P2P Sites blocking USA - Vista News Discuss P2P Sites blocking USA - in the Windows Vista forums; isoHunt Blacklisting USA users Tuesday, 25 September 2007 This is the second major torrent tracker site in the past few months to disable US users from downloading torrents with there ...

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isoHunt Blacklisting USA users
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
This is the second major torrent tracker site in the past few months to disable US users from downloading torrents with there tracker. isoHunt is probably the biggest and most widely used site of all. Now let me clarify, USA users can still use isoHunt to download torrents, what isoHunt is doing is shutting down its own trackers like TorrentBox, PodTropolis and so on. It is only the ones they physically own. Below is the post from Isohunt front page explaining the deal. Just to let you know Torrentspy was the first to do this, but they DONT let U.S IP addresses even browse their site.



As of earlier today, we have disabled access from users in the US to our trackers, until further notice. This goes for ALL trackers (torrentbox, podtropolis) we run. This is due to the US's hostility towards P2P technologies, and we feel with our current lawsuit brought by the MPAA, we can no longer ensure your security and privacy in the US. So, if you're outside the US, you may notice less peers. We encourage you to add other public, unhampered trackers to torrents you post, in addition to Torrentbox and Podtropolis's trackers.

THIS IS ONLY REGARDING TRACKERS OWNED BY ISOHUNT.COM NOT 3RD PARTY TRACKERS -- DO NOT CONTACT ME PRIVATELY ABOUT THE CHANGE IN POLICY

Update: Spike
Apparently some P2P news sites are falsely reporting that we are blocking US visitors from using the isoHunt website itself. Let me say this is NOT the case. As reported above we are blocking US visitors ONLY to the BitTorrent TRACKERS we run. This will NOT affect torrents obtained from isoHunt unless these torrents only use said trackers that are isoHunt operated.
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Every P2P program I have tried to use this evening, started yesterday is DEAD.
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