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| Jul 23, 2016 | isoHunt Founder Settles with Music Industry for $66 Million | After years of legal battles, isoHunt and its founder Gary Fung are free at last.
Today, Fung announced that he has settled the last remaining lawsuit with Music Canada, formerly known as the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).
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| Nov 19, 2013 | IsoHunt Founder Promotes “Freedom to Share” With New Clothing Line | After a legal battle of nearly eight years isoHunt founder Gary Fung announced the site’s closure last month.
Fung signed a $110 million settlement with the MPAA and shut down isoHunt.com as stipulated in the agreement with the movie studio... |
| Oct 22, 2013 | Torrent site isoHunt closes early to foil backup plan | In a bid to foil plans to create a backup of the site, isoHunt closes its doors ahead of its planned shutdown. On 16 October, isoHunt founder Gary Fung struck a deal with the MPAA, bringing to an end a series of court battles that have wage... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | isoHunt Shuts Down Early to Block Backup Plan | After a legal battle of nearly eight years isoHunt founder Gary Fung announced the site’s closure last week.
Fung signed a $110 million settlement with the MPAA and planned to shut down the site Tuesday night as stipulated in the agreement ... |
| Sep 15, 2013 | MPAA’s Court Ordered Piracy Filter Censors Many Legitimate Files | Almost three years ago the U.S. District Court of California ordered BitTorrent search engine isoHunt to start filtering its search results.
The Court ordered the filtering of the search engine based on a list of thousands of keywords provi... |
| Jul 20, 2013 | MPAA Demands Source Code of isoHunt’s “Failing” Piracy Filter | Almost three years ago the U.S. District Court of California ordered BitTorrent search engine isoHunt to start filtering its search results.
The injunction was the result of isoHunt’s protracted court battle with the MPAA that began back in... |
| Mar 31, 2013 | The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse | Less than two years ago we published an overview of the most used file-sharing sites, covering both BitTorrent and traditional cyberlockers.
At the time one-click download sites were beating BitTorrent sites by a landslide. However, the cyb... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | isoHunt Loses Appeal Against the MPAA, Keyword Filter Remains | Almost three years ago the U.S. District Court of California ordered BitTorrent search engine isoHunt to start filtering its search results.
The injunction was the result of isoHunt’s protracted court battle with the MPAA that started back ... |
| Jan 22, 2013 | isoHunt Turns 10 Years Old, Keeps on Fighting Copyright Cartels | IsoHunt celebrates its 10th birthday today. Although torrents weren’t added to the search engine until August 2003, the site is one of the longest surviving BitTorrent sites around.
The fact that it’s still around is an achievement in itsel... |
| Jan 22, 2013 | BitTorrent is alive and well -- isoHunt turns 10 years old | Despite the best efforts of the MPAA, RIAA and even the U.S. federal government, file sharing and BitTorrent are alive and well. While Kim Dotcom has launched his new Mega site (not BitTorrent tracking, just file storage and sharing) and th... |
| Jan 6, 2013 | Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013 | Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2013?
Update: 2021’s best torrent sites
Traditionally BitTorrent users are very loyal, which is reflected in the top 10 where most sites have had a consistent listing for more than h... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | Pirate Bay and isoHunt Respond to Google Search Result Punishment | Last week Google announced that it would lower the search engine rankings of websites that receive a high number of DMCA takedown requests, independent of whether the linked content is lawful or not.
The algorithm change is being implemente... |
| Jun 4, 2012 | Top Torrent Sites Respect Copyright Takedowns, Just Like Google | TorrentFreak asked several of the most popular BitTorrent sites (and top DMCA targets on Google) about their takedown policies. Although they differ quite a bit in terms of the number of requests they receive per day, they all remove copyri... |
| Apr 9, 2012 | Forced MPAA Filter On IsoHunt Means Legitimate Content Is Being Censored | One of the more bizarre rulings in copyright/file sharing cases was the district court ruling in the IsoHunt search engine case a couple years ago. It’s still involved in the appeals process, but the district court is one of the only courts... |
| Apr 6, 2012 | MPAA Filter Censors Legit Torrent Files on isoHunt | Nearly two years ago the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.
