LokiTorrent
Owner | Edward Webber |
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Created by | Edward Webber |
Launched | 24 February 2004 |
Current status | Offline |
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LokiTorrent was a
In the beginning, LokiTorrent had been one of the least trafficked torrent sites, with operations like
Webber began a drive to raise money to fight the MPAA in court, and over a couple of months, had accrued in excess of $40,000 in sheer member donations. The site peaked at 680,000 active registered members, and dealt with 1.8 million hits per day.
Attempt to sell domain
The domain for LokiTorrent was discovered for sale on US Netco
Shutdown
On 10 February 2005, LokiTorrent shut down[8] after an extended outage.[9] This move coincided with the MPAA's second round of lawsuits against BitTorrent and eDonkey hub operators. The content of the LokiTorrent website was replaced with the splash screen signature of the MPAA's anti-piracy campaign, reading "You can click, but you can't hide."[10]
Questions as to legitimacy
The news of the shutdown was quick to explode on forums like
A couple of weeks after the shutdown, news hit that the MPAA lawsuit was not a hoax after all,
See also
References
- ^ Date based on information from the WHOIS record available at http://whois.domaintools.com/LokiTorrent.com as of 12 August 2006.
- ^ LokiTorrent fights MPAA legal attack
- ^ MPAA targets core BitTorrent, eDonkey users
- ^ BitTorrent file-swapping networks face crisis
- ^ 'Brave' BitTorrent hub coyly looks for suitors
- ^ LokiTorrent.com for sale at Sedo
- ^ lokitorrent.com 2005-02-09 archive archive.org copy from 2005-02-09
- ^ MPAA closes Loki
- ^ Extended Outage for Torrent Hub LokiTorrent
- ^ MPAA NOTICE archive.org copy of www.lokitorrent.com from 2005-02-10
- ^ MPAA shuts down Lokitorrent, obtains server logs Archived 2006-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Court: Hollywood gets P2P giant's server logs
- ^ LokiTorrent Fraud claims circulating
- ^ LokiTorrent lawsuit was NO Hoax