LOkkitorrent is down

[JAgi]

Lokkitorrent is down!!!!

[Fateist]

I know... read this article on google, I read it within minutes of being posted:

http://www.newsbug.net/news/2005-02-12/h.php

http://news.google.com.au/news?hl=en&ned=au&q=lokitorrent&btnG=Search+News
With this one, it follows the whole lokitorrent ordeal.

You can't be too safe on the net anymore, I would call this worldwide harrassment but on one side they have a point about piracy, take a look at this:

http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide

Look at the Worldwide Box Office column and see how bad it is. How many LOTR copies were downloaded? I can tell you that LOTR:RotK would've gotten a LOT more than shitty Titanic and it should've. I can tell you that we will see the Titanic in first place for a long long time unless people actually start going to the movies.
I think that Bittorrent made it a lot easier for the MPAA to get at people becasue of the need to host *.torrent files on web sites. All that needs to be done is to get the trackers shut down and already the MPAA can get their vengeance. I think that they should consider making movies donwloadable via the net aa they did with music and iTunes. Anyway, any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

[KM]

look at the response on various p2p forums about lokitorrent going... then compare it to the response when suprnova shut down...

with suprnova there was "well, go to other sites" but the lokitorrent thing has left people thinking they cant do that now - mainly because they see lokitorrent was going to fight and was determined to win and lost so there's no hope... i certainly hope people start to realise that the best way to keep p2p alive is to use it as much as possible, they cant keep suing people forever!

[Fateist]

Exactly, besides that... Even if they doi get sued, there is no jail in the world that can hold all 600,000,000 or so poeple. And to make matters straight; in reality, we've been copying video casettes for years, and they never got anyone for that. We even copied movies form the local video rental store, and they never got us for that even when Blockbuster is a fully legitimate movie rental store. Its the same thing just on requires you to actually copy it onto physical media which retains the constant high quality of the DVDs and is not downgraded by compression.

Anyway, theses large companies hope to discourage internet users from downloading... right? But one prolem, American legal jurisdiction does not apply outside of America, so if there is a tracker outside of America where the law of that country doesn't state that links and checksums to files are illiegal, then a tracker ther is virtually untouchable by any legal threat Piratebay... to name one...

[KM]

i think the place you're looking for is Sealand - only problem there is that bandwidth is very expensive

officially the british and american governments recognise it as being within british jursdiction, but the rest of the world see it as a soverign state and the british government have never tried to enforce any laws there for political reasons so i dont see them trying to do that over a little copyright issue.

but the main issue is that a torrent site isn't illegal as far as anyone can tell as its not actually doing anything illegal like giving out copyrighted files, but the companies in question use stronng arm tactics to shut down the sites rather than actually getting this tested in court - they know if the issue came to court and they lost then they'd be powerless to prevent any other sites

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The creators of the BitTorrent file-swapping application will soon begin cracking down on how other software developers use the BitTorrent name, company President Ashwin Navin said Monday.http://news.com.com/BitTorrent+to+crack ... g=nefd.top