isoHunt - shut's down after 10 years.

Clive Woofer said:
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.
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Technically isoHunt did not host any torrents, it was simply an indexer for trackers.
 
Ok i just use torrents because i have never received an inv from a news host site or anyone for that matter so don't know how it works or where to get them.

But the torrent site i use the most is Piratebay and extra torrent.

How do you become a member of those sites and where to find them?
 
Kwaai said:
Netflix/Hulu :)


If you like downloading then --> SAbnzbd and Sickbeard :)
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I use the same combo, it has made me very lazy now. I don't even go to the nzbsa site anymore :p

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AlienTaker said:
Ok i just use torrents because i have never received an inv from a news host site or anyone for that matter so don't know how it works or where to get them.

But the torrent site i use the most is Piratebay and extra torrent.

How do you become a member of those sites and where to find them?
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google can find most of them, but most have subscription fees and the ones that don't are invite only

Astraweb is like R100 a month but apparently it is well worth it from the speeds you get
 
Cicero said:
The $110million settlement could also have something to do with it
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In that case, I'm going to go with that explanation then. :p

Ichigo said:
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.
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Yeah, but some of those guys are really crafty. They hide those .rar files inside other files or even inside iso's, so you can't always spot that it's a fake without downloading it first.

Recently I even found one where the installer itself forces you to go to a survey site once it reaches a certain point. Sneaky buggers.
 
Clive Woofer said:
Yeah, but some of those guys are really crafty. They hide those .rar files inside other files or even inside iso's, so you can't always spot that it's a fake without downloading it first.

Recently I even found one where the installer itself forces you to go to a survey site once it reaches a certain point. Sneaky buggers.
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Ja man, I'm with you on this. Its especially bad for software torrents.
 
AlienTaker said:
Well i havn't had that issue with Piratebay or with Extratorrent and i use Vuse bittorent client
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the thing is, newsgroups aren't P2P. everybody downloads from a server, so your downloads are HTTP based and their are none of those seed/leech dramas
 
Isohunt has become a "fake torrent black hole" lately. I stay away from them as you are never really guaranteed of getting what you are downloading and they have viruses and malware. :-)
 
dampi256 said:
Isohunt has become a "fake torrent black hole" lately. I stay away from them as you are never really guaranteed of getting what you are downloading and they have viruses and malware. :-)
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kickass is always my goto torrent. they have a nice community there so you can avoid all bad/fake/malicious downloads by just checking the comments section
 
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