lokitorrent

[KiwiCoromandel]

this on the lokitorrent site today.......

There are websites that provide legal downloads. This is not one of them.

This website has been permanently shut down by court order because it facilitates the illegal downloading of copyrighted motion pictures. The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity. Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft, and is not anonymous. Stealing movies leaves a trail. The only way not to get caught is to stop.

Edited February 11, 2005 by kiwibank

[Kooperman]

DL movies is a vice I never got into.....a rare display of control on my part.

[Malicious Intent]

Nasty, huh?

Lowkee has handed over all the logs for the site. For most users that is going to mean jack shit. It doesn't prove that they downloaded/uploaded anything. The ones with the biggest concern should be those who used Loki to release files. It is important to remember that even then the MPAA don't know if they were seeds, or just copied and pasted the torrent from another site.

The MPAA call the logs a roadmap to get a better idea of who is feeding the community.

Under the current system, no ones knows if an IP address on a tracker is a persistant offender, or just Mr Jones seeing what the fuss is about.

What the MPAA have now is a list of those who lead the community. Match this up with the information from trackers and the MPAA will be closing in on the ring leaders.

There are still so many issues. Dynamic IPs, proxies, etc. Also, people who uploaded lots to lokitorrent could just lay low for a while.

The average user will have nothing to worry about, except the loss of a favourite site.

[CTC Command]

DL movies is a vice I never got into.....a rare display of control on my part.

and perhaps a lack of boundless hard drive space!

[method77]

Think again

http://www.shutdownthis.com/

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

LokiTorrent MPAA takedown may have been a hoax

Avid readers of Geek.com are aware of the MPAA's recent crackdown on BitTorrent-based P2P file-sharing sites. Many sites like SuprNova.org were shut down, but one site remained: LokiTorrent.com. Vowing to fight the MPAA with its own set of lawyers--financed by donations from LokiTorrent users--LokiTorrent collected nearly US$40,000 before finally going under... or did it?

An independent investigation headed up by Earth Reactor indicates that the whole thing might actually have been a hoax from the beginning, and the owner of LokiTorrent absconded with the donations after faking an MPAA shutdown of his site. If Earth Reactor is right, LokiTorrent wasn't sued by the MPAA at all, and P2P file-sharers have been scammed out of their $40,000.

The evidence used to come to this conclusion is somewhat conjectural, but the main facts are difficult to dispute. Apparently, no lawsuit has been filed by the MPAA in court against LokiTorrent.com. The domain is still owned by Ed Webber, the owner of the site. The server is still in operation at a non-MPAA IP address. Lastly, Webber himself appears to have settled with various music and media companies outside of court before he started collecting donations.

Read entire story here.

[Malicious Intent]

Get yours news from Slyck buddy. The superior writers there don't make up crap:

LokiTorrent Consent Judgment Online

The LokitTorrent shut down has stirred up a tremendous amount of speculation regarding the events surrounding this closure. Initially, the LokiTorrent website posted a notice that it was being sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA.) Instead of folding like most other BitTorrent sites, it decided to fight back.

Over the course of December and January, LokiTorrent raised over $40,000. However, this amount of money would not be nearly enough to fight off the MPAA juggernaut, and LokiTorrent owner Ed Webber found his $40,000 evaporated on lawyer fees.

Because of the gag order imposed on Ed Webber, he was unable to defend himself from wild criticism that ensued. Some stated he simply ran off with the money, while others condemned him for giving up the server logs. Others suggested the entire event was completely manufactured.

Putting any speculation the LokiTorrent closure was somehow false, the settlement document is now available on PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records.) PACER is a service that allows public access to court documents.

The Consent Judgment and Permanent Injunction include 13 points that Ed Webber must agree to. A Consent Judgment refers to a settlement that did no hear any arguments before a court or Judge. Basically, the two sides agreed to the settlement and the Judge signed the document. The points for the settlement include:

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=686

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I have no reason to believe Slyck any more than Blabbermouth.com.

[Malicious Intent]

Well my comment was partly meant in humour.

There is natually going to be bias with me, but I think it is safe to back Slyck who links to court records and not Earth Station Lies powerhouse SharePro who claims the documents dont exist (because he checked the criminal and not civil courts).

SharePro has had a conspiracy theory for every P2P website. Remember him giving "evidence" that ZP sold IP addresses? Or how the ZP poll is designed to record incrimating evidence? Or how about his article on how Slyck was stealing credit card details as the site stores passwords in plain text? Or then there was the time that he was giving this exact same BS on how ShareReactor made a deal with the industry....

It doesn't matter that Geek.com has quoted him, every word that comes off that boy's keyboard is a lie.

[method77]

that article shows how big sites know absolutely nothing