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… registered users will be relieved to hear that very little, if any, useful information will end up in the hands of the MPAA.

“They don’t have anything, they have air,” an ex-torrent site owner told Slyck. He chose to remain anonymous. For arguments sake, we will call him Paul.

Paul also ran a Torrent site based on the same scripts and source used by LokiTorrent. They conferred regularly. Referring to the website logs:

“Those access logs have no value it all. They only display whether you downloaded the .torrent file, not if you actually downloaded the content using that Torrent,” Paul explained to Slyck.

The Torrent file is merely a key; the MPAA can not prove that it was used in any locks …

… “Logs files tend to grow at a rate of 1GB per day on this kind of site. Most site owners � either disable logging or purge the logs every few days. So there’s little to no information for them,” he explained. “Perhaps Loki [Webber�s alias] even disabled his logging completely recently because of the large influx of new users.” …

… The MPAA would be able to gather more usage statistics and IP addresses by monitoring public trackers themselves. The announcement that they have acquired a roadmap to those behind file sharing appears to be nothing short of a scare tactic.

Slyck News: Loki�s Map Leads MPAA on Road to Nowhere

So, perhaps, Webber is appropriately named Loki after the Norse god of mischief, master of guile and deception …

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