MPAA Gloats
Web Hosting Industry News | BitTorrent Site LokiTorrent Settles — Here’s the story of the day — follow up to story below.
To settle the lawsuit, the site’s operator Edward Webber agreed to pay a “substantial” fine and submit copies of his computer server logs and data. The records may help the trade group track down more than 750,000 registered users who visited the site and downloaded thousands of files, says John Malcolm, head of the MPAA’s antipiracy division.
The MPAA also assumed control of the LokiTorrent.com domain name, posting a disclaimer against online movie files sharing with the slogan “You can click, but you can’t hide.”
Only fools and the uninformed use public trackers. It’s a simple byproduct of the industry’s never-ending battle between their profane greed and misguided end users. When/If they ever learn to maneuver their thinking and marketing schemes and embrace downloading as new lines of revenue, I think it will slowly but surely start making a difference in how people download entertainment.
This lawsuit to me raises issues. Should parties be allowed to settle lawsuits when in doing so subject significant numbers of third parties to potential rights violations?
Many sites have privacy policies. Should “settling a lawsuit” supercede these agreements? By what right does the settling party have to voluntary take an action that voids so many agreeements.
[I am not interested in the piracy aspect of this issue, but rather the privacy implications. If Company X has agreements with Individuals 0-999999, by what right are they in a position to void agreements 0-999999 on the Individual’s behalf?]
Hey, maybe lawyers should run these illegal sites that way the visitors are protected by attorney-client priviledge.
According to computer security expert Bruce Schneier, one of the United States government’s algorithms used for digital signatures, known as SHA-1, has been broken by three researchers at Shandong University in China.
That can’t be good.
I’m so worried that some kids are swapping movies. This is such a big problem. Hey Californians, hackers penetrated a companys computer network and may have stolen credit reports, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information. SAIC got cracked too. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002178882_saic13.html
We better start getting serious about security, if we want to survive and stay free.