isoHunt.com breathes its last

[Deleted User]

How can you go with --removed--?
It provides the shittest quality out there.
High quality video in a small file size? What's missing? I'll tell ya, decent audio! The audio is just horrible, camcorder audio is better...

I've yet to have a problem with it, I plug my tablet into tv via hdmi and it looks and sounds fine, I've only had problems with 2 movies (which was my fault for choosing bad rips).

 

[FAST6191]

usenet is still here and it always will be they can NEVER shut that down

Maybe, however giganews at least (probably still the premier service) is taking a pounding of late (TV shows, films, games and not just the long standing HBO stuff), many of the indexers are not doing much better either. I do not know what goes with astraweb though.

 

[DinohScene]

And there goes another tracker which has potentially rare software.
Lost forever....

 

[raulpica]

And there goes another tracker which has potentially rare software.
Lost forever....

Potentially rare software... which had 0 seeders.

Been there, done that.

 

[Cyan]

I never used that website, didn't even know it. I don't crawl internet to find every existing releases. I don't miss gaming torrent websites (I would miss torrents only for anime).

Maybe, however giganews at least (probably still the premier service) is taking a pounding of late (TV shows, films, games and not just the long standing HBO stuff), many of the indexers are not doing much better either. I do not know what goes with astraweb though.

All three main servers (Astraweb, giganews and usenetserver) comply with DMCA and remove files when they are uploaded (usually based on filters) and before they get the chance to propagate to other servers.

Newsgroup can't be shutdown but it became harder to find something.
For two years, search engines and indexing websites are harder to use now. They filter your own search string, remove many files before indexing, not even mentioning fake uploads which are more common now. (why do people bother making bad uploads? what do they earn?). You need to retrieve headers with a news reader.
Uploaders now rename the known filtered filenames (mostly for TV shows) and upload them on unusual/different groups, files still end deleted too but more later and they can be found if you follow the group daily and know where to look. There are always hints.

 

[Bladexdsl]

I do not know what goes with astraweb though.

that's what i use and it's all fine. as for search engines etc being harder to use that's nonsense gotta know where to look. try OZ(name of the usenet file)

it's the one i use it's free and it's as good as the old UseNeXT

 

[FAST6191]

Oh yeah I cottoned onto the obfuscated names thing early on (though for a time it was more of a curiosity for me), spread out onto other groups and spread out onto other indexers and I am not sure about at the at upload stuff (you often have a solid 15 hours even on the popular groups).

On fake uploads. There was the passworded phase but thankfully that died down.

Grabbing headers... I should still have readers that can do it installed. I guess indexers were to usenet what non private torrents are to that world.

I wonder if we have just discovered the next boom in piracy methods ("file lockers/free hosting" -> napster -> old school p2p (Gnutella2/ -> torrent style p2p -> "file lockers" -> hardened/dark cloud usenet). It would fit in my distributed but dedicated, parity using, non uniform access method, partially homogenised (could pull from various sources) piracy and a bit more method that I keep kicking around in my head too, though I suppose in a sense that was kind of what edonkey was, what a lot of IRC dealt in. If I could be bothered to deal with web stuff I would not mind a spell as MPAA/RIAA villain of the week.

 

[Cyan]

I'm pretty sure the problem I described is common to all servers and search engine as even the posters changed their method of upload. (I'm talking about TVshows)
You can't search using filenames and they don't use filenames anymore (only release number, and without a database it's harder to find what you are looking for without trying each of them randomly).
Maybe your search engine also search inside nfo and srr? that would fix the problem.

But for games, it's still using filenames and websites with release nfo are still great.

 

[The Catboy]

I honestly thought that site was dead years ago

 

[Foxi4]

What a shame, isoHunt was where I was getting all my retro games in torrent form. Oh well, there are alternatives.

 

[Thomas83Lin]

Shame, I wonder how long PBay will last. that's what I'm using now

 

[PolloDiablo]

I miss Underground Gamer

 

[MegaBassBX]

RIP to one of the titans, although it was a shitty web site

 

[drfsupercenter]

Oh wow, I saw the post in which the admin was done with IsoHunt, but I had just assumed he was stopping work on it and leaving the site running.

I hardly use torrents anymore but I always used IsoHunt when I did. So... any good alternatives out there? ThePirateBay has too much fake crap.

 

[TwilightWarrior]

I did use iso hunt sometime but only whenever The PB was temporally down

Oh wow, I saw the post in which the admin was done with IsoHunt, but I had just assumed he was stopping work on it and leaving the site running.

I hardly use torrents anymore but I always used IsoHunt when I did. So... any good alternatives out there? ThePirateBay has too much fake crap.

Barely. Just look at the seeder and comments. But mainly, check if the uploader has a skull beside there name.

 

[drfsupercenter]

Well, I just remember there were loads of uploads looking like Hollywood movies but that were just stupid viruses and crap. And you'd get like 15 copies of the same file which just flood the list when searching.

Or maybe I'm mixing up IsoHunt and TPB. Not really even sure since like I said I hardly use torrents these days.

 

[Bladexdsl]

I'm pretty sure the problem I described is common to all servers and search engine as even the posters changed their method of upload. (I'm talking about TVshows)
You can't search using filenames and they don't use filenames anymore .

the one i use doesn't do that they have full names and can even download stuff from a year ago.

 

[Ethevion]

If I still used torrents, I might've cared. Warez sites ftw!

 

[Cyan]

the one i use doesn't do that they have full names and can even download stuff from a year ago.

Then you are not looking for the same files than me.
You can find the filenames in a search engine/indexing website, but they are fake files, rar in rar, etc. (and not on any server anymore. I tried usenetserver and giganews, I don't know about astraweb but comments shows that even astraweb delete files).

 

[Joe88]

well thats it

Initiating Self Destruct

This is it. We are shutting down isoHunt services a little early. I'm told there was this Internet archival team that wants to make historical copy of our .torrent files, I'm honoured that people thinks our site is worthy of historical preservation, but the truth is about 95% of those .torrent files can be found off Google regardless and mostly have been indexed from other BitTorrent sites in the first place. So I might as well do a proper send-off to you dear isoHunt users, before final shutdown sequence on Tuesday. It's been an adventure in the last 10.5 years working on isoHunt, a privilege working with some of the smartest guys I've worked with, and my life won't be the same without it. For what I'm working on next, please look up my blog on Google and follow me there. Because as the Terminator would say with a German accent,

I'll be backkk.​

-Gary Fung