新华网10月18日电 据科技博客Gizmodo报道,经常用种子非法下载电影、电视和音乐的人会发现,他们失去了一块下载最新电影的阵地:大型BT搜索引擎IsoHunt关闭了。

IsoHunt放弃了与美国电影协会(MPAA)始于2006年的法律缠斗,将赔偿1.1亿美元并关闭网站。IT知名媒体《连线(Wired)》报道称,IsoHunt的持有人加里·丰(Gary Fung)有一周时间按照协定关闭网站。

热衷于从BT网站下载盗版音像产品的粉丝们现在的选择的确越来越少,不久以后曾一度猖獗的BT网站可能面临全体关张。

Those who routinely use torrents to illegally download their favorite movies, TV, and music will find themselves with one less website to grab the latest Homeland from. Torrent database IsoHunt is shutting down.

The site gave up its legal fight with the MPAA—which began in 2006—choosing to settle for $110 million dollars in damages and the shuttering of IsoHunt's operations. Wired reports that the site's proprietor, Gary Fung, has 7 days to shut things down in compliance with the settlement.

Options for fans of pirating via torrent site are indeed dwindling. It might not be long before the once seemingly endless flow of copyrighted content via the BitTorrent protocol is snuffed out completely by these types of lawsuits.

(原标题:BT搜索引擎IsoHunt关张)