isoHunt - shut's down after 10 years.

[Glordit]

Initiating Self Destruct

This is it. We are shutting down isoHunt services a little early. I'm told there was this Internet archival team that wants to make historical copy of our .torrent files, I'm honoured that people think our site is worthy of historical preservation. But the truth is about 95% of those .torrent files can be found off Google regardless and mostly have been indexed from other BitTorrent sites in the first place. So I might as well do a proper send-off to you dear isoHunt users, before final shutdown sequence on Tuesday. It's been an adventure in the last 10.5 years working on isoHunt, a privilege working with some of the smartest guys I've worked with, and my life won't be the same without this journey. For what I'm working on next, please look up my blog on Google and follow me there. Because as the Terminator would say with a German accent,

I'll be backkk.

- Gary Fung

http://www.ibtimes.com/isohunt-shut...scheduled-closing-part-110-million-settlement

Ah, well it was fun while it lasted.

 

[MalicE]

http://www.ibtimes.com/isohunt-shut...scheduled-closing-part-110-million-settlement

Ah, well it was fun while it lasted.

we still have kickass

I actually moved away from torrents, but they're still good for when I'm looking for older stuff

 

[InSanity]

we still have kickass

I actually moved away from torrents, but they're still good for when I'm looking for older stuff

I cant remember when last I used a torrent

 

[MalicE]

I cant remember when last I used a torrent

last week to download Rob Zombies Halloween

 

[InSanity]

last week to download Rob Zombies Halloween

Actually I can't remember when I downloaded full stop

 

[sycogrim]

we still have kickass

I actually moved away from torrents, but they're still good for when I'm looking for older stuff

This ^^

If I need to find some old stuffs I'll use torrents, other than that I don't touch them

 

[Roomys]

Rather sad really, got a lot of non mainstream stuff from there

 

[Ichigo]

Isohunt actually became worse and worse and was way easier to find series and other things on kickass torrents.

 

[Cicero]

I'm still using torrents (eztv), what do you guys use instead?

 

[BeoTeK]

http://www.ibtimes.com/isohunt-shut...scheduled-closing-part-110-million-settlement

Ah, well it was fun while it lasted.

Quite unfortunate!

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I cant remember when last I used a torrent

Then what medium you use?
News servers, that like SABNZBD thingy?!

 

[Ichigo]

I'm still using torrents (eztv), what do you guys use instead?

I use eztv or LoL for my torrents since they seem to have the best quality and a good size.

 

[InSanity]

I use friends and family as my primary source and newsgroups as my secondary

 

[Cicero]

I use friends and family as my primary source and newsgroups as my secondary

You're at varsity right? Those were the easy days of getting series.

 

[Ichigo]

I use friends and family as my primary source and newsgroups as my secondary

Wish I could but their line speeds suck compared to mine so I can download 4 times as much as them .

 

[MalicE]

I'm still using torrents (eztv), what do you guys use instead?

www.nzbsa.co.za

newsgroups FTW!

 

[Cicero]

www.nzbsa.co.za

newsgroups FTW!

You need to be invited right? How else do you get a username and whatnot?

 

[MalicE]

You need to be invited right? How else do you get a username and whatnot?

yeah I think most newsgroups are invite only. I'm still looking for an invite to newshost

 

[Clive Woofer]

I guess isoHunt just couldn't compete with piratebay, which has a dedicated team of moderators constantly checking for and removing fake torrents. I can't count the number of times I downloaded an torrent which was upvoted and had a good rating from isoHunt just to find a survey waiting for me when it was done.

 

[Cicero]

The $110million settlement could also have something to do with it

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yeah I think most newsgroups are invite only. I'm still looking for an invite to newshost

So uh Malice...any spare invites you got there?

 

[Ichigo]

I guess isoHunt just couldn't compete with piratebay, which has a dedicated team of moderators constantly checking for and removing fake torrents. I can't count the number of times I downloaded an torrent which was upvoted and had a good rating from isoHunt just to find a survey waiting for me when it was done.

You can check in the file info before downloading if it is a fake torrent since they will use a zip program.

Even shows me whats in there before I add it to my torrent client so no need to waste bandwidth.