| Welcome AH.FM, our official sponsored Radio! | Posted by IH on Oct. 29
Directly from Dan, who runs the station over at
AH.fm
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| Dan wrote: |
Afterhours Radio is a free online radio which plays all variations of Trance music from DJ's around the world. Afterhours is a new site devoted to streaming music from DJ's and Music Producers all around the world who play Trance, Progressive, and anything that is the latest and the greatest!
Broadcast over 450 exclusive shows a month, with over 180 DJ's. If you like what you hear, all shows are available for download by torrents. |
Afterhour's torrents are indexed
right here on isoHunt, so you can download the good stuff you hear on AH.FM.
We have setup a relay for AH.FM's high quality 192kbps mp3/m3u stream on isoHunt's Canadian servers, so for you N. Americans, our donated Canadian servers should provide buffer-free streaming. If our relay doesn't get overloaded by you guys that is For others, AH.FM runs several European servers with plenty of capacity (for now that is).
I've listened to AH.FM for a few days, and their music and DJ's are top notch. Whether you are into trance or not, tune in and enjoy!
Here's a direct link to the
192kbps m3u stream.
If you don't use Winamp or iTunes, go to
AH.fm
and grab any of the compatible streams. If you like what you hear, also consider donating to AH.FM and their DJ's, they've put in a lot of money and energy into it.
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| News around Independent Music | Posted by IH on Oct. 29
First, a sharp post from the CMCC.
Musicians to Industry Groups: “Not In Our Names”
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The Canadian Music Creators Coalition (CMCC) renewed its calls for the Canadian government to ensure a made-in-Canada response to copyright reform. This call comes in the wake of the landmark judgment October 4 against Jammie Thomas, the single mother of two from Brainerd, MN who was hit with a penalty of $222,000 US for downloading 24 songs (approximately 90 minutes of music with a retail value of less than $25) and the Federal Government’s addition of “copyright reform” to its list of priorities in last week’s throne speech.
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“We think lawsuits like the one in Minnesota would be terrible for the music business in Canada. It’s shortsighted to say ‘See you in court’ one day and ‘See you at Massey Hall’ the next,” Page continued. “If record labels want to try and sue fans, we hope that they’ll have the courtesy to stop trying to do it in our names.” |
Then we have
Radiohead making estimated $6-$10 Million on name your own price album, "In Rainbows".
This I find especially interesting as it demonstrates how an open approach like the patronage model in paying Radiohead as little or as much as you like, works surprisingly well in the open system of the internet. This further popularizes this patronage model pioneered by innovative labels like
Magnatune,
and shows that when it comes to the arts, fans will pay what they will.
And I'd like to point to
efforts by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor,
in releasing his next album,
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
under similar terms as Radiohead's: pay $5 or $0 as you like for a download. Support them as their success will potentially change how musicians and other artists view distribution and selling their art on the internet.
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| Firefox takes the lead (on isoHunt) | Posted by IH on Oct. 2
Just noticed the tipping point in browser stats for visitors to isoHunt. From Google Analytics:
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Firefox
Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 45.84%
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.19%
Internet Explorer
Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 46.42%
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.07%
Opera
Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 3.89%
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 3.79%
Safari
Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 2.82%
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 2.91% |
Congrats to the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox team for pulling this off! Firefox users on isoHunt have now overtaken IE users, and I see the trend continuing in more Firefox adoption. The less reliance on standard non-compliant and malware-friendly IE, the better.
And while talking about browsers, a note for Firefox and Adblock users: I'd appreciate it if you exclude using Adblock on isoHunt and our other sites (Torrentbox, Podtropolis). We make best efforts in not showing intrusive or abusive ads, I hope you'd return similar courtesy. Our
legal costs
are mounting and we need the advertising dollars. Thanks
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| Home Improvements | Posted by IH on Sep. 30
Update on various under the hood changes (and some not so under):
- Fixed broken BBCode in
posting Releases.
Also added ed2k link parsing and stats support.
- Fixed/auto-corrects many search syntax errors
- Significant improvements to indexing and indexed torrents: Can I say anti-spam?
I welcome more
reports of "bad" torrents/trackers under this thread.
I do check this thread frequently although I may not answer, and I often kill far many more torrents that what you report based on pattern recognitions and statistical analysis I do. I won't say how/what exactly I do as that would clue spammers. Just keep the reports coming, and any patterns to spam and fakes you see.
- Many new sites added to index
- Reduced turn-around for new torrents to show up in index (you should now see no more than 2-3 hours delay for any new torrents published to show up on isoHunt)
- Improved and faster scraping of seed/leecher stats
- More speed! With site and search response time (thank SecretSquirrel and Spike for the tuneups and upgrades)
- Old update now, but in case you haven't noticed, sorting in search results now remembers your preference of which column you chose for sorting in cookie
Also, tons of inactive user accounts has been pruned. If you haven't logged in and posted in a year, or you haven't activated your account after a month since registration, your account would have been pruned. In which case you should sign up again if you like to use logged in features, such as download history and posting in forums.
And as a random thought of the day, this article studies what most of us already intuitively know: that
Fair Use makes economic sense.
So how have you exercised your Fair Use rights today? Or Fair Dealings, or whatever you call it in your country. And for you US people, check out
CCIA's website in rallying for Fair Use.
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| US users blacklisted from trackers -- Spam Runs | Posted by SecretSquirrel on Sep. 24
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. |
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