Grokster Launches Fear Campaign

An anonymous reader writes "Slyck is reporting on Grokster's new scare tactic. Suddenly it's become taboo to head over to Grokster.com. In a transparent attempt to scare potential P2P users, Grokster.com has reinforced its anti-P2P sentiment. The visitor's IP address is clearly displayed in large font on the Grokser's homepage while indicating the address was logged."

Comments

Won't you be my neighbor

[quokkapox]

That's funny, when I visited the site it displayed my neighbor's router's IP address.

Good thing he's a lawyer...

Re:Won't you be my neighbor

[Gordonjcp]

YOUR IP ADDRESS IS 62.252.128.17 AND HAS BEEN LOGGED.

Mine and most of NTL's Scottish customers. Haven't these spackers heard of transparent proxies?

Re:Won't you be my neighbor

[ArcticCelt]

I decided to access the site this way:

"http://www.grokster.com/?thanks_for_your_free_ip_ information_service_could_you_add_some_helpful_fea tures_like_trace_ping_and_dns_info_please"

Re:Won't you be my neighbor

[DrSkwid]

ntl nottm. : YOUR IP ADDRESS IS 62.254.0.30 AND HAS BEEN LOGGED.
Don't think you can't get caught. You are not anonymous.

Name: nott-cache-5.server.ntli.net
Address: 62.254.0.30

Re:Won't you be my neighbor

[AndroidCat]

Your lawyer neighbour probably leaves his wireless slightly open so that he can plausably deny that it was him that downloaded all the XXXXX slasher kitty pr0n. "My router was open, it must have been that darn quokkapox next door."

Re:Won't you be my neighbor

[Fordiman]

Why does this remind me of the cheap-ass old school javascript "You're in the wrong place and we're going to show you your own IP to scare you off" pages from forums and CMSs of old?

Stolen technology

[Spy Handler]

Grokster is unlawfully using technology from this site!

http://danasoft.com/sig

go go "Slashdot effect"

[happy*nix]

SlashDOT 'em
  Log this bucko

http://www.grokster.com/

Give'm hell boys!

Re:go go "Slashdot effect"

[killeena]

I wonder if they look at their error logs?

http://www.grokster.com/idownloadmusicillegally.ht ml

Gee!

[SmoothTom]

First thing I did when I saw this topic was to run off to Grokster.com for the first time ever to take a look... :o)

I actually hope about half the planet does. ;o)

--
Tomas

Re:Gee!

[teklob]

I love how right after the giant warning "WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU" it says "In the mean time, please visit our other sites"
In the mean time... like until I am arrested or what?

Website knows IP address. Film at 11.

[iainl]

And there was me thinking that there was no possible way for the website to know which IP was requesting page data, and so where to send it.

Shock horror...

Do as I say, just not to me

[mc6809e]

This is the same industry that sells Slap My Bitch Up and Been Caught Stealin then expects people to follow copyright law to the letter.

Hypocrites.

Re:OH NOES!

[dolphinling]

[dolphinling]$ host grokster.com
grokster.com A 67.15.22.17

They might have my IP, but I have theirs too! MUWAHAHA!!

Ooo. Very scared. Look. No. Seriously. I'm scared.

[Phariom]

I think I'll head over to their page now and start clicking the refresh button over and over. I encourage everyone else to do the same.

Re:Apparently...

[Anonymous Coward]

We traced the call... He's calling from inside your house!

Telnet is fun

[Guspaz]

They're hosted at ev1servers.net, meaning they're hosting this on a budget dedicated server.

The domain also resolves to s1.avres.net and avres.net.

They are running SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.6.1p2 on port 22.

They are running an internet-visible MySQL 3.23.58 server on port 3306.

They have port 21 (FTP) open and accepting connections, but disconnecting a second later

While SMTP (port 25) is closed, they are running an unidentified POP3 server on port 110.

They are running Apache 2.0.46. The box identifies itself as running RedHat, most likely RHEL3.

Amazing what you can find out by telnetting to a few common port numbers, no?

Re:Telnet is fun

[Anonymous Coward]

I stopped this script when the counter matched my IP address! :-)

Makes things easier for me...

