I feel a need to point this out.
For those of you who don't already know, bittorrent site LokiTorrent has been forced to withdraw by the MPAA. And apparently there is some suspicion that the maintainer of the site scammed users out of a bunch of money that was supposed to be for legal fees.
Here's the slashdot article:
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/24/1912208.shtml?tid=95
But then, read these:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140538&cid=11771713 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140538&cid=11772597
And check out what the site looks like now:
http://lokitorrent.com/
Notice how it's awfully pro-MPAA. As if the site owner made a point of putting up exactly what the MPAA wanted. Why not just a page saying "this site has been withdrawn due to action by the MPAA"?
it all seems to work out very nicely for the MPAA. discredits the p2p community by portraying a guy that stoll $30k from them, and scares the crap out of them (apperently they got logs, so they know who used lokitorrent). The propanda on the web site is the cherry on top.
Mick.
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