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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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  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.

  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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    My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells by the seashore.
  5. 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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    I'm a big tall mofo.