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1 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:22 by Benjamin

Nice.

2 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:27 by Anonymous

man i love seeing all this stuff and i cant tell you why :P

3 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:27 by Kusi

Sure as hell looks lame :(

4 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:35 by fucops

“man i love seeing all this stuff and i cant tell you why :P”
Uh…maybe your a geek?…

5 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:36 by Benjamin

Lame? There’s some serious hardware there.

6 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:39 by Kusi

Sounds like yar gettin one hell of a boner on that one, Benjamin. :)

7 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:45 by Benjamin

I would be if it weren’t for the Mac and stupidly large monitor. The resolution probably isn’t high enough to warrant it being 30″.

8 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:50 by Anonymous

if i was into being a torrent site owner i would keep a very low profile oh well

9 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:53 by nbucking

Nice Rack! ;-)

10 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:54 by Anonymous

Interesting, thanks :)

11 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:56 by nbucking

Why would a torrent site admin need to keep a low profile? It’s not like he is running a porn site.

12 Jul 30, 2009 at 00:59 by nbucking

Heck, now if you see him in the street you can thank him for what he does.

13 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:10 by qwerty

Is isoHunt a full time occupation, or is it Gary’s hobby?

14 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:13 by mu57i11

Whats the point in saying that he has a mac pro when you don’t say the spec?

15 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:13 by Factx

sweet :)

16 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:17 by Dingo

I’d keep low profile.

17 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:21 by Anonymous

@nbucking are you serious?!? have you not heard of all the lawsuits flying left and right due to torrents? Mind you Gary doesn’t really have to keep a low profile due to the fact he is already fighting a suit himself, but still, the point is that it’s dangerous nowadays to be associated with torrenting.

18 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:33 by Ben

That dude must be like, 12 years old. I wish I was that cool when I was 12.

19 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:35 by Reasoned Mind

“it’s dangerous nowadays to be associated with torrenting.”

No it’s not. Many torrents are used for terrific, legal purposes.

20 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:42 by manky

I keep a low profile on a low profile.

21 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:47 by Anonymous

The fact that a lot of torrents are used for legal purposes doesn’t change most people’s views on torrents. Yes it’s true, but a lot of people aren’t familiar with these legal uses and will try to tear you apart for associating with a torrent database

22 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:53 by Joe

that is some serious hardware.

i wonder why gary has his servers in ontario when he lives in vancouver which has just ad many options for colocation.

@TorrentFreak – these pics are awesome, but ask some damn questions next time such as how it first started out, how much hardware, etc. Some before and now pictures would be great.

23 Jul 30, 2009 at 01:54 by Ziggles

Thanks for sharing ……..

Luv ISO ^5

24 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:01 by jebus

how old is he? i’m not trying to sound degrading, just wondering. thanks!

25 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:16 by god

I like this series of articles TF. Thanks so much for them, and the whole site.

xx

26 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:25 by Carefully Watching

Good choice selecting SuperMicro as a server. Excellent price and amazing performance and reliability. I am impressed. I been building servers for 15+ years now its good to see someone use Supermicro vs HP or Dell.

27 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:30 by Haha

Ha has a very Neat desk

28 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:31 by Reasoned Mind

@21 Anon, while what you assert may be true, torrents in and of themselves are brilliant and deserve preserving and legal utilization. By the same token, kitchen implements may be used to do harm or worse, yet we have no inherent negative connotations about kitchenware.

If a negative connote exists for torrents, it’s only because the vast majority of torrents are used to break the law and take merchandise without paying for it, and that can be justly attributed to internet pirates.

In the bigger picture, piracy online will inevitably be held responsible for all forms of DPI, monitoring, throttling and the like. In the most literal sense, pirates are trading our freedom’s online for a harddrive full of digitally stolen entertainment and that, it appears, will be piracy’s ultimate legacy. Sad.

29 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:44 by Alexey

@ben & jebus

According to this interview, Gary Fung is 26 or 27 years old now.

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=679

30 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:53 by #YLS#

I think Iz came…

31 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:57 by anonymous

I think people are right about the low profile, anyone who can get access to his datacenter could now easily identify which servers are his and do who knows what. We all know the mafiaa is capable of doing illegal acts. They don’t follow laws, they just write them.

32 Jul 30, 2009 at 02:59 by MMx

Blame Canada…

J/K

Its great to see ISOhunt still growing. From its humble edonkey days it has grown into one of the big 3(mininova,piratebay,and it)

33 Jul 30, 2009 at 03:05 by Anonymous

““it’s dangerous nowadays to be associated with torrenting.”

