Just to give a little background…
Lokitorrent was a reasonably good bittorrent link site, it was generally where a lot of people went post-suprnova. The owner posted a message, which at the time seemed very likely, that he was being prosecuted for distributing his content. He then proceeded to raise a hell-ov-a-lotta money for the legal defense fund.
See My Blog At That Time (ahh, the power of the blog)
Anyway, the site later went down and was replaced by a rather nasty note from the MPAA saying that had everyone's IP address and that they were gonna git u (or words to that effect). A lot of people freaked out and the world was buzzing with anti-mpaa fervor once again.
BUT…
and this is a pretty clever but…
One of the admins at earthreactor (another p2p page) did a little digging, I would assume originally to see if they were in trouble or not. He found that the Lokitorrent prosecution was an elaborate scam perpetrated by the owner of the domain, who had bagged the legal defense fund and run for the hills.
Part of me feels sorry for the people who donated, another feels contempt for the guy who took the money and ran. But the resounding feeling I have is one of awe, for someone who perpetrated an IRC-sytle scam over the web, even manipulating main-stream media…
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