[UPDATE Wednesday 11:00 am CT: This story has been edited to make clear that this new site is an unauthorized clone of the old site and does not involve any of the principals of the original isoHunt.]

Less than two weeks ago, IsoHunt, the notorious search engine site for BitTorrent files, agreed to shut down and pay $110 million in a settlement with the Motion Pictures of America Association. The site even shut down a day early as a way to avoid being part of an online archive.

But now, what appears to be a cloned version of the site (available at isohunt.to and isohunt.ee) has emerged. Whois information on both domains turns up no contact information. However, online records show that the new site is hosted in Australia.

Chip Parker, a former isoHunt admin, says that the old isoHunt is gone for good.

"Some random 3rd party ripping off isohunt.com's HTML has no bearing on the fact that both the database and the .torrent files once stored by isoHunt are gone forever," he told Ars.

On Tuesday, TorrentFreak reported on the anonymous creators of the new site.

“IsoHunt has been a great part of the torrent world for more than a decade. It’s a big loss to everyone who used it over the years. Media corporations don’t like innovation or competition, and isoHunt’s fate is one of the examples of how they deal with it,” isohunt.to’s creators told TorrentFreak.

“IsoHunt can definitely be called a file-sharing icon. People got used to it, and they don’t want to simply let it go. We want those people to feel like being at home while visiting isohunt.to. The main goal is to restore the website with torrents and provide users with the same familiar interface.”

Ars would love to speak with the creators of isohunt.to, if they're reading this.