IsoHunt shuts down trackers to U.S. users
Found on CNet News on Tuesday, 25 September 2007
BitTorrent search engine, IsoHunt, is cutting off access in the U.S. to software that enables users to download BitTorrent files, the technology that has become a powerful tool for illegal file sharing.
IsoHunt and TorrentSpy, which elected to shut off access to its site last month to U.S. residents, are trying to avoid a court order to turn over user information to the MPAA as part of the legal discovery process.
As for data belonging to past visitors, the sites say they have never stored data for users. In an unprecedented decision, the judge wanted TorrentSpy to begin tracking information found in computer RAM.
The **AA is effectively creating a bubble where the US is living in. For them, it might just work because it pretty close to shutting the trackers off. However, this only applies to US citiziens (those who cannot use proxies). Let's just hope Demonoid comes back to fill the gap.