isoHunt
IsoHunt (also IsoHunt ) is the technical term for a search engine that lets you find data such as computer programs, music or movies and can download with file sharing software. Founded by Gary Fung 2003 Company isoHunt Inc. and the associated portal isohunt.com belonged to the closure of the most visited points of contact on the internet to find files that meet the BitTorrent protocol. 2013 went isohunt.com by the network after Gary Fung has been committed to a compensation of 110 million U.S. dollars for alleged copyright infringement. The case has parallels to the trial of the Swedish Pirate Bay. Following the closure of isohunt.com emerged clones of the website that look identical, also call isohunt, but wear different domain extensions.
Due to the BitTorrent principle isoHunt stores itself no content, but refers as a database index only on the supply available on millions of private computers that the desired files - provide free - or parts of it. 2006 saw isoHunt 1 million " torrents" in its database and more than 17.76 million peers in the indexed torrents. With 7.5 million visitors in May 2006, isoHunt was one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Thousands of torrents are both created every day as deleted for different reasons again. On average, made 20 million monthly searches on isohunt.com.
History
IsoHunt was founded in January 2003 by Gary Fung. Soon after its founding, he appointed SJF Vice President and author of the site. The name isoHunt derives from the concept of the ISO image, a file format that is common for the faithful Archiving CDs and DVDs to other media. " Hunt" (English) is the "hunt ".
On 16 January 2007, taken isoHunt temporarily from the network; it was stated that " lawyers of our main ISP decided to pull our plug without further explanation. " After a major hardware upgrade Fung continued with the normal operation on 22 January, but was due to multiple server changes often for short periods unreachable.
Early February 2007, moved to Canada isoHunt its server. On one side, about copyright, the operator stated that the reason for the move was the U.S. Copyright laws that protect intellectual and artistic property. Despite the claim on the copyright page, that content will be removed, if required by the rightful owner, is the process to actually achieve this, not easy to see through. isoHunt were then to Allen Parker as responsible for the removal of illegally copied works contact.
On October 18, 2013 it was announced that isoHunt stops operating. In a comparison undertook Fung to take the site from the network and the Hollywood studios to pay him accusing a total of 110 million dollars.
Terms of Use
Correspondence with the MPAA
Selected components of the e -mail traffic between isoHunt and the MPAA were published in isoHunt forum.
Legal proceedings
In February 2006 it was announced that the MPAA has taken legal action against isoHunt, TorrentBox, TorrentSpy, ed2k -it and other BitTorrent indexes and trackers on the grounds that these websites facilitate violations of copyright. Is contradicted by the fact that similar results can be obtained also by general search engines like Google. The admissibility of this action must be in accordance with U.S. copyright law controversial, especially the "safe harbor " provisions of the DMCA. On 28 February 2006, a case against Gary Fung has been refined at the District Court of Southern New York. Fung admitted understand not wanting to close voluntarily isoHunt and is opposed to the legal position of the MPAA. On 18 August 2006 Judge Stanton granted the transfer of the case from New York to California, due to challenging parties and similar cases which have been placed at the District Court of Central California already on the file.
Warnings by the DMCA
IsoHunt has in the past often yielded warnings of the DMCA and collaborated with various rights holders such as the RIAA and Microsoft. This policy in dealing with the DMCA is described in detail on a separate page on the topic.
Others
IsoHunt offered a paid membership, which allows donors to use the site ad-free. Nevertheless, a registry, unlike many similar sites, not mandatory. In similar cases, such as that of The Pirate Bay, however, users have already been identified through their charitable contributions.
IsoHunt also had a strict privacy policy.
Technical details
In early 2007 isoHunt has his server configuration restructured and newly acquired hardware for the cluster on which the web server is running. It has a total of 34 CPU cores of type AMD Opteron, 70 GB RAM and 30 disks (SATA to SCSI 15k ).