No easy way out for NiteShdw

Written by Ernesto on March 25, 2006

Two days ago we reported that NiteShdw, one of the MPAA’s latest targets, was planning to settle the case without too much damage. However, the MPAA is not willing yo cooperate and demands at least $10.000 from the owner of the relatively small BitTorrent site.
NiteShdw’s admin says:
Ongoing discussions with the MPAA’s lawyers are not going [...]

NiteShdw’s admin says:

Ongoing discussions with the MPAA’s lawyers are not going well. They are demanding a monetary settlement of at least $10,000, which amounts to nearly a half year of income.

In addition, a clause in the proposed settlement takes away my right to ask for donations to pay for a defense or settlement fund. Under the proposed agreement, any donations I receive through NiteShdw.com would be confiscated by the MPAA and would not be applied to the total monetary damages I would owe.

The only way I could comply with such a settlement would be to stop eating, or maybe sell my daughter to the highest bidder (and that’s not going to happen).

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7 Responses (Add yours)

1 Mar 26, 2006 at 21:34 by Hawkeye

Tell them all to go to hell.

2 Mar 27, 2006 at 00:31 by maxwell

yeah, straight to hell don’t delay

3 Mar 29, 2006 at 00:52 by vido83

NITESHDW thanks 4 all excellent downloads. I really appreciate your effort 2 give us the best sci-fi series ever. I wish you best of luck! Vido from Slovenia

ps; MPAA SUX @SS!!!!!!!

4 May 08, 2006 at 18:06 by Kiden

you know, i have read the original mpaa statement online, and niteshdw was NOT named in it. it named http://www.niteshadow.com or something like that, and when i looked that site up, i found a webpage that was under construction and looked like it had been abandoned.

5 May 08, 2006 at 22:07 by Ernesto

The MPAA made a typo, it was NiteShdw

6 Jun 21, 2007 at 04:45 by qacmvtasww

Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! jkmjuilmfortap

7 Feb 29, 2008 at 02:05 by XahXhaX

I wonder how they even found Niteshdw of all the release groups out there, most of those smaller parties never get bludgeoned. Maybe this is a good lesson in why you _shouldn’t_ brand your movie and episode rips, when you add the name and url to every single avi then of course that makes you an easy target.

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