The Shrine

Here's the slashdot story: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/02/11/13 ... 95&tid=123

Here's LokiTorrent itself, now property of the MPAA:
http://www.lokitorrent.com/

Mufftorrent is down too...*cry*

I can see this precident going down as something that will bite us in the ass later on. (Hey, why not Google, FTP, IRC, etc.?) I also noticed they went the civil suit route, where the courts are a fucking joke. They wouldn't have a chance to jail the guy in a criminal court, so just fine the guy to death. Shit, if we can successful fine OJ Simpson for a crime that he wasn't convicted for in criminal court, why not?

Google is quite a bit different from a tracker site.

FTP/mIRC no one cares enough about them to sue, at least not yet.

I have a REALLY good german torrent site that I haven't been disappointed with yet. I dont have the address handy on my laptop but when I get a chance I'll post it.

Don Wang wrote:Google is quite a bit different from a tracker site.

FTP/mIRC no one cares enough about them to sue, at least not yet.

There are a couple of differences. One is that there really isn't a central place to go after IRC people. Found out one IRC channel oh well, just start another. And they MPAA probably goes after the occasional FTP site, but the distribution size just isn't there to make it a huge isue.

But more to the point, IRC and FTP aren't as brain dead simple to exploit as Bittorrent. You have to figure out channels, how login into servers, plus the software doesn't look quite like the rest of the web, etc. No big deal for us here, but for most people it's too cryptic and people are scared of what they don't understand.

But for Bittorrent the barrier for entry is super low. Just point and click and downloads of popular items rarely drag and in fact, the more popular it is, the better chances for a smoother download.

Ishamael wrote:Found out one IRC channel oh well, just start another.

Which is pretty much what happens with BTs. It's just sad that these guys get hounded over data that they don't even have on their servers. And of course, the movie industry refuses to understand that some of these people are downloading movies because apparently there's no point to seeing them on the big screen.

Hell, if they are sooo concerned about movies being "stolen" by people on the Internet, maybe they should create a market for people to download movies for a fee. Gee, I dunno, like a early release version of Video On Demand?

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that Big Business doesn't fucking react that fast. It takes them a couple decades to make a fucking business decision.