No it’s not. Many torrents are used for terrific, legal purposes.”

But many torrents still are used for terrific, illegal purposes.

34 Jul 30, 2009 at 03:13 by anonymous

How immature do you have to be to make fun of how old he looks? Asians age well, when he’s old he’ll still look young which is a good thing to most. Lookin good Gary!

35 Jul 30, 2009 at 03:21 by Torrentino

Cool pics, thank TF!

36 Jul 30, 2009 at 03:39 by John

lol, i use those supermicro servers :P hehhe

37 Jul 30, 2009 at 03:59 by Bryan C

Very cool, I like this behind the scenes stuff.

38 Jul 30, 2009 at 04:02 by Dave - usenet guy

He’s not 12, he must be at least 14. He’s wearing a WoW tshirt and you have to be a certain age to play that.

When I was that age I was too busy not doing homework and playing computer games to run a big site.

39 Jul 30, 2009 at 04:19 by Alex Harding

This is awesome! :P Sexy servers thar.

40 Jul 30, 2009 at 04:23 by Anonymous

The great thing is not the hardware, its the software. It takes careful configuration of good software to run a high profile site on that little hardware.

41 Jul 30, 2009 at 05:17 by techloid

Thanks for the look-behind-the-scenes. However, dark days appear to be ahead for file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent.

Talk of regulation and national security issues regarding file-sharing smacks of ignorance and mis-understand of the good (and bad) that file-sharing tech offers.

While some of us may like to download a movie, via p2p, and watch it without paying, and think nothing of it, this has had the unfortunate side-effect of a p2p witch-hunt.

http://www.techloid.com/2009/07/dangerous-times-for-file-sharing.html

42 Jul 30, 2009 at 07:03 by Anonymous

Ya someone rightly pointed out,more questions should be asked abt their initial problems and what problems they r facing plus challenges for the future

43 Jul 30, 2009 at 07:24 by Rod

Look at the dust on his monitor

44 Jul 30, 2009 at 07:30 by Sweet Jesus!

Looking at some hardware, much like what I host, and I have to ask – why this much hardware for a torrent site? Is it really warranted? Not a whole lot of CPU power, but all that space?

Damn. Seeing what, 48? drive bays, each of which can hold up to a TB of data (with an average of let’s say 500 GB) adds up to 24 TB of data.

They could be UW SCSI bays, which max out at 300 GB, which is still 16 TB of data. Is he hosting that many TORRENTS?!?! or is he seeding them, too???

45 Jul 30, 2009 at 07:38 by aman

very cool but man you should eat more u are very thin for such a good computer programmer :D

46 Jul 30, 2009 at 07:40 by haha

this Gary Fung is also notable because of his copycat iPhone apps: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/copycats-causing-problems-for-iphone-app-developers.ars

47 Jul 30, 2009 at 08:08 by Vacante in lume

Nice! http://www.vacanteinlume.com

48 Jul 30, 2009 at 08:25 by gimpbully

*mutters* if I have to deal with one more of those freakin supermicro cases…

49 Jul 30, 2009 at 08:57 by monkeybasher

Bitorrent..PIRATES! Where is all the loot. Evil EVIL people.

I’m happy that people are seeing that file sharing is a positive idea, that is promoted by everyday people like you…(yes you) and me.

50 Jul 30, 2009 at 09:55 by loko

It appears the servers are located at 151 Front, they are probably there since that facility is probably the largest telecommunications hub in Canada.

51 Jul 30, 2009 at 10:40 by jemoer

why do you only throw in a few pictures but not ask any questions?
shame

52 Jul 30, 2009 at 11:41 by Anonymous

Mac friggin sucks… it’s better than Winblows, but Linux is the way to go. Ubuntu FTW.

53 Jul 30, 2009 at 12:18 by sk

waiting for more!great idea with this “behind the scenes”

54 Jul 30, 2009 at 13:07 by Jim Buttons

Dude, Isohunt like totally ROCKS. Always has and always will!

RT
http://www.anon-web-tools.tk

55 Jul 30, 2009 at 13:40 by Wacko Jacko

so that chinese kid is Gary ? awww..

56 Jul 30, 2009 at 14:06 by Kmaid

@Torrent Freak

hxxp://anon-web-tools.tk is bad website for scamming people out of money. If you don’t believe me look up ultimate privacy on google. Curiosity got me on a previous article.