[skyman8081]

grokster.com is much easier to type than whatismyip.com. A real timesaver, that is, if I hadn't already memorized it. Thanks anyway RIAA!

That's it!

[Anonymous Coward]

We're suing all of Scotland!

You can pay us in whisky.

Your fiendly RIAA lawyer.

Re:That's it!

[leuk_he]

Be afread, very afraid.

You ask for wiskey buy may end up with sheep or haggis.

    AC, with an logged ip.

In case of /.ing

[jZnat]

Coral Cache

Nice to see that they're checking the X-Forwarded-For header...

Er, I'll spoof my ip

[eericson]

Anyone else feel like firing up hping2 and hitting them with a bunch of UDP based HTTP GETs with randomly spoofed IPs?

Let them log 127.0.0.1, I'd love to see a John Doe warrant with that as it's IP.

must get new lenses

[bazorg]

I actually read evilservers.net ...

Re:Slashdot 'Em

[jZnat]

Fun way to Slashdot them:

while true ; do wget -qO /dev/null --no-cache --no-cookies http://grokster.com/ ; done

Imbiciles

[ds_job]

YOUR IP ADDRESS IS 62.254.0.48 AND HAS BEEN LOGGED.
Don't think you can't get caught. You are not anonymous.

Hmmmm. I hope that they try to 'catch' me from this IP address. Especially as it is one of the transparent proxies of my ISP which is located in a seperate city to the one I reside in. To give them a fighting chance of 'catching' me, my name is David Smith, I was born in Lancashire in the 1970's, I'm 6'0" tall, I have long dark brown hair and a beard, I'm slightly overweigh because of Christmas (yeah right) but most importantly I'm not scared of rudimentary, ill-thought-out script gimmicks from another continent.

I'll expect the black helicopters to descend on me later today then...

Re:Imbiciles

[cgenman]

I think you just described half of Slashdot.

Re:Imbiciles

[mattwarden]

"my name is David Smith, I was born in Lancashire in the 1970's, I'm 6'0" tall, I have long dark brown hair and a beard"

Bachelor #2: If you were an ice cream flavor, which would you be and why?

Re:Get a sense of proportion

[Pieroxy]

People who are knowledgeful about washing powders balk at nonsence spewed in adverts

What?? Do you mean there is no scrubbing bubbles? I just can't believe you. These tiny little guys looks soooo cute!

--
Krazy Kat

Mac address

[commodoresloat]

Do you even know what a mac address is?

Isn't it 1 Infinite Loop; Cupertino, CA 95014?

Come and get me

[TallMatthew]

I'm at 127.0.0.1 ...

Re:Come and get me

[Anonymous Coward]

Ha! Prepare to be DOS'ed into oblivi@#$%!@& [NO SIGNAL]

Correction!

[blorg]

And the other 1% is in the USA and still could not care less.

The 1% in the USA, strangely, could care less.

My turn

[future assassin]

http://www.grokster.com/?I_buy_my_cds_used_from_pa wn_shops_and_save_money_instead_of_giving_it_to_th e_rich_music_artists_my_ip_address_is_24_83_69_104

Re:My turn

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.grokster.com/?because_of_your_silly_bus iness_practices_i_no_longer_buy_new_cds_from_major _american_record_labels_instead_i_buy_secondhand_c ds_and_imports..._you_have_my_ip_address_would_you _like_my_street_address_too?_you_could_come_visit_ and_i_could_put_my_foot_up_your_ass

Washing Powders

[NSash]

Now I want to hear more about washing powders!

Re: Won't you be my neighbour

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do people in the US persist in spelling the word "neighbour" as neighbor?

Maybe we just don't want u in our neighborhood.

Re:Mashboxx

[One Childish N00b]

I love the way they have 'Designed by ElipseNetworks' at the bottom of the page, like we're supposed to bow in wonder at those 1337 designers who came up with a centred table filled with text on a white background - oooh, they have red paragraph titles, gotta employ them for our next great website design!

This post designed by One Childish n00b! For all your circa-1990's bog-standard net fare!