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From a legal aspect, how is this going to last at all? IANAL but I was under the impression most meta-search engines operated in at least a semi-grey area because they don't spoon feed illegal content to you. Most just index the big trackers and (conveniently) don't discriminate between illegal and legal content. I feel like when you are dropping torrents into buckets more specific than "video" and "audio" (e.g. linking multiple torrents to a specific movie, highlighting the HD versions) any conventional argument against aiding copyright infringement is out the window.

Awesome site though.



If the site operators open source the nice UI and their methods of selecting torrents from public trackers (assuming they don't hand pick each and every movie's torrents and other metadata...this is all scriptable/automatable) on Github, that's one way.


Hosted in Canada (netelligent.ca) might buy them some time...


Or create a strong enough legal precedence to help transform Canada into less of a piracy haven.


"Piracy haven"? I've read the news stories that contained those allegations about Canada and they were completely absurd.


Not at all. The same people that complained that Canadian laws are too weak to sue Canadian trackers somehow have managed to sue isoHunt.


It's a .com site. I would expect the domain to get seized by ICE in the near future.


The only way they could last is to host inside Tor or I2P. I think that'd be fine for what the site is, a bunch of links to internet-facing torrents.


Yea, usually these meta torrent sites act kind of like a massage parlor. You pay for the massage and any negotiations between you and the masseur have nothing to do with the parlor.

Hopefully some of these torrent sites can have a better UI like this place. It really has a lot of bite. I like it.




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