57 Jul 30, 2009 at 14:18 by Ghostofchris

Very interesting at what gear their using. Looking forward to more :D

58 Jul 30, 2009 at 14:21 by addicted

so how old is gary really?

59 Jul 30, 2009 at 14:29 by rofl

man he keeps his server rack clean.. makes our server room look like an explosion…

60 Jul 30, 2009 at 14:35 by Robbing Hood

Heh, does everyone just grab a cardboard box or whatever comes to hand to raise stuff up?

Thought it were just me.

61 Jul 30, 2009 at 14:42 by Anonymous

I like the fact there is a SONY box on top of the BitTorrent servers.

62 Jul 30, 2009 at 18:02 by no

Wait — ISOHunt? I thought they were shut down by some court order or something and went legit a couple years ago? I distinctly remember some news story about them that made me stop using them…?

63 Jul 30, 2009 at 18:41 by Gonzobot

I like how isohunt’s front page blog posts about newspaper articles tell us more about the guy than your ‘telling you about this guy’ article. What does he do for fun? Where does he hang out? Boxors or breefs? Inquiring minds want to know.

64 Jul 30, 2009 at 18:41 by Dafoo

A Mac user? Does this guy know how to use a real computer?

65 Jul 30, 2009 at 19:14 by jazzbot382

cool

66 Jul 30, 2009 at 20:11 by reis

i want all these hdd drives can u g?ve me please one line of that server :D

67 Jul 30, 2009 at 21:13 by Anonymous

I really don´t think it´s a good idea to continue this series of interviewing torrent-site admins. By posting pics and various perhaps “sensitive” information, you´re making it easier for the “wolves to catch the sheeps”.
There is a reason to why the “scene people” are keeping quiet !

68 Jul 30, 2009 at 21:44 by .neo.styles|nvDX

Personally, Im hoping for an interview with the admin of isohunt. TPB says that “we want it to be okay, so it is.” I wonder what Gary Fung will have to say.

69 Jul 30, 2009 at 21:47 by Anonymous

Kewl hardware !

70 Jul 30, 2009 at 22:51 by adrn

Excellent article, but (as others have said before) I really think you should ask better questions.

71 Jul 31, 2009 at 01:08 by deadmanamerican

pointless clicking on this non article…no questions? love the pics though and what an adorable little boy.

72 Jul 31, 2009 at 01:54 by Anonymous

How old is that asian 14? looks like he’s browsing for Tetris torrent :O

73 Jul 31, 2009 at 04:27 by Anonymous

I don’t see a Volcano on his desk! Seems to me he does not have all the proper tools of the trade!

74 Jul 31, 2009 at 05:51 by anon

Yes, more questions would be great, even warranting a follow up.
What OS is he using for those servers would be my first question.

75 Jul 31, 2009 at 15:19 by Nathan

Wow, i want a server rack like that one!

76 Jul 31, 2009 at 17:11 by PorkSpear

Nice hardware!

Pork!

77 Jul 31, 2009 at 17:32 by waleed

the hardware man it is cool
do anyone knows how much dose it cost i am planing to open a torrent site!

78 Jul 31, 2009 at 17:34 by Waleed

nice really nice hardware.
how much dose it cost you think it is, i am planing to open a torrent site.

79 Jul 31, 2009 at 22:01 by Mack Allen

Nice info, thanks

here is another very nice informational blog about iphone and technology news
http://www.techmasher.com

80 Aug 01, 2009 at 19:32 by FixerDave

“In the most literal sense, pirates are trading our freedom’s online for a harddrive full of digitally stolen entertainment and that, it appears, will be piracy’s ultimate legacy. Sad.”

Well, if you step back and take a look at the results… 1.7, what, petabytes after terabytes? And, that’s only counting the torrents indexed by one site. That’s one freaking large datastore. If you think about it, P2P and the pirates that use it have amassed the most amazing repository of culture humanity has ever seen. It makes the world’s greatest libraries seem like hotdog stands.

Sure, it’s illegal; how could it be otherwise? But, eventually, all that data will become legal, and it will all be there, well here, and there, and everywhere else. Gotta love a distributed datastore. This will be the pirates ultimate legacy, long after we’ve started laughing about those old stupid copyright laws.

P2P and this distributed datastore is right up there with Wikipedia and OSM on the Web2.0 list.

More here:
http://keliso.blogspot.com/2009/07/staggering-accomplishment-of-simple.html

81 Aug 02, 2009 at 05:22 by NJ Soft

plz add the Win AutoxP in isohunt torrent…………

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