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Loki puts donations toward $1m MPAA payoff

What really happened to the ultra-popular Bit-Torrent site, LokiTorrent? A million things. Previous months before the sites shutdown, they were asking for donations to help against legal battles. They raised over $40,000 in that time.

“Muff Torrent has lost the fight for your rights to freely share on the internet,” the site says. “All donations to this point have been spent on legal fees. Any future donations will be spent paying off remaining bills.”

It’s easy to argue the use of ‘fight’ in that statement. Weber settled out of court. If you donated money to LokiTorrent, it was apparently used to craft document 3:04-CV-2642-N available in PDF format from P2Pnet here. If you traded on LokiTorrent, Muff Torrent or any other Webber owned site, you paid a lawyer to turn over your identity and evidence of your file-trading to the MPAA.

Check out the full article on this at the Register. You can also get through to another site that actually has legal documentation.

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Dell Offering GeForce 6800 Ultra in XPS Laptop

“Redefining the performance bar for gaming enthusiasts (scores of over 12,000 in 3DMark 2003) or anyone looking for the ultimate HD video notebook, the new Inspiron XPS features the latest GeForce Go 6800 Ultra with state-of-the-art technology.”

If the 12,000 3D Marks proves to be true, then that makes this an incredible notebook for gaming. Check out the page over at Nvidia to read up more on it. *drool*

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Saitek PC Gaming Keyboard @ BRnR

“Saitek, a leader in high-quality gaming peripherals, has come up with a solution that is as practical as a conventional keyboard, but also has the added flexibility of up to 27 programmable keys which should be able to handle just about any game you can think of—the Saitek PC Gaming Keyboard”

Check out the full review at Barry’s Rigs-n-Reviews.

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H.I.S. Radeon X850XT PCI-Express @ Overclocker Cafe

” Hightech Information Systems has been in the VGA market for quite some time and recently they have taken the enthusiast world by storm with some very high quality graphics cards. We have reviewed several here and have always been impressed with Hightech’s innovation, packaging and pricing strategy. Today, we get a chance to take a look at a couple of the top notch cards based on ATi’s award winning X850XT VPU. I was a bit surprised when I saw that HIS was producing not only the X850XT but one with their IceQ cooling solution.”

Check out the full review at Overclocker Cafe.

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Arctic Freezer 64 @ HWLogic

“With today’s CPUs starting to resemble easy-bake ovens rather than processors, cooling has become a key in ramping these cores up to high speeds. With some CPUs (I’m not pointing any fingers, but its name is Prescott) nearing 100W of heat output, a standard heatsink and fan is no longer an option. We have long since passed the days of being able to buy a $5 Radio Shack heatsink to cool down our brand new investments.”

Check out the full review of this “cool” product at /* */