The Court ordered the owner of isoHunt to start censoring the site’s search engine based on a list of thousan... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Record Labels Threaten the Open Internet, isoHunt Tells Court | In 2010 a conglomerate of record labels – including the ‘Big Four’ of Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal – went after BitTorrent site isoHunt.
The site and its owner are accused of facilitating copyright infringement on a massive scale. Throug... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | Is BitTorrent Done? Major Torrent Sites Consider Shutting Down | For nearly a decade BitTorrent sites have ruled the file-sharing landscape.
In recent weeks, however, worry about the future has increased drastically among the owners of some of the largest torrent sites. Yesterday, BTjunkie closed its doo... |
| Feb 6, 2012 | The Best BTjunkie Alternatives | A few hours ago BTjunkie decided to voluntarily shut down its website.
While the owners were convinced that they offered a legal technology platform, recent events such as the MegaUpload raids and the Pirate Bay verdict took away much of th... |
| Jan 7, 2012 | Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2012 | Update: here is the list of 2020’s best torrenting sites.
Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2012? At first glance little seems to have changed, as many of the sites in the top 10 have been among the top torrent sites... |
| Nov 23, 2011 | Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More | Since January 2011, Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete‘ and ‘Instant‘ services.
Google users searching for terms like “torrent”, “BitTorrent” and “RapidShare” will notice that no suggestions and search r... |
| Aug 2, 2011 | isoHunt Turns 8, Keeps on Fighting Big Media | A few prominent BitTorrent search engines are celebrating their 8th anniversary this year.
On July 24 Torrentz silently celebrated its birthday, and this week it’s isoHunt’s turn. They even have a special anniversary t-shirt designed for th... |
| May 16, 2011 | isoHunt Launches “Talk to Torrent” Feature | BitTorrent search engine isoHunt implemented a nifty feature a few days ago.
You can now search for torrents without having to touch a keyboard. Just talk into your microphone and isoHunt’s cutting edge technology does the rest.
“We beat go... |
| May 7, 2011 | MPAA Has Nothing On Us, isoHunt Tells Court | May last year the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.
The injunction is the result of isoHunt’s protracted court battle with the MPAA that started back in 2006. The Court... |
| Apr 2, 2011 | isoHunt Recruits Anti-Piracy Programmer | We should have posted this announcement yesterday, but better late than never. The Canadian BitTorrent search engine isoHunt, the one that’s been battling the MPAA, has just posted a new job offer.
To protect the interest of big media isoHu... |
| Feb 20, 2011 | Google Gets Involved in BitTorrent Search Engine Lawsuit | In May last year the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.
The Court ordered the owner of isoHunt to start censoring the site’s search engine based on a list of thousands o... |
| Jan 5, 2011 | Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2011 | What’s hot in the wonderful world of BitTorrent in 2011? At first glance little seems to have changed, as the top 3 is identical to that of last year. But moving down the list we see quite a few movers and shakers as well as a surprising ne... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | isoHunt Continues Legal Fight To Thwart MPAA Censorship | In May this year the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.
The injunction is the result of isoHunt’s protracted court battle with the MPAA that started back in 2006. The co... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | isoHunt Revives Full Search After U.S. Traffic Tanks | Following legal pressure brought by the MPAA, BitTorrent search engine isoHunt redirected all visitors from the United States to a Lite version of the site in April.
With this action, isoHunt hoped to prevent a judicial order which would re... |
| Aug 22, 2010 | The Most Popular Torrent Sites Of The Last Five Years | Despite many legal battles and pressure from anti-piracy outfits, the lists of the most visited torrent sites through the years show very little change. In fact, in half a decade only five torrent sites have taken a spot in the top three, a... |
| Jul 24, 2010 | Tech News Sites Tout Misleading BitTorrent Piracy Study | Every so often a new study surfaces that attempts to describe the BitTorrent landscape. Yesterday a study by the Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) was publicized (pdf) and the researchers found that only 0.3% of all torrents were... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | IsoHunt Partners US Attorney General to Ban Child Porn | To combat the distribution of child pornography on the Internet, New York Attorney General Cuomo has started a hash value database. Site owners can use the database to voluntarily prevent thousands of illegal files from being shared via lin... |
| Jun 27, 2010 | IsoHunt Tells Court That MPAA’s Filter is Needless Censorship | Last month the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.
