p2pnet.net News:- I ran a story today saying LokiTorrent was/is up for sale.

In the post, I said, “Lokitorrent has so far clocked up at least $60,000 in donations,” deriving the number from p2pnet reader Gale, who’d contacted me by email. She says she picked the item up from Zeropaid, which led her to a ComputersAndjunk.com item, which is where she found the $60,000 figure.

I had a look and indeed, “according to their [LokiTorrent's] site, they have raised over $60k“, it says.

The last time I looked personally, the defense fund had reached $36,744.

Below, in a post, Lowkee rightly takes me to task for citing $60,000 without checking it. I usually do follow that kind of thing up, but today has been, and still is, really busy with a ton of emails, stories which are stacking up and – I just didn’t get to it.

But I should have, and I apologise for not having done so.

Cheers!
Jon

Below is Lowkee’s post.

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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.

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