Another site going off-line Isohunt

[Dean-]

Another site being taken off-line. Another 4 will replace it

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24580130

 

 

[Dean-]

To add to that... it is now closed.

[Dr Zoidberg]

So it has.

That's one I'd visited on odd occasions, but I doubt it will make much difference.

[Dean-]

So it has.

That's one I'd visited on odd occasions, but I doubt it will make much difference.

 

It were a good site... Many more will take its place.

[whitep]

Just use Piratebay for all your freeware needs

[BJB540]

Just use Piratebay for all your freeware needs

 

Sorry, the web page you have requested is not available through Virgin Media.

 

:( Need to use a proxy.

[Dean-]

Sorry, the web page you have requested is not available through Virgin Media.

 

:( Need to use a proxy.

 

 

Really annoys me when ISPs do that... Slowly controlling what is & what isnt deemed as acceptable for its users to go on... Each and every day more becoming like China!

[Dean-]

Here is what it looks like for those users who are with an ISP that block everything :/

 

 

[BJB540]

Really annoys me when ISPs do that... Slowly controlling what is & what isnt deemed as acceptable for its users to go on... Each and every day more becoming like China!

 

And a 'Rick' to end the site

[Binzie]

End of an era 

[@Lee]

every time I want TPB or eztv, I just add 'proxy' after in the search bar, never fails

 

Never used ISOHunt though.

[GentleGiant]

ISOHunt was always a rock solid website, I used it in preference to PB mainly because of that, PB is so flaky that you spend half your time reloading the page because it has timed out.

 

Oh well, there are still a few good (but quiet) sites to get my fix of US shows a year before they reach the UK.

[MaZvRSTSI]

Meh......isohunt was good but ya know...there are plenty more out there.....It managed to stay under the radar for a long long time.....

[hardcorehobbit]

I got a plug in called MediaHint.


Let's you use American catch up services like each networks version of iPlayer. Don't see why it isn't perfectly legal.

[Lady Elanore]

I never used this site, but did it allow people to circumvent copywrite material? ie share stuff they weren't entitled too?  I'm sure they did a lot of good stuff too

[swordstoke]

Its' amazing Gary Fung kept it alive for 10.5 years!

 

According to Alexa.com, it ranked as the 423rd top site on the web for global traffic and 167th in Canada.

 

Look's like he will be paying for the privilege longer than that.

[BJB540]

Its' amazing Gary Fung kept it alive for 10.5 years!

 

According to Alexa.com, it ranked as the 423rd top site on the web for global traffic and 167th in Canada.

 

Look's like he will be paying for the privilege longer than that.

 

He probably has the cash to spare though I'd imagine, think about that traffic volume, then think about how much he probably got paid for adverts on a site that busy.

[Dann2707]

I never went directly to torrent sites directly but used a search engine instead like Torrentz. Eu as I found it searches for the healthiest one.

[whitep]

we are slowly turning into china or syria!!! Piratebay can be accessed through pirateproxy then select one of the many mirrors.

[Dr Zoidberg]

we are slowly turning into china or syria!!! Piratebay can be accessed through pirateproxy then select one of the many mirrors.

 

I hardly think that people in Syria's greatest concern is where they can download this week's episode of The Walking Dead.

 

You might find it inconvenient to have your favourite torrent site blocked, but it's not at all unreasonable for copyright holders and ISPs to do this.

[whitep]

Yes, quite right Dr Zoidberg. I am, of course, being lighthearted about the subject.

[Dr Zoidberg]

I never used this site, but did it allow people to circumvent copywrite material? ie share stuff they weren't entitled too?  I'm sure they did a lot of good stuff too

 

Yep, like most torrent sites, it's primary purpose was piracy.

I'll admit to downloading US TV shows as there's quite a lot that doesn't make it over here, or as a shortcut to avoid the wait for them to be on a freeview channel, or there's no way of getting them without lining Mr Murdoch's pockets.

If there was a legal and sensibly priced alternative method I'd probably be near the head of the queue.

When it comes to music I only rarely download, and that's usually as a way to hear a bit more of an album that I'm not sure about before I buy it. Without that option I almost certainly wouldn't "risk" the money, and I think that's worked out very nicely for the record industry on the whole. I've spent a lot of money on bands that I've first heard through a copied CD. One that I went to see a few days ago I first got a CDR from my brother and I've then bought 8 albums and been to 20+ live shows.

 

Films I don't download either. I'll very happily pay cinema prices for anything new that I want to see, and then Lovefilm gets me all the rest.

[swordstoke]

For me it was great to find long lost shows (radio broadcasts)that never made it to the popular format of cd/dvd. 

Isohunt wasn't particularly rich in these and admit when Demonoid was pulled I lost interest in the scene.

 

Some fabulous stuff was to be found like the deleted Bugs Bunny show that are no longer 'PC' and Radio shows of the Goons and Willy Rushton persuasion.

All lost without the few out there who had the foresight to preserve them when the original broadcaster didn't.

[AlphaPapa]

*cough* http://come.in/ *cough*

[Binzie]