Gary Fung, the owner of isoHunt, was ordered to start censoring the site’s search engine based on a list of thousands o... |
| May 6, 2010 | Canada Fast-Tracks Draconian Anti-Piracy Law | In 2008, Canadian lawmakers proposed a new anti-piracy bill dubbed C-61. The plans met great opposition from the public and were eventually wiped from the table later that year prior to the federal elections. Last year, the Government decid... |
| Apr 6, 2010 | isoHunt Redirects US Visitors to Lite Version | Early 2006, the MPAA issued a complaint against isoHunt and its sister site Torrentbox, claiming that owner Gary Fung operated file-sharing services and profited from copyright infringement.
The case has been dragging on ever since and last... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | IsoHunt Stuck Behind China’s Great Firewall | China is no stranger to Internet censorship. The country’s Great Firewall includes many well known sites, but up until now BitTorrent sites have never been blocked.
There was a short blocking incident two years ago when Mininova, isoHunt an... |
| Feb 27, 2010 | Top 10 Torrent Sites Soon Without Mininova | Looking for the best torrent sites of 2011?
Compared to a year ago the BitTorrent landscape has changed significantly. The Pirate Bay decided to shut down its tracker last fall and a few weeks later Mininova partly shut down its website. Ho... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | isoHunt to Appeal in MPAA Lawsuit, Sees The Lite | Early 2006, the MPAA issued a complaint against isoHunt and its sister site Torrentbox, claiming that owner Gary Fung operated file-sharing services and profited from copyright infringement.
The lengthy legal procedure that followed came to... |
| Dec 13, 2009 | Top 25 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2009 | Update: The 2021 list of top torrent sites is published here.
2009 has been an eventful year for several well-established torrent sites, with The Pirate Bay, isoHunt and Mininova all battling in court against the entertainment industries. F... |
| Nov 27, 2009 | IsoHunt Asks Court to Legalize Its Operations | During September 2008, isoHunt founder Gary Fung grew tired of the threats from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Instead of waiting for the CRIA to take action against him, Fung took the unusual step of suing the music in... |
| Nov 26, 2009 | Torrent giant Mininova takes down all copyright infringing content | Article content
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| Nov 26, 2009 | 10 Alternatives To Mininova | With an impressive 175,820,430 visits and close to a billion page views in the last 30 days, Mininova set a record that they will be unable to break in the near future. Last August a Dutch court ruled that Mininova had to remove all links t... |
| Aug 22, 2009 | 25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives | Replacing The Pirate Bay is easier said then done. The tracker is currently responsible for approximately half of all public torrent transfers, which represents a significant percentage of global Internet traffic.
However, history has shown... |
| Jul 29, 2009 | BitTorrent Behind the Scenes: isoHunt | This summer TorrentFreak features the workstations and offices belonging to some of the leading figures in the BitTorrent community. In our first article in this series the founder of BTjunkie was kind enough to give us a little insight int... |
| Jul 17, 2009 | PWN Last.fm Brings Torrents to Last.fm | With millions of active users, Last.fm is one the largest and most appreciated music communities on the Internet. Its main purpose is to create a personalized library of all the music users play, but it’s also a handy music discovery tool a... |
| Jul 13, 2009 | MPAA Will Hunt Down isoHunt Founder for Life | Where the RIAA is mostly interested in pursuing individual file-sharers in court, the MPAA has taken on several of the largest torrent sites on the Internet. After being awarded $110 million in their case against TorrentSpy last year, they ... |
| May 3, 2009 | Record Label Sponsors BitTorrent Site isoHunt | Awesome New Republic is a two member indie band based in Miami, Florida. Both band members graduated at Frost School of Music and their first album, released in 2005, was well received by the critics. Together with their label Honor Roll Mu... |
| May 1, 2009 | Court ruling on isoHunt could have huge ramifications, says founder | Article content
I met with Gary Fung, the founder of the BitTorrent site isoHunt this week and he talked about his legal battles with the MPAA in the United States and his court case in British Columbia in which he is seeking to have his we... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | The Pirate Bay: A roadblock or paving the way for isoHunt? | Article content
The Pirate Bay’s web site remains up with it founders vowing to fight a Swedish court decision that leaves them liable to pay a hefty fine plus spend a year in jail.
