Warez Moving From BitTorrent to Conventional Hosting Services

ericatcw writes "Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites like RapidShare, reports Computerworld. According to anti-piracy vendor V.I. Labs, 100% of the warez in its survey were available on RapidShare, which, according to Alexa, is already one of the 20 largest sites in the world. V.I. Labs' CEO predicts file-hosting sites such as RapidShare will supplant BitTorrent, as the former appear better protected legally."

Comments

Re:Usenet anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Usenet is long dead unless you trade recipes, participate in flamewars, or spam. Rumors to the contrary occasionally arise, but if it was so great, nobody would have used:

• Napster
• Gnutella
• Limewire
• eDonkey
• BitTorrent
• dc++
• (or the other hundred or so things I forget)

q.e.d., Usenet is just a lousy message board for elitists. There is certainly nothing to see there.

Can we stop calling it "piracy" already?

[linuxhansl]

"Piracy" is a clever term coined by the music and file industry to associate file copying directly with stealing.

Existing information is replicated or copied nothing more and nothing less.
That may not be legal by current law, and there might be an "opportunity loss" for the content owner, but that is not "piracy" nor is it "stealing".

"Illegal content replication" just doesn't sound as snazzy and dirty as "piracy".

Re:Hacker's Manifesto

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like the same sort of bullshit you would find on 4chan. WE ARE ANONYMOUS WE ARE LEGION XD

Re:Sucks to be American sometimes

[PopeRatzo]

how many americans still struggle to think globally

Yeah, but you guys let all your old people die in the street without health care and everybody dies waiting in long lines to get prescriptions filled. And the government confiscates all the money you make and you don't have any freedom at all.

I know this is true because I heard that nice young man on the cable say it.

But goddamn, you're right about those US copyright laws. But it's not just the US any more because we're taking over this globe as soon as we can get the Nigerian/Indonesian fascist/communist out of the White House. And you're gonna be first, Canada. That way Sarah Palin can drive straight to Washington DC without needing a passport. Now excuse me, I have to go buy some scratch-off tickets.