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 isoHunt logo and homepage | |
Type of site | Torrent index |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | isoHunt Inc. (Gary Fung) |
| Created by | Gary Fung |
| Revenue | Online advertising Donations Paid membership |
| URL | isohunt.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional; mandatory for uploading |
| Launched | January 2003 |
| Current status | Offline[α] |
Content license | Free access |
| α Functional clones have been created by others | |
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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.[1]
It originated in 2003 as isohunt.com website for IRC files search and reached over 13.7 million[2] torrents in its database and 20 million peers from indexed torrents.[3] With 7.4 million unique visitors as of May 2006[update], 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 as of 2008[update].[4] According to isoHunt, the total amount of shared content was more than 14.11 petabytes as of June 13, 2012[update].[5]
The site came to an end when the legal battles that isoHunt's founder had been in for years with conglomerates of IP rights holders over allegations of copyright infringing came to a head. A settlement with the MPAA was reached in 2013, stipulating a $110 million reimbursement for damages and the site's closure that followed on October 21, 2013.[6]
- ^ Ernesto (29 October 2013). "IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal". TorrentFreak. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ "Toolbar and Stats". Isohunt.com. Retrieved 2013-10-19.
- ^ "BitTorrent Sites Statistics". Isohunt.com. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
- ^ "Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008". Torrentfreak.com. 2008-12-28.
- ^ "Isohunt Home". isohunt. 2009-11-03. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- ^ Ernesto (17 October 2013). "IsoHunt Shuts Down After $110 Million Settlement With The MPAA". TorrentFreak. Retrieved 4 June 2015.