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IsoHunt's trackers now blocked to US users
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 24 September, 2007
Due to their ongoing lawsuit from the MPAA, the admins at the popular torrent search engine IsoHunt will be blocking US visitors on their TorrentBox and Podtropolis trackers.
According to an IsoHunt statement,
"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 ... [ read the full article ]
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24. September 2007 @ 20:10 |
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Aw, that sucks. Now, if I can't find what I want at my main site or the demonoid backup site, then I have to use a proxy to get on this site...
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Saber9
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24. September 2007 @ 20:25 |
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weird it still works for me using the search bar plugin in firefox.
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locobrown
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24. September 2007 @ 20:28 |
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www.proxy.org
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ahiah9
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24. September 2007 @ 20:35 |
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Working for me, unproxied. Torrentbox too. Torrentspy... not so much. :D
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24. September 2007 @ 20:39 |
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Hmmmm, now that I tried going there, it works fine for searching and stuff. Didn't try downloading anything though.
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ahiah9
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24. September 2007 @ 20:43 |
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Downloading is going just fine for me at both places. Didn't get full releases, but got normal speeds on the amount I did grab.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 24. September 2007 @ 20:46
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24. September 2007 @ 20:46 |
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In all honesty I am surprised ANY public tracker made it this far!! Although I never used nor will ever use a site such as isohunt, it sucks that the US does not realize why sites such as this exist. I can pretty much guarantee if films/music/games were priced at a REASONABLE price point the vast amount of piracy that exists today would disappear. I will not condone piracy, but in my opinion the major publishers are doing all this bs to themselves by offering their work at such a high price point.
Just my 2 cents.
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ahiah9
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24. September 2007 @ 20:52 |
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I gotta agree with svtstang. I've seen the quality of some downloaded films that are terrible. If people are willing to watch THAT instead of paying the overly high prices... Well, that ought to tell ya something.
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24. September 2007 @ 21:40 |
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Simply put, who wants to pay $9 just for admission to see a movie when it is only $5 to rent it later? And if you buy it, then it only costs $20 unless it is largely overpriced. On the other hand, how many people that claim they pirate because of high prices would actually go buy the product if it was at a reasonable price?
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24. September 2007 @ 23:02 |
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The service is working fine for me... All searches, the Torrentbox tracker, isohunt releases, everything...
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nobrainer
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24. September 2007 @ 23:26 |
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easy answer, as soon as us ip's are blocked use a proxy to make it think you are not in police state america!
http://tor.eff.org/ anonymity online!
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elvisgump
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25. September 2007 @ 00:44 |
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I can search isoHunt, but the tracker status is "Failure: Unrecognized host (208.73.212.12). Please go to http://www.iPodNova.net to sign-up or login." through uTorrent.
Right now it looks like Demonoid isn't responding, though it's 3:20am CDT in the US and it may just be maintenance though uTorrent says the tracker is being "actively" refused.
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cousinkix
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25. September 2007 @ 02:18 |
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If ISO Hunt, Torrent Spy and the others want to be left alone, it's time to adopt the Sergeant Schultz attitude ("I know Nuzzing")instead of providing the ropes for their own hangings. What kind of IDIOTS even keep track of their users' IP adresses if "privacy" is really an issue. Somebody, who makes no attempts to identify who is downloading materials, is also not capable of being a ratfink either.
How ironic that the "old" BearShare P2P network is still operating on the fly even though FreePeers merged with I-Mesh and supposedly went straight. The old clients can be found at www.oldversions.com
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Creddly
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25. September 2007 @ 04:13 |
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Why do they keep trying?
Pirates will never be stopped.
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25. September 2007 @ 05:56 |
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cudnt u jus use an ip scrambler? like my ip address was somewhere in Africa...Z_Z
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25. September 2007 @ 06:32 |
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i dont think its the websites that have been blocked..but the trackers
the thing that connects you to other peers on the same torrent..
right now it seems like demonoid is "down"..grrr
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25. September 2007 @ 07:17 |
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Haha, this is one of my reasons that I love the UK.
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25. September 2007 @ 07:18 |
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This totally sucks.........Paramount had my ip provider shut my service down till i stopped sharing a particular file over the weekend. It seems they set up a fake torrent on the piratebay so be carefull. They are out to get us.
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hughjars
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25. September 2007 @ 09:06 |
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Stamp out those fake files, use sites with an established community that comments and warns users if 'the industry' start trying to spread their sh*te around.
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edsrouter
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26. September 2007 @ 00:10 |
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First IsoHunt, and now Demonoid is completely down.... Rumor has CRIA is to blame.
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26. September 2007 @ 00:59 |
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If you guys would apply yourselves there are plenty of private trackers that are better than demonoid and public that are still accepting new users.
No time for Leap frog!!!
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PCB4
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26. September 2007 @ 06:11 |
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Demonoid is definitely down. I am surprised, I thought the site was in Canada. Certainly, I am in Canada. Anyone know anything more?
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ahjukhir
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26. September 2007 @ 06:26 |
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I think demonoid is trying to move to some other country cause leaseweb, isp, has been giving BREIN, anti-piracy in netherlands all their tracker/torrent sites that they give service too, like names and addresses of owners. This really sucks,like the only good one left is TPB and they need to refine there search engine and organization cus its too messy.
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26. September 2007 @ 07:13 |
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26. September 2007 @ 14:13 |
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Originally posted by nobrainer:
easy answer, as soon as us ip's are blocked use a proxy to make it think you are not in police state america!
http://tor.eff.org/ anonymity online!
TOR isn't exactly the sort of tool you want to use for BitTorrent. It's painfully slow for a start. Any foreign proxy will probably do the trick, but it's worth noting that these too can be slow, particularly if you're on a high broadband speed (4Mbits or above). Pick a proxy from a country that has a good infrastructure (Sweden's probably a good choice with all those 100Mbit connections they've got).
If you find that once IsoHunt blocks US IPs, you are still getting connections, it's probably thanks to Decentralised Tracking (DHT) kicking in.
Originally posted by cousinkix:
How ironic that the "old" BearShare P2P network is still operating on the fly even though FreePeers merged with I-Mesh and supposedly went straight. The old clients can be found at www.oldversions.com
That one's quite simple. BearShare used the Gnutella protocol, which is now poulated mainly by Limewire clients. The best thing about decentralised P2P is that you can't shut it down (You'd have to kill every single computer on the network). Even Kazaa still has a following, thanks to old clients still being made available.
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