Bhav Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 (edited) Lokitorrent goes offline Lokitorrent, an extremely popular BitTorrent website, now has an MPAA message as its homepage.The site recently gathered over $40,000 as funds for fighting the court case that was brought upon them by the MPAA. They vowed to fight for the BitTorrent community. However, the site has been up and down over the last few days, and now the site reads the following: "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." What's interesting, though, is that the page is highly unprofessional. The page header reads "MPAA NOTICE", and the page itself contains a somewhat satirical 'I' rating - to represent downloading being 'Illegal' for everyone. The image is also rather ridiculous, with bold text saying: "You can click But you can't hide" - unusual, and stupid. Personally I believe this is a complete mockup. The Nikush.com Team, including myself, and many others across the BitTorrent community knew right from the start that this was a hopeless battle. All credit to them for trying...oh wait, did they even try? What happened to the $30,000 they got for the 'first' month? There were no updates on the courtcase whatsoever. It seems as if Lowkee (alias of the Lokitorrent administrator) and sold the entire BitTorrent community out, and done a runner with many peoples' hard earning money. First Sloncek, now Lowkee. This is a disgrace... Source Lokitorrent UPDATE The pornography version of Lokitorrent has a completely different message. It states that MySQL backups are being done, and it will return soon. This is unusual, as although they may not be breaking the law with the torrents that are hosted there, it was still a major asset to the main site. Once again, the message may just be an excuse, to prevent having to give away information about Lokitorrent. UPDATE #2 According to oddcrap from the Neowin.net Forums, after having spoken to Lowkee himself, the site has been taken down by a request from the judge at the trial. The images being hosted on the Lokitorrent server add to the fact that the site hasn't actually been taken over by the MPAA. So basically, they are still bull****ting us, but maybe not as we thought. Or maybe... Edited February 10, 2005 by Bhav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateoGWJ Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Not really a surprise, they will get to all of them sooner or later. I'm waiting for PirateBay to get threatened to be really worried. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ephemeral Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 :cry: No, can't be true ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Reaper Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 If he did run off with that 30k, you can bet he will appear on milk cartons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theyarecomingforyou Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 They should just remove the movies and put it back up... the MPAA can't stop people downloading pirated music or games... lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNuTs Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I still miss SuprNova They kick my while i'm down :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSoul Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 When suprnova died and lokitorrent was threatened. a little time in the middle a new thing was born, the name was mininova Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I can't believe people donated in the first place :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mx Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stezo2k Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 not already, damn oh well, kind of expected it earlier nevermind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forster Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Loki was wasting it's time, they should have just shut down and kept some self respect :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateoGWJ Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 When suprnova died and lokitorrent was threatened. a little time in the middle a new thing was born, the name was mininova 585447691[/snapback] Mininova is pretty nice..... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted February 10, 2005 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 10, 2005 nooooo!!! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Maybe that explains why the tracker on the torrent I was downloading went down :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin-ergy Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 damn. there goes torrenstop too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLegendOfMart Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Torrentstop was just another frontend for Lokitorrent for those that didnt want a portal just torrent lists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valiant Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 It was so obvious that the donation money was just a clever trick by lowkee to get a load of free money. I can't believe some people fell for it and actually donated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmh Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 i think you guys are missing osme of this. It looks like the looki didn't really get shutdown, he took donations and ran... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Warhawk Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 lord, who cares. it will share the same fate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Damn! Was on it earlier today too :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essential+ Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I knew right from the beggining that the guy wanted money coz he knew that Lokitorrent was goin bye bye. So he wanted to gather as many bucks as possible for his retreat. He's such a ****ing ###### ! I'm glad I never donated :angry: Sorry for those whop donated :( Damn I hate thieves :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hekx Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 They could have at least made the image backgrounds transparent.. with a teal blue windows background I see large white block backing on each of the site images. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddcrap Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 From what I heard from loki he said he's going to court to fight against them. He claims it will be back online soon, if they win the trial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 remembers me when isonews.com domain was taken: at firs everybody thought it was a fake, too, as the page was comparable unprofessional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theyarecomingforyou Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Wow... the site gets shut down and people immediately start accusing the guy of stealing the money. Well, that might indeed turn out to be the case, BUT it is too soon to tell and you are all talking out your behinds - no-one knows yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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