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Warez Moving From BitTorrent to Conventional Hosting Services

Posted by timothy on from the gradual-process-gets-noticed dept.

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."

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  1. Free games? by nycguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean RapidShare has something else besides porn on it? I'm going to have to grab my other joystick!

  2. List of warez ftp sites... regularly updated by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Funny
    List of warez ftp sites... regularly updated.

    General information on accessing these sites:

    • Some sites are slow, down, whatever. Try again later.
    • These sites use advanced authentication methods, such as reverse authentication look-up to local FTP daemon. Anonymous might not allways work if the address that you're coming from doesn't look 3l33+ enough, you might have to use your own userid and password. Also, disabling or enabling a proxy might help.
    • Also, simple PC's with Wind0wz are also totally off the limits. Go to your shell account and use a real operating systems. L4m3rs without multitasking can't get in.
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    1. Re:List of warez ftp sites... regularly updated by Kjella · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sometimes the moderators have a sense of humor too, they're modding it so others will be fooled. Plus you get free karma, so no reason to complain.

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    2. Re:List of warez ftp sites... regularly updated by Ifni · · Score: 2, Funny

      They forgot one of the best:

      ftp://warez.waldo.net

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      Oh, was that my outside voice?

  3. The first rule of usenet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.

    The second rule of Usenet is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.

    1. Re:The first rule of usenet by MartinSchou · · Score: 2, Funny

      1st RULE: You do not talk about USENET.

      2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about USENET.

      3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" or throws up, passes out the post is over.

      4th RULE: Only two girls to a cup.

      5th RULE: One tubgirl at a time.

      6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes.

      7th RULE: Flame wars will go on as long as they have to.

      8th RULE: If this is your first night at USENET, you HAVE to goatse.

  4. Re:Can we stop calling it "piracy" already? by MagusSlurpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Frankly, I prefer hearing myself called a "pirate," versus a "copyright-infringing content replicator."

    Not as cool as being called a ninja, but I'll take what I can get.

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  5. Re:The future of piracy... by dangitman · · Score: 3, Funny

    In twenty years, they'll be threatening people with fifty years in the electric chair with a gerbil up their arse,

    I'd be surprised if they gave us the luxury of the gerbil. After all, if you're being fried on the electric chair, a rectally inserted rodent might offer some comfort and relief.

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  6. Artificial Poverty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > All crap, all the time. No, that isn't going to be the future of entertainment.

    I hope not! It sounds a lot more like the present than the future...

  7. Re:captain obvious by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    My mother was a crackhead, you insensitive clod.

    (I've always wanted to do one of these. I'll stop now... ..probably.)

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  8. You could not be more wrong. by bigtallmofo · · Score: 4, Funny

    BitTorrent, IRC and Usenet have been shut down for years. I dare you to try to get anything from them! It's impossible. They have been literally shut down by the MPAA and RIAA.

    We are left with one alternative: Rapidshare. Sure, it's not perfect but that's all we have after the effective campaigns of the RIAA and MPAA. Now it looks like they'll have to focus all their attention on Rapidshare. Darn. Then we will be left with nothing.

    But to reiterate, no need to focus on BitTorrent, IRC or Usenet - those are already dead. Yup. Dead and buried. Nothing to see there.

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    1. Re:You could not be more wrong. by destiny71 · · Score: 2, Funny

      ohhhhhhhhhhh sarcasm. oops

  9. Re:All things old... by Mashiki · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pft. Who uses a BBS? I'm still trading floppy disks on a non-viable format. Speaking of which I need to get going, and take these 38,000 5.25" disks to the next person.

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  10. Does not compute. by bigtallmofo · · Score: 2, Funny

    How can there be a rule about something that was destroyed years ago by the legitimate and merciful actions of the RIAA and MPAA?

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