Comments on: Plug pulled on unlimited-download site Zookz

Three days after the government of Antigua distanced itself from the site, Zookz shuts down indefinitely, and pledges to return subscription fees to users.

[adamguillette]

I downloaded 5 movies and 10 songs. Zookz DID refund my money this afternoon. Should I delete the movies and music?

By the way, MOST of the movies were high quality. However, I downloaded "Role Models" and the resolution was terrible.

[diem2009]

I used the site to down load four movies and the quality for my computer was poor but acceptable for my ipod touch which meant I was happy. The speed was good but the site only let you download one file at a time. No queuing mechanism.

I got the same email about a refund from their payment company so I should get the money back.

[Jon_Davie]

I got about 30 movies, and did get the refund. The quality was only good enough for a mobile device, and some of the movie files were simply incomplete.

[codynews]

Some flash-in-the-pan 'me too!' download site comes around with a full on warez sounding name and people actually signed up for it?

Why not just DL the songs/movies from a torrent site?

Not saying that you should DL media for free, but if you're going to sub to some fishy site you might as well.

[SonOfZeus666]

My motivation was out of spite. Read the issues on to how this came about and why the WTO ruled the way it did.

[SpyHntr]

I got 27 albums and two movies, all good quality. Bit rate for songs (the ones I checked) were 256 kb/s, which is same as what Amazon sells their MP3s at. And yes, I did get a refund, to my surprise, considering their terms were for no refunds. You did cancel, and the subscription would just close at the end of that month's cycle.
To respond to codynews's question, asking why not just DL from a torrent...? I guess because I believe most torrents disobey copyright laws. Maybe I was fooling myself, but if Zookz was legal, I wanted to believe it, but I'm no lawyer. If the "world is flat," I imagine we'll be seeing more loophole grabbers come along again.

[SonOfZeus666]

I downloaded 15 movies and over 75 songs. Purely out of spite, stupid American government ran by a bunch of corrupt JOs. Oh well can't wait till the country collapses, hopefully this epoch ends in 2012.

I got my membership fee refunded.

[marlie_hall]

The ZookZ.com website is back up. Our music and movie service is still unavailable but we are working to restore it. ZookZ has processed all customer refunds as of 07/21/09 so if you don't see the credit by 7/24/09 please contact [e-mail]. We encourage you to check www.zookz.com or visit us on twitter @zookz or Facebook for continued updates.

Marlie Hall
Director of Corporate Communications
ZookZ