems it only the US who's being redirected to the lite version?
It seems it only the US who's being redirected to the lite version?
From the Jump Page on the US End:
Announcements:
April 5, 2010 - US users, welcome to the lighter and lightning fast isoHunt! Although we bring this new search engine to you with a burden from the lawsuit brought by the MPAA, we hope you understand the reason why we are making this change. It is to address concerns Judge Wilson has over inducing copyright infringement in the US. Though inducement is never our intention and we have evidence to support it, with isoHunt Lite we want to affirm publicly that isoHunt's function is nothing more than a search engine with all the net neutrality it affords and should be afforded.
Despite rumors that we are ordered to keyword filter for US, there's only a proposed order, no actual order. Freedom of speech, non-infringing use and technical implementability issues are still being debated in further court briefs. We have not done any keyword filtering and is fighting all we can not to, because we believe search terms are ambiguous by nature, and any requirement to keyword filter is a violation of freedom of speech and amounts to no less than censorship. There is much non-infringing uses of BitTorrent technology and we hope you will be able to continue to use isoHunt for these uses, free of constraints by large holes in the english dictionary because your search triggered a keyword in a title of one of the million movies that have been produced.
Why would you still use isoHunt you ask now that it's just like Google and Yahoo and you can search for torrents with those? While we won't dispute there's fundamental difference, on isoHunt Lite you get ranking by seeds/leechers and ratings besides search relevancy and age. A general search engine also do not group as one for identical torrents spread on multiple websites on the Web. Your continued use of isoHunt will also support our upcoming appeal against the MPAA, and we thank you in advance.
To protest the possibility we may be required by US law in upcoming injunction to keyword filter for US users, we have redirected isohunt.com to isohunt.hk to demonstrate the similarity to certain other popular search engine also required to censor in China. Requiring any internet search engine to filter broad keyword searches is absurd. The DMCA mandates with reason that copyright notice and takedown requested by copyright holders be done under penalty of perjury with accurate identifcation, with standard practice of URLs, not broad mucking with the dictionary. If you want to join us in protest, share this by tweet, facebook, etc. and write to Congress. Donation to organizations like the EFF will also help.
Happy April Fool's Month, and Happy Easter.
UPDATE: for users hating not able to sort, this is one you shouldn't care about. isoHunt Lite obviously has stripped a lot of features, sorting however uses the same "isoHunt Rank" method that's default on regular isoHunt, and is the best sorting method as it combines multiple factors, not just by seeds or leechers. Consider the better, default ranking a feature you don't get on other websites. Also note the Cached links at last lines of search results for a cached .torrent in case the original site is down or changed.
*if this keeps up Darkside may be the only place left for torrenting save demonoid*
Announcements:
April 5, 2010 - US users, welcome to the lighter and lightning fast isoHunt! Although we bring this new search engine to you with a burden from the lawsuit brought by the MPAA, we hope you understand the reason why we are making this change. It is to address concerns Judge Wilson has over inducing copyright infringement in the US. Though inducement is never our intention and we have evidence to support it, with isoHunt Lite we want to affirm publicly that isoHunt's function is nothing more than a search engine with all the net neutrality it affords and should be afforded.
Despite rumors that we are ordered to keyword filter for US, there's only a proposed order, no actual order. Freedom of speech, non-infringing use and technical implementability issues are still being debated in further court briefs. We have not done any keyword filtering and is fighting all we can not to, because we believe search terms are ambiguous by nature, and any requirement to keyword filter is a violation of freedom of speech and amounts to no less than censorship. There is much non-infringing uses of BitTorrent technology and we hope you will be able to continue to use isoHunt for these uses, free of constraints by large holes in the english dictionary because your search triggered a keyword in a title of one of the million movies that have been produced.
Why would you still use isoHunt you ask now that it's just like Google and Yahoo and you can search for torrents with those? While we won't dispute there's fundamental difference, on isoHunt Lite you get ranking by seeds/leechers and ratings besides search relevancy and age. A general search engine also do not group as one for identical torrents spread on multiple websites on the Web. Your continued use of isoHunt will also support our upcoming appeal against the MPAA, and we thank you in advance.
To protest the possibility we may be required by US law in upcoming injunction to keyword filter for US users, we have redirected isohunt.com to isohunt.hk to demonstrate the similarity to certain other popular search engine also required to censor in China. Requiring any internet search engine to filter broad keyword searches is absurd. The DMCA mandates with reason that copyright notice and takedown requested by copyright holders be done under penalty of perjury with accurate identifcation, with standard practice of URLs, not broad mucking with the dictionary. If you want to join us in protest, share this by tweet, facebook, etc. and write to Congress. Donation to organizations like the EFF will also help.
Happy April Fool's Month, and Happy Easter.
UPDATE: for users hating not able to sort, this is one you shouldn't care about. isoHunt Lite obviously has stripped a lot of features, sorting however uses the same "isoHunt Rank" method that's default on regular isoHunt, and is the best sorting method as it combines multiple factors, not just by seeds or leechers. Consider the better, default ranking a feature you don't get on other websites. Also note the Cached links at last lines of search results for a cached .torrent in case the original site is down or changed.
*if this keeps up Darkside may be the only place left for torrenting save demonoid*
WOW....that really sucks!!!!One more site down thw tubes
Sad news indeed,I use it alot but isnt there a site u can go to that will allow u to still us isohunt,like a proxy siteI used one to view Torrentspy before it went down forever
QUOTE (waitingforthis @ Apr 6 2010, 04:04 PM) 
Sad news indeed,I use it alot but isnt there a site u can go to that will allow u to still us isohunt,like a proxy siteI used one to view Torrentspy before it went down forever
YES! That did work! I'm so Happy! I used www.darkhide.com and I got in. It's Leaching and seeding time
QUOTE (Skerrako @ Apr 7 2010, 11:00 AM)
YES! That did work! I'm so Happy! I used www.darkhide.com and I got in. It's Leaching and seeding time
WOW! i checked it out.. Pretty awesome!
Moved from General
QUOTE (Skerrako @ Apr 7 2010, 01:00 AM)
YES! That did work! I'm so Happy! I used www.darkhide.com and I got in. It's Leaching and seeding time
This is a great site,thanks
dose anyone have a problem getting to sort by seeds or movies on the www.darkhide.com I dont seem to be able to do anything except page or download 
I have been trying to find out how to circumvent the US restriction for isoHunt and on a side note trying to learn more about Jaybob. So when I went to look at jaybob's site trying to learn more about him. They recommended sites that could bypass the US restrictions, like flowerhide.com and these
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to hide your ip allowing you to get the full version of isoHunt. Far be it from me to believe in conspiracy theories. But, 1st Jaybob appeared from no where with his own web page no less and unless he is aXXo reincarnate where the heck has he been and why appear now, especially with all the current media, after all the piracy enforcement. and are these proxies legit? Whats their angle?
I would greatly appreciate anyone's input and insight. Jaybob has got a lot of tempting stuff and these proxies are doing the job of bypassing US restrictions. But, it seems to good to be true and you know what they say, If it's to good to be true...
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to hide your ip allowing you to get the full version of isoHunt. Far be it from me to believe in conspiracy theories. But, 1st Jaybob appeared from no where with his own web page no less and unless he is aXXo reincarnate where the heck has he been and why appear now, especially with all the current media, after all the piracy enforcement. and are these proxies legit? Whats their angle?
I would greatly appreciate anyone's input and insight. Jaybob has got a lot of tempting stuff and these proxies are doing the job of bypassing US restrictions. But, it seems to good to be true and you know what they say, If it's to good to be true...
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