IsoHunt
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 isoHunt logo and screenshot of homepage
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Type of site
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Torrent index |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | isoHunt Inc. (Gary Fung) |
| Created by | Gary Fung |
| Revenue |
Online advertising Donations Paid membership |
| Website | isohunt |
| Alexa rank |
 2,881 (August 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional; mandatory for uploading |
| Launched | January 2003 |
| Current status | Online |
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Content license
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Free access |
| IP address | 104 |
| α Functional clones have been created by others | |
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Isohunt.to uses logo of original isoHunt
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Type of site
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Torrent index |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | anonymous |
| Created by | anonymous |
| Revenue |
Online advertising Donations |
| Website |
isohunt |
| Alexa rank |
 1,768 (March 2015[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional; mandatory for uploading |
| Launched | October 2013 |
| Current status | Online |
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Content license
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Free access |
| α Taken offline when The Pirate Bay came online in Jan 2015 | |
isoHunt is an online torrent files index and repository, where visitors can browse, search, download or upload torrents of various digital content of mostly entertainment nature. The current incarnation arose as a resurrection of the original site that was taken down by legal action from the MPAA; it is not associated in any way with the old staff or owners of the site, and is to be understood as a separate continuation.
It originated in 2003 as isohunt.com website for IRC files search and reached over 13.7 million torrents in its database and 20 million peers from indexed torrents. With 7.4 million unique visitors as of May 2006[update], isoHunt was one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Thousands of torrents were added to and deleted from it every day. Users of isoHunt performed over 40 million unique searches per month. On October 19, 2008, isoHunt passed the 1 petabyte mark for torrents indexed globally. The site was the third most popular BitTorrent site as of 2008[update]. According to isoHunt, the total amount of shared content was more than 14.11 petabytes as of June 13, 2012[update].
The site came to an end when the legal battles that isoHunt's founder had been in for years with conglomerates of IP rights holders over allegations of copyright infringing came to a head. A settlement with the MPAA was reached in 2013, stipulating a $110 million reimbursement for damages and the site's closure that followed on October 21, 2013.
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