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IRC is a far more powerful and deeper source for downloading material than all those combined. Including bit torrents. And the best part is that its been under RIAA's radar since day 1.

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And here too

Porn in other words.

Hey, hey, hey. IRC can be used for pirating too.

I'm actually kidding. IRC is used ONLY to promote mature and academic discussions regarding many lofty educational and child-safe topics.

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Available from www.packetnews.com or your favorite warez net soon.

Don't forget PacketNews.

yep and then theres http://packetnews.com/, http://torrentsearch.us/ http://isohunt.com/ httP;//yotoshi.com http://torrentsearcher.filesharingplace.com/ and many many more

Unless, of course, you are using a service like Packetnews.com.

It is peer-to-peer and egalatarian as hell, but everybody (with linux anyway) already has the software and you have to search it *by* *hand*.

Usenet can kind of be a pain to search sometimes . . .There's also probably even more viruses and false stuff on usenet than P2P networks

No need to anymore. http://www.newzbin.com/ indexes all the binaries posted to usenet. Newzbin sorts groups of headers into single posts that you can search through for free. Relatively recently .nzb files were introduced. You may take these posts on Newzbin and import all the associated headers into many usenet binary programs now with these .nzb files. No need to manually update heades and search through them. Just search newzbin, hit the button, make sure .nzb is associated with a supported program, and the your download begins.

However, for the .nzb and complete header indexing service, you must pay a small monthly fee. An experimential release of grabit, http://www.shemes.com/, however, allows you to search through recent headers posted throughout usenet and then select them for download. This latest build is avaialbe in the announcements forum.

Also, http://www.packetnews.com/, an IRC search engine, has a currently unavailable option to also search usenet. I'm not sure of the details, but it does say (soon!)

As I understand the US law, when a duality exists in some form of technology, when it has the potential for both legitamate and illegal use, as long as it can be show that the technology is at least capable of having widescale legitamate uses, it is legal. Usenet is ancient among internet standards, dating back all the way to 1979. For much of its existence it was used solely for communication; this fuction is still used to a large extent today. Even while it is being used for illegal purposes, it cannot be shut down anymore than knives and axes can be banned for their continued role in crime and murder.

The difficult/annoying part in pirating xbox games is getting a modded xbox. I, for one, just find it too much of a hassle to mod, and until I do it would be impossible for me to get free xbox games (not that I would :P).

And how often to the 'end users' need to actually crack the software? No-cd cracks, keygens, and all the other stuff are available and as easy to get as the pirated software itself. GameCopyWorld, Packetnews, Suprnova, and a couple of clients are all you need, my friend.

well cruise on over to a site like packetnews.com where hackers, crackers, and those that know the loops holes will still find ways to hit you with pop-ups.

I was surprised a couple of days ago when my Mozilla was lettn' through some pop-ups.

Yeah. It's called Packetnews or IRCSpy.

KaZaA Lite is the best to get MP3s, porn and popular software quickly.
eMule (eDonkey network) is the best to get movies, games and software reliably, as well as full albums, ebooks and porn.
What Gnutella is good for, I don't know.
Direct Connect ++ is best to get stuff if you have a very fast connection.
BitTorrent is best to get fresh movie, anime and other releases and some legit stuff like game demos.
FreeNet is not really usefull as of today.
IRC is good to get fresh movie and software releases quickly.
Usenet is good to get fresh stuff quickly if your ISP has a good newsserver or you are willing to subscribe to a paid one, but it's bad for hunting down specific stuff.

This article is the funniest thing I have read in a long time.


"This is just over a few hours and I have almost 14,000 records with a variety of different titles ranging from Daddy Day Care to Anger Management and Charlie's Angels."


What the BBC didn't mention is that she is using the newest ueber-kewl anti-piracy spider PACKETNEWS.COM

For any similar industry stoolie morons lurking here - welcome to the net. You must be new here. "Pirates" switched from BBS to FTP to HTTP to IRC to P2P. The next step will be using crypto to obtain anonynimity that WILL foil IP traces. You will have to do better than chasing down sharers with a glorified webcrawler:

inform your clients that resistance is futile and they have to change their business model to catch up with new distribution technologies that the net enables.

Nice try though, and again: welcome to the digital era.

They shoulda had a legal disclaimer like other sites that index files. Namely: "If you enter this site and are in violation of any of the listed rules then you are violating code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1995 and that means that you CANNOT threaten our ISP(s) or any person(s) or company(ies) storing the files, and cannot prosecute any person(s) affiliated with this page which includes family, friends or individuals who run or enter this web site."

Mister Brogdon, in one life you're a law abiding citizen, you read the newspaper, go to work, and even take out the garbage. In the other, you go by the slashdot alias 'brogdon', you try to steal our Products. Yess you Mister Brogdon, your precious house in Florida is no more. But we're willing to wipe the slate clean. Simply, tell us where the others are.

-Microsoft 'Agent'

And that's just DALnet.

Seems to me that the only real losers from this are the dudes who now have to add this moderation to their job description. DALnet won't miss the leechers, the leechers won't miss DALnet.