ISO Hunt Blocks US Visitors

**dgridley** · Sep 25th, 2007, 11:10 am

BitTorrent users in the US have just lost another popular public BitTorrent tracker site with ISOHunt's recent announcement that it has decided to begin blocking access by US visitors effective immediately.

Jacqueline Chooljian, a federal judge for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, ruled back in May that TorrentSpy had to begin tracking users' activity on the site despite that fact that there was no existing mechanism to do so and that the action in itself would violate its clearly defined privacy policy.

Rather than violate user privacy, TorrentSpy decided to simply cut loose the US and leave it to its own devices. ISOHunt, faced with similar legal wranglings as TorrentSpy, decided to follow a similar path and cut loose the US as well.

ISOHunt Begins Blocking US Visitors

Keeping in mind that there are many legitimate uses for using P2P and Torrents, I find this invasion of privacy somewhat creepy.

**grim** · Sep 25th, 2007, 2:04 pm

Originally Posted by dav3.tv

Keeping in mind that there are many legitimate uses for using P2P and Torrents, I find this invasion of privacy somewhat creepy.

Just like with proxies, everyone only sees the possible bads and not the good reasons the service can and is used for.

**dgridley** · Sep 25th, 2007, 2:23 pm

I see that apparently Demonoid is down as well now. Demonoid is the #2 tracker behind PirateBay

**Rasputin89** · Sep 25th, 2007, 2:28 pm

If Hollywood started making decent movies, and stopped overpaying actors, people might be inclined to spend money on movies again...

Just a thought...

I always wait till it comes on HBO or on-demand, otherwise, unless it is something I have to see, I will not pay for the first run...

**dgridley** · Sep 27th, 2007, 12:13 am

I actually prefer to see a movie at the theater.. nothing really matches the big-screen experience of a night out on the town IMO (as long as the theater isn't TOO packed). If I like the movie, I'll buy the DVD.

Originally Posted by Rasputin89

If Hollywood started making decent movies, and stopped overpaying actors, people might be inclined to spend money on movies again...

Just a thought...

I always wait till it comes on HBO or on-demand, otherwise, unless it is something I have to see, I will not pay for the first run...