Lokitorrent up for sale?
p2pnet.net News:- US Netco SEDO is looking for offers on Lokitorrent.com, one of the sites targeted in the MPAA crush p2p, sue file sharers vendetta.
Lokitorrent has so far clocked up at least $60,000 in donations to help it fight the MPAA with, “$11,862 in legal support and $1,801 in site support so far this month”. And it’s still asking for $$$.
It doesn’t, however, say, what’ll happen to the money when (if) the site is sold.
Here’s what you see when you click More Information:
DETAILS:
Domain Name lokitorrent.com and the developed website.
DESCRIPTION:
Complete working peer-to-peer website. Includes: 680,000 registered *active* (within 6 months) members. Complete source code of www.lokitorrent.com and forums.lokitorrent.com Completely automated opt-in mailing list (daily mailings). Benefits of this site: Fully automated web resource site. Zero maintenance required. WELL known site (#1 in it’s area). Entire site came to be from word of mouth ONLY. Site is #3 on google for top10 search ‘torrent’ 1.8M page views (not including downloads) per day on main site alone. Steady stream of advertising inquiries. Complete administration control panel and moderator functions Fully automated donation system with donor-only features. Completely optimized for heavy loads. Extremely loyal user base. Mailing lists are completely opt-in, no forced mailings. All e-mails are confirmation link verified (no bogus addresses). Membership grows by 3,000 registrations DAILY.
DOMAIN STATISTICS:
Visitors to this Sedo Listing: 90
Unique Visitors to Website: 5,966,910 (sedoTracker)
Page Views: 49,870,890 (sedoTracker)
WEBSITE INFOS:
Language of content: English
Target group: File Sharing Users
Gone Fishing
That all looks pretty authentic, but Lokitorrent’s Lowkee says it’s just a fishing expedition.
As some of you may have noticed (judging by the evil messages we’ve received!), we have posted the domain lokitorrent.com up for bidding at sedo.com. NO, this does not mean we are closing our doors and packing our things! I (Lowkee) simply wanted to know what kind of bids this website gets (as people keep telling me it’s a ‘gold mine’). …That and it allows us to get free web stats (that normally cost $300/mo) by being listed on Sedo.
All I can say is WOW! We never thought so many people would be up in arms about a domain listing! Needless to say, we are not going away any time soon (not if we can help it), and you won’t be homeless and without your own place on the net.
So, please stop the evil mail, as we are not leaving you, not closing our doors, and certainly not giving out your info (some of the rumors have gotten out of hand).
All we can say is… WOW. It’s amazing how fast crazy stuff like this spreads.
Anyhow, back to normal torrent life. You can relax.
The Loki Team
(Thanks, Gale)
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See:-
targeted – MPAA sues LokiTorrent, p2pnet, December 29, 2004
680,000 – The website lokitorrent.com is for sale, SEDO, January 27, 2005
January 27th, 2005 at 3:33 pm
if it was me i would do a runner with the cash and screw everyone stupid enough to give money to them!
January 27th, 2005 at 3:43 pm
hmmm, you must work for big music….. or your a politician.
January 27th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Benefit of the doubt prevails for now…but it is definitely an eye-brow raiser….
And Lowkee is playing damage control, tell me he hadn’t thought that it may make a few people scratch their heads when they decided to do it (list the site) – especially given the slagging they sometimes take on the shoutbox re donations and where they are going….
but, like I said I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, if anything he’s only guilty of poor judgment at this time….
TT
January 27th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
I now know what it’s like to BE a politician. Every move, no matter how small, gets posted as news.
If you ran a website, wouldn’t you be curious how much it was worth?
It’s common knowledge that most people that buy websites don’t buy them to continue running them. They simply nab the mailing list, spam everyone, then make the site into one big sponsored search engine and pop-up gallery. …The exact reason selling it would mean scrapping the entire year’s worth of work I and the admin team at LokiTorrent have put into making a worthwhile community site.
If some guy offers me $75K for the domain name, he’s more than welcome to it, and I’ll simply move the site to a different domain. Selling the entire site will never happen. I have way too much of myself in that site to sell it for any price (well, 2 million could get me to part with it, lol.. but let’s live in reality).
As for the legal fund.. if I were going to run off, I would have already. That money is for the lawsuit, as stated. Only those who would run off with the money thought we would.
As for the author of this article.. get your math straight. $30K from last month and $11K from this month is $41K, not at least $60K. Granted, this is an enormous sum, and it shows exactly who those are that support p2p rights. Those who called it a scam and haven’t put a few bucks in don’t deserve the work, money and time I and the rest of the supporters of LokiTorrent and other p2p sites have put into their projects. If it were up to them, the internet would be nothing but porn spam and fake college degrees.
Lead by example. We’re fighting for your rights, the right to run our site and up until recently we have been spending our OWN money (thousands of it!) to keep LokiTorrent running for the past year. It was only recently when we began making our bills.. just in time for them to double from extra bandwidth usage.
If there were so many who jump on the ‘it’s a scam’ bandwagon every time we make a change or entertain curiousity, this website (and many other user supported sites) would never exist. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen say ‘That lawsuit is a fake, anyone can make up a bogus suit’
Yeah, tell that to the MPAA. I’d love nothing more than to make that rediculous suit vanish.
Write an article on that.
Lowkee
LokiTorrent.com
August 19th, 2006 at 5:17 am
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