If you haven't had the time to stop by and check out all of the updates I'd like to invite you to take a look at our 2010 Spring Update topic on our forums which can be found:
http://www.undergroundnews.com/forum/ubb...0Changelog.html

A lot of things have been changed, updated, and added; the short list:
* Recommended Reading - New system in place, planned to hold book recommendations and short reviews.
* Links Maintenance - now has a backend for managing site links and link data.
* File Sharing - Reworked the system to make management easier.
* Caching - Speeding up the site has been a big thing to us, items are now cached for frontend viewing.
* RSS/Javascript - All new sections have Javascript and RSS syndication options available.
* Reports - Users can now report invalid information and outdated links.

There are many, many more items that have been added; stop by and take a look!

US users, welcome to the lighter and lightning fast isoHunt! Although we bring this new search engine to you with a burden from the lawsuit brought by the MPAA, we hope you understand the reason why we are making this change. It is to address concerns Judge Wilson has over inducing copyright infringement in the US. Though inducement is never our intention and we have evidence to support it, with isoHunt Lite we want to affirm publicly that isoHunt's essential function is nothing more than a search engine and a public utility with all the net neutrality it affords and should be afforded.

Despite rumors that we are ordered to keyword filter for US, there's only a proposed order, no actual order. Freedom of speech, non-infringing use and technical implementability issues are still being debated in further court briefs. We have not done any keyword filtering and is fighting all we can not to, because we believe search terms are ambiguous by nature, and any requirement to keyword filter is a violation of freedom of speech and amounts to no less than censorship. There is much non-infringing uses of BitTorrent technology and we hope you will be able to continue to use isoHunt for these uses, free of constraints by large holes in the english dictionary because your search triggered a keyword in a title of one of the million movies that have been produced.

Why would you still use isoHunt you ask now that it's just like Google and Yahoo and you can search for torrents with those? While we won't dispute there's fundamental difference, on isoHunt Lite you get ranking by seeds/leechers and ratings besides search relevancy and age. A general search engine also do not group as one for identical torrents spread on multiple websites on the Web. Your continued use of isoHunt will also support our upcoming appeal against the MPAA, and we thank you in advance.

We protest the possibility we may be required by US law in upcoming injunction to keyword filter for US users as it is little different from censorship. The DMCA mandates with reason that copyright notice and takedown requested by copyright holders be done under penalty of perjury with accurate identifcation, with standard practice of URLs, not broad mucking with the dictionary. If you want to join us in protest, share this by tweet, facebook, etc. and write to Congress. Donation to organizations like the EFF will also help.


UPDATE: for users hating not able to sort, this is one you shouldn't care about. isoHunt Lite obviously has stripped a lot of features, sorting however uses the same "isoHunt Rank" method that's default on regular isoHunt, and is the best sorting method as it combines multiple factors, not just by seeds or leechers. Consider the better, default ranking a feature you don't get on other websites. Also note the Cached links at last lines of search results for a cached .torrent in case the original site is down or changed.