isoHunt
Sign in to saveisoHunt was an online torrent files index and repository, where visitors could browse, search, download or upload torrents of various digital content of mostly entertainment nature. The website was taken down in October 2013 as a result of a legal action from the MPAA; by the end of October 2013 however, two sites with content presumably mirrored from isohunt.com were reported in media. One of them – isohunt.to – became a de facto replacement of the original site. It is not associated in any way with the old staff or owners of the site, and is to be understood as a separate continuation.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Isohunt.to
- Website.logo
- 150px
- Website.screenshot
- isoHunt screenshot.png
- Website.caption
- isoHunt logo and homepage
- Website.url
- oldpiratebay.org
- Website.commercial
- No
- Website.type
- Torrent index
- Website.registration
- Optional; mandatory for uploading
- Website.language
- English
- Website.content_license
- Free access
- Website.owner
- anonymous
- Website.author
- anonymous
- Website.revenue
- Online advertisingDonations
- Website.current_status
- Online
- Website.logocaption
- Isohunt.to uses logo of original isoHunt
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Legal
- Correspondence with the MPAA
- Lawsuit
- DMCA takedown notices
- Lawsuit against the CRIA
- Internet service providers
- Shutdown as part of settlement with MPAA
- Technical details
- IsoHunt clones
- OldPirateBay.org and The Open Bay
- OldPirateBay.org
- The Open Bay
- See also
- References
- External links
isoHunt was an online torrent files index and repository, where visitors could browse, search, download or upload torrents of various digital content of mostly entertainment nature. The website was taken down in October 2013 as a result of a legal action from the MPAA; by the end of October 2013 however, two sites with content presumably mirrored from isohunt.com were reported in media. One of them – isohunt.to – became a de facto replacement of the original site. It is not associated in any way with the old staff or owners of the site, and is to be understood as a separate continuation.
It originated in 2003 as isohunt.com website for IRC files search and reached over 13.7 million torrents in its database and 20 million peers from indexed torrents. With 7.4 million unique visitors , isoHunt was one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Thousands of torrents were added to and deleted from it every day. Users of isoHunt performed over 40 million unique searches per month. On October 19, 2008, isoHunt passed the 1 petabyte mark for torrents indexed globally. The site was the third most popular BitTorrent site . According to isoHunt, the total amount of shared content was more than 14.11 petabytes .