LokiTorrent has either been hacked by the MPAA, or crushed by it. After several weeks of
fighting an MPAA lawsuit while other torrent
directories meekly collapsed (including the once mighty Suprnova), it appears that Loki has fallen. Right now I don't
know whether the site's contributed legal defense fund ran out, or if some escalated tactic on the MPAA's side forced
the moment. A court order is allegedly involved, but I haven't found anything more than that. Loki's brave struggle
showed signs of buckling last month when the site domain was reportedly
placed on the market. If you go to
Lokitorrent.com, you see that the home page has been retitled "MPAA NOTICE"
and issues the following hostile and gloating notice:
"YOU CAN CLICK BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE
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."
LokiTorrent Crumbles
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. http://www.lokitorrent.com/ and http://www.torrentstop.com/ both with the same notice. Luckily Lost and Smallville are still available from btefnet.net. :-)
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by another noname
1. domain name lokitorrent registration expires 24-feb-2006 or one year from now
IP address 72.21.38.146 points to Layered Technologies. it's reasonable to assume that this is orginal server of lokitorrent (MPAA apparently uses WareNet.
i think that it is not fair to shutdown the website only because of LINKS to copyright material. but the court of course is right by definition.
it is more or less useless and only brings more attention. MPAA is a large organiztion and as any organization it should deliver some visibe resulst in the end of every month/quarter/year like so many closed web sites, so many people sued, etc.
on the other hand of the story lokitorrent and others are the only way for people in India and China (majority of the planet population) to read books and watch movies average american has access to.
i hope web site owners are well.
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by noname