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| Mar 22, 2009 | Poll: Why Do You Use BitTorrent? | Technically speaking, it is impossible to steal something when you are using BitTorrent, as the original files always stay intact. Nevertheless, the entertainment industry likes to label BitTorrent sites as evil places, where thieves gather... |
| Mar 20, 2009 | Download Torrents Remotely With Pirate Bay’s Personal RSS | Downloading torrents remotely can come in quite handy when you’re at work, in a record store or at a friends place. With a new feature at the Pirate Bay, you can do this with relative ease.
Instead of downloading the torrent directly, users... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | Court case threatens to make Google illegal in Canada? | Article content
A Vancouver company is taking on the recording industry in a BC Supreme Court case that could have far-reaching implications for search engines like Google and Yahoo.
isoHunt has the isoHunt Web site and two others, TorrentB... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | When tech mirrors life | I have a mate called Marts who I’ve known for 25 years. Marts is always completely bloody minded and the stories about him are legend.
He was fired from his first job two weeks in because he altered the artwork on his business cards to get ... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | Download Steal This Film – Spectrial Edition | The first two parts of the Steal This Film documentaries have been a great success. Both releases were downloaded an estimated 5 millions times each, and both films remain well seeded on BitTorrent up until today.
Later this year, the Leagu... |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Controversy as Google Ads Appear on IsoHunt | According to a report in the Norwegian press today, some companies have reacted uncomfortably to the news that their Google Adwords text ads have been appearing on IsoHunt, the world’s third largest BitTorrent site.
Google has a policy of n... |
| Dec 28, 2008 | Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008 | Tip: Want to download Torrents anonymously? Try TorrentPrivacy, the only way to download torrents securely.
The list is based on traffic rank reports from Compete and Alexa, backed up by visitor reports from some of the site admins.
Update:... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Search and Download Torrents from your iPhone | Previously we reported on the iPhone UI for uTorrent. With an interface optimized for the iPhone, it can be used to access your BitTorrent client from your iPhone when you’re away from your computer.
There was one problem though, since the ... |
| Nov 9, 2008 | isoHunt Founder Gary Fung on Copyfight | Guest post by Gary Fung, founder of isoHunt.com.
Since I’ve been sued by both the MPAA (Hollywood) and the CRIA (Canadian recording industry), I’ve talked about what’s been happening with our cases. Our CRIA case has also recently received ... |
| Nov 8, 2008 | China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites | Just a week ago, reports came in that China had started to ban 10 video hosting sites, allegedly because of “regulations violations”. Other sites, including China’s largest eDonkey indexing site, VeryCD, received warnings. A few days later,... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | The Pirate Bay Tops 20 Million Peers | By November 2007, The Pirate Bay was tracking around 6 million peers, up from ‘just’ 3 million the year before. The growth has been amazing, and it doesn’t seem that it is going to slow down anytime soon.
One of the reasons it was possible ... |
| Oct 11, 2008 | Canadian Democrats are Pro BitTorrent and Against Throttling | Jack Layton, leader of the Canadian New Democrats is a proponent of net-neutrality, and he believes that social networking sites, YouTube and torrent sites are great services that should be available to everyone.
In a direct message to our ... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | CopySense Sleek Predator, or White Elephant? | We recently reported how Ohio University spent more than $75,000 on the CopySense anti-piracy system, and we promised an insight into how the system works. CopySense is the network equivalent of the Eye of Sauron, watching over the lands it... |
| Sep 7, 2008 | Anti-Piracy Scam Emails Target BitTorrent Users | Over the years BitTorrent has attracted some shady figures. We’ve reported on malware ridden BitTorrent clients and media players, a BitTorrent site that infects its users with spyware, and several other scams.
Although most scams can be av... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | isoHunt Sues the CRIA to Legalize BitTorrent Sites | The CRIA is known for taking on BitTorrent sites. In the past year they have threatened Demonoid and other BitTorrent sites, and taken legal action against QuebecTorrent. Now, they have set their sights on isoHunt, one of the largest BitTor... |
| Sep 1, 2008 | BitTorrent Searches Skyrocket as Sites Grow | The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt combined achieve over a billion pageviews a month. These are quite remarkable statistics when you consider that together, the trio run on less than 100 servers (cf. Facebook has 10,000).
Despite all thre... |
| Jul 5, 2008 | Top Torrent Sites Ranked by Google | It is hard to make a definite list of the most popular BitTorrent sites. Over the years we’ve made quite a few lists, and reported some of the latest trends. Most lists we published were based on Alexa‘s ranking, mainly because it was prett... |
| Jun 27, 2008 | IsoHunt Goes Secure, Adds SSL Encryption | Last week, The Pirate Bay announced that it will allow its users to browse the site securely, this in response to the new wiretapping law that was recently approved in Sweden. Long before this law was passed, another BitTorrent site, isoHun... |
| Jun 21, 2008 | IsoHunt adds 10.000 Free and Legal Albums | When BitTorrent sites have come under attack by media groups and their battalions of lawyers, it’s usual for them to pull up the drawbridge and keep the site going as is, and try to get the case over with as soon as possible. The other opti... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | BitTorrent Trio Hit a Billion Pageviews a Month | Most recently, isoHunt managed to get a spot among the 100 120 most visited domains on the Internet, according to Alexa’s new and improved statistics.
Isohunt – the third largest BitTorrent site with 350.000.000 pageviews a month – is one o... |
| May 4, 2008 | isoHunt and MPAA Debate Legality of BitTorrent Sites | The isoHunt vs. MPAA case has been dragging on for more than two years now. It basically comes down to the question whether a BitTorrent site is facilitating copyright infringement by indexing .torrent files, that in some cases point to cop... |
| Mar 22, 2008 | BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth | We decided to compile a list of the 25 most popular BitTorrent sites, and see how their (relative) popularity has grown over the past three months. Out of the 25 sites in the list, 21 improved their ranking in Alexa’s list of most popular s... |
| Mar 3, 2008 | isoHunt Now Indexes 1 Million Torrents | isoHunt has been around for ages, longer than almost any other BitTorrent site in existence today, and they are still moving forward. Last month they released a new Ajaxy comment and rating system, and today they reached another milestone.
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| Feb 9, 2008 | Mininova Launches Music Torrent Streaming | With the new music streaming feature users can listen to individual music tracks, streamed from .torrent files. It is integrated in the featured torrents section, which lists all the distributors that take part in Mininova’s content distrib... |
| Jan 14, 2008 | Mininova Celebrates Its 3rd Anniversary | There was quite a bit of news surrounding Mininova in the last year, they regained the .com domain, served billions of torrents, and launched a content distribution platform for independent publishers. Most impressive perhaps is that they a... |
| Dec 29, 2007 | Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2007 | The list is based on Alexa’s traffic rank, and this data was backed up by reports from quantified sites on quantcast and traffic reports from some of the site admins.
Here is the list, as of December 29, public BitTorrent sites only. 1. Min... |
| Nov 13, 2007 | Leading BitTorrent Admins Discuss The Future of BitTorrent | It’s hard to predict the future, especially when it comes to technology. However, that didn’t put us off and we gave it a shot. We asked the people behind the 4 largest BitTorrent sites on the Internet to tell us how they envision the futur... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | Bittorrent pirates shut down, will Joost get a boost? | Within the past week, three of the most popular sites for peer-to-peer sharing have either turned off or banned users from the United States. Most recent is Demonoid, the second most popular sharing site; it appears to have been cut off by ... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | IsoHunt Takes Down BitTorrent Trackers in the US | The IsoHunt crew released this statement today:
As of earlier today, we have disabled access from users in the US to our trackers. This goes for ALL trackers (torrentbox, podtropolis) we run. This is due to the US’s hostility towards P2P te... |
| Sep 19, 2007 | P2P sites ridicule MediaDefender takedown notices in wake of e-mail leak | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Aug 15, 2007 | Isohunt Foresees a Legal Future | In a recent article from the Brisbane Times, Gary elaborated on the future of Isohunt and P2P media distribution in general, stating:
“BitTorrent really helps make content distribution cheaper and faster. The natural progression, as we’ve s... |
| Aug 7, 2007 | uTorrent and WinZip New Targets of BitTorrent Malware | All the best BitTorrent clients (like uTorrent) are free and when you install them they don’t install extra stuff on your PC like adverts, annoying popups or spyware.
