For those who don't know (or don't even have the faintest clue what I am writing about), the last great bastion of Bit Torrent tracking after the fall of suprnova.org, LokiTorrent, was shut down recently. This article speculates that the site's owner used the $40,000+ that was donated in his defense by his faithful users as a settlement with the MPAA in addition to turning over all the logs for the site. This is of course just speculation, but it would mean that individuals who could have used the money to buy copies of movies and music instead gave that money to a person who provided evidence that could be used against them by the copyright holders of these movies and music. If this is true, a new level of hell is being constructed for this person as you read.
Posted by boo at February 16, 2005 12:47 AM | TrackBack