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December 31, 2004
Lokitorrent fights the MPAA
LokiTorrent, a Web site that tracks and indexes BitTorrent files, says it's setting up a legal defense fund to fight a lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The site's operators have collected $13,955 of the $30,000 needed to start defending themselves from the MPAA's lawsuit, according to a recent posting on the Web site.
The action was filed against LokiTorrent on Dec. 14. That same day, the movie industry association sent site operators a cease-and-desist order to stop them from hosting trackers that match BitTorrent users with copyrighted movies.
Lawsuits were also filed against the operators of BitTorrent trackers Centraltracker.org and Centraldownload.org.
Posted by Jon at December 31, 2004 07:34 PM