US users blacklisted from trackers -- Spam Runs

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:44 pm

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.

In unrelated news,

robbat2 wrote:

We just noticed a large spamrun that is attempting to use an IsoHunt.com email as the From address (and Return-Path). The mail claims to have want you to support a fund, and gives a domain name that is decidedly not ours (I've seen 3 different ones so far, and they keep changing it), and comes signed by "The Management".

Don't use the link! The page that loads has some very nasty popups, at least one of which has a malware payload.

We noticed it because their spam has been bouncing for the recipients that no longer exist, and I'd estimate that they sent out at least a few thousand of these.

The only real donation link for IsoHunt is the PayPal button right here on our pages. We have never emailed users asking for donations. Any email asking for donations which is not announced here first is a scam.