However, there are companies out there who give you ‘free’ software (like... |
| Jul 22, 2007 | Filtering Torrents: The Pirate Bay vs. Torrentspy & Isohunt | It all started when Torrentspy owner Justin launched a .torrent removal system called “FileRights” that content owners can use to take down “infringing” torrents. From now on, the FileRights system will be used on Torrentspy and Isohunt, tw... |
| Jul 9, 2007 | Mininova Enters List of 100 Most Popular Sites on the Internet | Mininova went head to head with Torrentspy for over a year but over the past few months Mininova clearly took the lead. This week they reached the same level as the popular social bookmarking website Digg.com, and their growth doesn’t seem ... |
| May 25, 2007 | New and Promising Torrent Sites | A while ago we made a list of the top 20 less known BitTorrent sites, a post that was well received. Today, we made a list of some of the new BitTorrent sites, and this time we included a short description for every site. Btswarm.org
Btswar... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | BitTorrent Most Popular in Australia | This top 10 is based on the relative Alexa rank these countries have on the 5 most visited BitTorrent sites: mininova, torrentspy, the pirate bay, isohunt and torrentz.
01.Australia
Favorite Site: Mininova
02. Romania
Favorite Site: Mininov... |
| Jan 23, 2007 | Isohunt Back Online | Initially Isohunt owner Gary Fung tried to solve the issues with his ISP, but this didn’t work out. He then decided to relocate their servers to a new ISP in Canada, so it took a while to get things up and running again.
On the positive sid... |
| Jan 17, 2007 | Isohunt and Friends Taken Down by the MPAA | February 2006 the MPAA announced lawsuits (PDF) against Torrentspy, Torrentbox and Isohunt, three of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Isohunt owner Gary later told TorrentFreak that they will not bow down to the MPAA. Isohunt hir... |
| Jan 2, 2007 | Torrentspy Most Popular BitTorrent Site of 2006 | 1. Torrentspy.com (Alexa rank: 176)
2. Mininova.org (Alexa rank: 207)
3. ThePirateBay.org (Alexa rank: 291)
All three websites continued to grow in 2006, especially in the first half of the year. The graph below shows that they all entered ... |
| Dec 25, 2006 | 2006: MPAA vs. BitTorrent Sites | MPAA sues popular BitTorrent search engines
This February the MPAA announced lawsuits (PDF) against Torrentspy, Torrentbox and Isohunt, three of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Isohunt owner Gary later told TorrentFreak that the... |
| Sep 26, 2006 | BitTorrent Sites Are Slowly Taking Over the Internet | Back in 2004, Suprnova managed to settle itself among the 1000 most visited websites on the internet. So when the site was taken offline december 19, 2004, there was a huge gap to fill. Today, 6 BitTorrent sites entered this top 1000 list, ... |
| Apr 1, 2006 | Is BitTorrent Inc. messing with the MPAA? | It’s striking because the MPAA is filing lawsuits against sites like Isohunt and Torrentspy but not against their partner BitTorrent.com. And the funny thing is, they all index the same torrents.
BitTorrent inc. did change their search engi... |
| Mar 24, 2006 | Niteshdw to settle and Isohunt to fight the MPAA | It’s almost a month after the MPAA targeted 5 of the bigger torrent sites. In the meanwhile Isohunt has been planning to fight the MPAA and is currently raising money to do so. Niteshdw on the other hand doesn’t have the money to fight and ... |
| Feb 24, 2006 | Isohunt and Torrentbox are determined to fight back | Isohunt.com states:
At this point, it is still uncertain what they are actually suing us for, considering we have a thorough copyright policy outlining our stance and takedown procedures. It is sad that despite our best efforts in helping o... |
| Dec 24, 2005 | Top 15 Torrent Sites of 2005 | Oldies
01. Torrentspy.com
Great torrent site with a lot of torrents. At the moment Torrentspy is the biggest torrent site on the web.
02. Demonoid.com
Great community based site. The biggest tracker out there after mongo56 died.
03. ThePira... |
| Pirate Video Hosting Domain of Fmovies ‘Mothership’ Makes Surprise Comeback | For years, Fmovies presented a major threat to Hollywood, one that seemed near impossible to defeat.
The site’s operators were linked to dozens of popular pirate sites, generating billions of visits annually.
While MPA’s anti-piracy flagshi... |
