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Michael Ingram LokiTorrent fed the torrent hunger of 680,000 active registered members a nd dealt with 18 million hits per day. They were the only website to st and and fight the MPAA after the pre-Christmas shutdowns. Or so the comm unity, who donated $40,000 legal aid, thought.
Torrentstop, LokiTorrent's lighter sister which is also run by Webber, di splays the same notice. Sources close to Webber have confirmed that the shutdown by the MPAA is p ermanent. No more information is availabl e at this stage due to a court gagging order. Update: LokiTorrent administrator Edward Webber has agreed to pay a subst antial fine and to provide all BitTorrent activity logs of its former us ers. This comes as a serious betrayal to those who felt that LokiTorrent intended to fight the MPAA lawsuit.
press release: The MPAA's efforts to date have resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the number of servers that continue to operate. One such site that will no longer exist is LokiTorrentone of the largest BitTorrent host servers. T he operator of that site, Edward Webber, agreed to not only pay a substa ntial settlement with even greater financial penalties for any further s uch actions, but by Court Order must provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent ac tivities, which will provide a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorre nt to engage in illegal activities. Hollywood has a record of avoiding the difficulties of proving their vict ims guilty. As a substitute, they intimidate both P2P users and leaders by making offers which can not be refused.
testing the water , saying he did not mean to cause a stir. The loss is another blow to BitTorrent, and file sharing as a whole, whic h has lost many of the main P2P websites over the last few months.
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