The popular torrent index site IsoHunt shuts down after losing a $110 million legal battle with MPAA led by lawyer Steven Fabrizio.
As a part of a settlement in the massive copyright infringement suit by MPAA and its Hollywood studios, IsoHunt agreed to pay $110 million for claims that the site induced violation in copyrighted materials, although IsoHunt never hosted such content. By shutting down, IsoHunt ended the seven-year battle over its operations.
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 thinks 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 it. 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
In the same month, several sites were launched to mirror IsoHunt, and one of them became its formal replacement.
