Now Loki Torrent has gone the way of the Nova :-(

milltown

Can't be too surprised it has happened but THIS was a bit odd looking I thought. One thing getting a site shut down but then hijacking their URL for your own purposes? I wonder was this part of a deal for leniency.

Chalk

meh, the images are hosted on his site,
no-one really knows where hes gone,
probably done a runner,
but it has been suggested that he may have to do it while the case is ongoing,
others suggested that he has already agreed to hand over all his user logs.

anyway, theres always the thing i cant mention mwahahahahahahah

aidan_walsh

Once the rights to a domain have been handed over, the new owner has every right to put whatever they like up. I recall the FBI have done the same in the past, gets the point across to anyone visiting the site.

Chalk

take away 6

Random

Gives me a 404....

He's got his 40 grand, what more does he want?

Ciaran500

AFAIK that $40k has gone towards the $1,000,000 fine he got.

aidan_walsh

ciaranfo wrote:

Gives me a 404....

He's got his 40 grand, what more does he want?

bedlam's article wrote:

By court order, LokiTorrent administrator Edward Webber has agreed to pay a substantial fine and to provide all BitTorrent activity logs of its former users.

Somehow I think most of that, if not somewhat more than it may be gone now...

Shiny

Can they catch anyone outside of the US??

ie if there are users from Europe in those logs
can anything happen to them????

LegacyUser

Ye I want to know too...em for no particular reason.

Ciaran500

The most you will get is a letter from you ISP requesting you to delete what ever file you have downloaded. Don't worry about being sued unless you got ALOT from loki.

bizmark

Damn have to find somewhere else to download enterprise from now ffs

radiospan

What about uploading? I'd imagine they'd go after the top uploaders / seeders first?

OmegaRed

What a load of C**K!

They should know better by now. Stopping loki will only cause another huge number of torrent sites to open up, then they will be shut and more will open up! And so the never ending vicious circle continues. When Napster was shut down people thought that was the end of file sharing and look where we are today.

The internet, in my opinion, is the biggest entity on earth, if you can even call it an entity! As long as people want music, movies, files or what ever, they'll get it one way or another.

All this does is giving us something to chat about till the next site opens and that’s closed down.

Small victory in an impossible war to win!
(Metal Gear Solid 2 Main Theme playing in background)

Placebo

jeez, alot of sites direct link from other sites so anything ive been downloading could be loki, but i remember u had to sign up for loki and i downloaded something ages ago.
i think they will go for top 10 seeders/leechers.
hardly gonna go get person 1092823234234 down the list.

Astro1996

Not unless you are an 83 year old dead woman or a 12 year old school girl :rolleyes:

Chalk

nobody gets what i say
661 - 6 = 655

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=655

sceptre

OmegaRed wrote:

They should know better by now. Stopping loki will only cause another huge number of torrent sites to open up, then they will be shut and more will open up! And so the never ending vicious circle continues.

Indeed but most people (and because you're probably one of those self-edumicated Internet users who reads around and spots things, you're not most people) probably only knew about the likes of suprnova, lokitorrent, youceff or demonoid. While they're making it harder for a big chunk of users to find their way to the next place they're supporting their own business (which, let's recall, they've a legal right to do). In the old days you had napster, easy to get, highly centralised, any idiot (really, any idiot) could find it, download it, install it and use it. What the RIAA have managed to do is to balkanise the downloading community into little communities. Which protects their own interests. And every time they make it harder there are a few people who drop off the radar and stop downloading or sharing. Personally I don't believe it's going to make a significant difference for a long time (not until they sort out their own businesses from a tech point of view and governments from a legal point of view (and obviously they'll stoop to beibery if needs be) but even if you were lokitorrent's top uploader, you can't blame them for trying can you? You didn't think they were going to just let it go and forget about it.

seamus

Ciaran500 wrote:

The most you will get is a letter from you ISP requesting you to delete what ever file you have downloaded. Don't worry about being sued unless you got ALOT from loki.

Remember that you only downloaded a tracker from loki.

That you downloaded a tracker doesn't prove you downloaded the file.

robbie1876

Chalk wrote:

nobody gets what i say
661 - 6 = 655

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=655

Cheers for that

Big P

I guess it's back to IRC for torrent files. Or even DC++, since that has always been up and popular. But really it's only a matter of time before everyone moves to another site. Hope its not torrent reactor, it sucks lol.

Oh and for anyone worried about downloading anything from lokitorrent you'll be happy to know there are no MPAA rights in Ireland (probably most of europe) as I remember the MPAA tried to shut down a torrent site is sweden in which they got a nice reply saying that sweden wasn't a state in america

CuLT

It's the seeders the MPAA are primarily after, though no individual has yet been prosecuted.
Fortunately, I don't download anything that the MPAA has jurisdiction over; I just have little interest in movies. No that it really matters; while there have been (interpol, afaik) joint raids on "filesharers" in Europe, these have all been major illegal operations with money in the equation.

Big P wrote:

Oh and for anyone worried about downloading anything from lokitorrent you'll be happy to know there are no MPAA rights in Ireland (probably most of europe) as I remember the MPAA tried to shut down a torrent site is sweden in which they got a nice reply saying that sweden wasn't a state in america

They are still going strong and their site contains a variety of hilarious replies to the scary emails they've received from various American companies and associations over the years.

All the sites that have thusfar been targetted by the MPAA are hosted in America. Casual downloaders are highly unlikely to be any quandry.

ThePirateBay wrote:

Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in
question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully
legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have
sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the
streets and attacking people :-(.

Ciaran500

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=665

Looks like the MPAA will get S F A from the logs