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Grokster Launches Fear Campaign

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nothing-like-intimidating-the-huddled-masses dept.

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."

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  1. Won't you be my neighbor by quokkapox · · Score: 5, Funny
    That's funny, when I visited the site it displayed my neighbor's router's IP address.

    Good thing he's a lawyer...

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    1. Re:Won't you be my neighbor by ArcticCelt · · Score: 5, Funny
      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"

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    2. Re:Won't you be my neighbor by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

      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."

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  2. Re:OH NOES! by dolphinling · · Score: 5, Funny
    [dolphinling]$ host grokster.com
    grokster.com A 67.15.22.17

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

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  3. Re:Apparently... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Telnet is fun by Guspaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  5. That's it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're suing all of Scotland!

    You can pay us in whisky.

    Your fiendly RIAA lawyer.

  6. In case of /.ing by jZnat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Coral Cache

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

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  7. Imbiciles by ds_job · · Score: 5, Funny
    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...
  8. Re: Won't you be my neighbour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why do people in the US persist in spelling the word "neighbour" as neighbor?

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