IsoHunt to Shut Down as Part of Settlement With Studios

IsoHunt has been largely irrelevant in the US for the last several years since they started filtering US IPs[1] and even before then was a pretty poor selection of torrents with many displaying completely incorrect swarm data.<p>While I&#x27;m not personally bothered by this (from the point of view of someone who used IsoHunt) I do find this settlement quite annoying and Dodd to be completely abysmal as a person.<p>_____________<p>[1] <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-redirects-us-visitors-to-lite-version-100406/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;isohunt-redirects-us-visitors-to-lit...</a>

What&#x27;s stunning to me is the $110 million dollar judgment. Did the site really make that much money, or is this a decision designed to condemn the founder to a lifetime of poverty?

Oh no! What is 2004 me going to do to find torrents now?

MPAA doesn&#x27;t get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy.<p>This is how you do it:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc</a>

Gary Fung&#x27;s not a US citizen AFAIK. What leverage do they have to force him to pay?

Why do they even try? It takes an hour to change the logo and host it somewhere else.

Wow, it&#x27;s like the anti-acquisition.

More info can be found in the MPAA press release: <a href="http://mpaa.org/resources/52c16680-37ab-4f0a-9756-b850fe37ca1c.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mpaa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;52c16680-37ab-4f0a-9756-b850fe37ca...</a><p>The shut down date os Oct 23, 2013 (in a week from now).

What is everybody using for piracy these days?