Starting today, the Isohunt team will deny access to all US visitors on their TorrentBox and Podtropolis tracker. They are forced to take this action because of their involvement in a lawsuit initiated by the MPAA.
Isohunt.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines was taken offline by its ISP. The takedown is most likely related to the lawsuit initiated by the MPAA last year.
The popular Ipod torrent site Podtropolis is back. Podtropolis was forced to close its doors in July 2006, because they were unable to pay the server bills. Podtropolis asked for donations several times, but it was not enough to keep the site in the air. A couple of weeks later Gary Fung, the owner of [...]
Podtropolis, the popular “Ipod” torrent site had to close its doors a couple of weeks ago. Podtropolis had financial problems and wasn’t able to pay the bills. But it looks like things changed for the better. Gary from Isohunt.com came to the rescue…. At Podtropolis we read: Well, I just hate good community and nice [...]
Podtropoplis is the leading Ipod torrent site. Like they say “its grown from camp to village to bustling metropolis in no time”. Ipod formatted torrents are getting more and more popular every day, so there sure is a market for these content specific sites. Podtropolis is providing the service for a while now and its [...]
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