Back in the late 90's/early 00's when they were last in power, their minister for Information Technology said the main reason people want broadband is porn. Our newly elected government consists of luddites and religious bigots with a 1950's worldview. I just assume the creators are the government and at this points its a honeypot. I personally wouldn't trust this site if they paid me to use it. It's just for whatever reason, people like to think that just 5% of these sites hosts the "wrong stuff" and the rest is completely innocent and "free". The world of torrenting is roughly comparable to NSA surveillance the transport system is a legitimate technology that can be quite legitimate if used properly, but as we all know now, the cases of abuse for both far outweigh the cases of success. There are millions of sites just like it and they'll spring right back up. IsoHunt is literally yet another me-too cookie-cutter piracy site that hides behind "Torrenting is not illegal!" and "Safe Harbor!" as they all do. Snowden is an icon of pursuing freedom of information. The reasons as to why you did not pay for them of course vary (ranging from genuine, such as no real way to buy stuff, to "cheapskate"), but for the love of whatever deity you believe in, please stop trying to force down my throat the idea that IsoHunt existed for the "freedom of information". IsoHunt was first and foremost a place to get things without having to pay for them.
I'm not "happy" or "outraged" either way that IsoHunt is gone, but seriously? a person who has pirated a game does not necessarily equate to a person who would have bought the game otherwise.Īs usual, the forced-down-your-throat naivety of the Internet shows it's ugly face. so the game execs screaming about how video game piracy is killing things are actually just overstating things.
recent research on the PC gaming industry has showed that they are actually doing quite damned well, and that one of the biggest boons to them has been moving to digital downloads. as a matter of fact, in some ways, the self-policing nature of torrents means that you're less likely to get "bad" stuff because people stop sharing the things that they find out are actually infected/fake/etcĤ. the wordpress fiasco from about a year ago is a good example. it's getting more and more likely that you get hacked just by browsing perfectly legit websites. there has been research showing that for a significant percentage of users, torrenting stuff illegal is because they have limited options - here's an entertaining take on it: ģ. legit stuff are also shared on/via torrentsĢ.
you don't *only* get keyloggers, viruses, pirated stuff, free porn on torrents. Stay away from the "free" stuff that isn't legal and you'll be just fine.ġ. I couldn't understand that because I'm not a hacker/torrent user/"free porn" addict.
I commented the other day about the benefits of Win 8 pro over RT and the biggest counter argument was RT was better at security, and that most keyloggers and viruses don't work on it.
All you get with your download is the latest viruses and spyware. The main goal is to restore the website with torrents and provide users with the same familiar interface.”Īrs would love to speak with the creators of isohunt.to, if they're reading this. We want those people to feel like being at home while visiting isohunt.to. People got used to it, and they don’t want to simply let it go. “IsoHunt can definitely be called a file-sharing icon. Media corporations don’t like innovation or competition, and isoHunt’s fate is one of the examples of how they deal with it,” isohunt.to’s creators told TorrentFreak. It’s a big loss to everyone who used it over the years.
“IsoHunt has been a great part of the torrent world for more than a decade. On Tuesday, TorrentFreak reported on the anonymous creators of the new site. torrent files once stored by isoHunt are gone forever," he told Ars. "Some random 3rd party ripping off 's HTML has no bearing on the fact that both the database and the. However, online records show that the new site is hosted in Australia.Ĭhip Parker, a former isoHunt admin, says that the old isoHunt is gone for good. Whois information on both domains turns up no contact information. The site even shut down a day early as a way to avoid being part of an online archive.īut now, what appears to be a cloned version of the site (available at isohunt.to and isohunt.ee) has emerged. Less than two weeks ago, IsoHunt, the notorious search engine site for BitTorrent files, agreed to shut down and pay $110 million in a settlement with the Motion Pictures of America Association.