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Another one bites the dust

That 1 hell of an attention grabbing message. Alot of people thought the site was hacked or it's a joke.

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Originally Posted by napho

That 1 hell of an attention grabbing message. Alot of people thought the site was hacked or it's a joke.

Maybe it is a joke...

The last time i logged in, they were still asking for some money to fight the RIAA/MPAA, in fact, if you gave them 5$ you could access later torrents days instead of one day update torrent. The only site i've ever seen taken over by corporates was the Dan Winters web site. Think it's a hoax IMHO like suprnova shutting down because of supposed pressure from the RIAA/MPAA.

Not a hoax it seems:

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C|Net:

Court: Hollywood gets P2P giant's server logs

A Dallas federal court has ordered file-swapping site LokiTorrent.com to shut down and provide Hollywood lawyers with access to its full server logs, including data that could expose hundreds of thousands of people to copyright lawsuits.

The Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it had won a quick court victory against LokiTorrent, and was launching a new round of actions against other online piracy hubs. The data provided by the onetime file-swapping hub would provide "a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorrent to engage in illegal activities," the trade group said.

Hard numbers on the site's traffic are hard to come by. However, according to researchers at the Delft University of Technology, LokiTorrent was responsible for more than 800,000 downloads in the month of October alone.

MPAA executives said the information could "quite possibly" lead to lawsuits against individuals.

"This should give us information about LokiTorrent visitors who were involved in flagrant piracy of filmed entertainment," said John Malcom, director of worldwide piracy operations for the MPAA. "We are going to look at all the information...and decide what the appropriate action is to take."

Once one of the top stops for people seeking to download movies online, LokiTorrent had publicly thumbed its nose at the MPAA's recent legal assault on it and other BitTorrent-based sites. The site's operators had asked visitors to help fund its legal campaign, and said it had raised more than $30,000.

Like other big BitTorrent sites, LokiTorrent had served as a clearinghouse for links to pirated copies of movies, TV shows, software and music. The site provided access to more than 30,000 different files in October 2004.

For the last several months, the site also benefited from the disappearance of larger peers including SuprNova.org and Youceff.org.

The pressure from the MPAA is shifting use of BitTorrent, which until recently accounted for more data traffic online than any other single application, according to Net monitoring firm CacheLogic.

Traditional file-swapping services, including Morpheus, eDonkey, Shareaza and newcomer Exeem, all have built some level of BitTorrent support into their software. That could let people using the technology avoid the easily targeted Web sites like LokiTorrent.

The MPAA and other Net monitoring services have been able to trace and sue individuals using those and other networks, however.

The Hollywood trade association also said Thursday that law enforcement officials in Austria had taken criminal action against operators of online piracy sites in their country, following similar moves in Hong Kong, Finland, France and the Netherlands.

The group also filed lawsuits against four Web sites that charge visitors subscription fees in return for helping them find copies of copyrighted films. Those sites include Brandnewmovies.com, Moviepros.net, Downloadmuch.com and Downloaditall.com.

LokiTorrent operator Edward Webber did not immediately return calls for comment. Visitors to the Web site on Thursday were confronted with a warning from the MPAA.

"You can click but you can't hide," the message read. "Stealing movies leaves a trail. The only way not to get caught is to stop."

you know, if people sent a few bucks to the eff and their reps in congress we wouldn't be having these problems. with 100,000,000 file sharers we'd be the biggest lobby in the world and absolutely untouchable.

before washington took a wizz they'd nervously ask "what will the file-sharers say?"

instead we get this.

- js.

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You can click but you can't hide.

So did the court order actually say this message needed to be posted on the web site? Suprnova still kept their forums after their torrent listing was shutdown. I don't see how the MPAA's message is necessary, and I'd say that Low Kee has a case against the MPAA for squatting on his domain name. The domain is still up for sale at Sedo as it has been for a few weeks.

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A Dallas federal court has ordered file-swapping site LokiTorrent.com to shut down and provide Hollywood lawyers with access to its full server logs, including data that could expose hundreds of thousands of people to copyright lawsuits.

hundreds of thousands of people, left twisting in the wind - you'd think that LokiTorrent might have anticipated this scenario when they decided to take on the MPAA, no? maybe develop some contigency plans?

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Originally Posted by theknife

yeh - like dump the effing logs ffs.

- js.

or (like someone else mentioned on another site) perhaps those donations might be used to help pay certain fines or penalties....................

so NOT kewl.

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Originally Posted by JackSpratts

yeh - like dump the effing logs ffs.

- js.

exactly what i was thinking

According to this fresh Slyck report the LokiTorrent logs gained by MPAA are luckily rather useless for them and do not pose any big threat to previous LokiTorrent customers.

- tg :WA:

well that's a relief.

note to operators: don't log.

thank you.

- js.

I say they should have just put one sentence up there...

All your torrent are belong to us!

:D

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Originally Posted by napho

That 1 hell of an attention grabbing message. Alot of people thought the site was hacked or it's a joke.

What about this one? :to3:

- tg :uzi: