Demonoid Domain Names Up For Grabs

sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 00:52 · Score: 0

one of the best torrent sites go down with not more than a whimper

Re:sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 02:18 · Score: 5, Interesting

Nice segue into your own, personal gripe-session.
Bottom line is that the methods employed to bring Demonoid down were underhanded at best; potentially illegal at worst. DDoS attack that everyone knows was state-sponsored; inter-governmental collusion to smear, raid, confiscate, and transport data; questionable legal justification for property seizure; no charges filed and no avenue for appeal; etc. The most powerful government in the world just strong-armed a former Soviet republic into bending and/or breaking local and international laws at the behest of a conglomerate of private interests... but you're okay with that because the victim was turning a blind eye to Bad Things (TM).
You're a terrible person.
Re:sad to see by Shagg · 2012-08-13 03:24 · Score: 2

If you find that a file share site, it being widely used for piracy, then we should be good citizens and try to get them to stop.
Who is "them"? The individual users who are using a filesharing site to distribute stuff that they don't have rights to? Or do you hold the site responsible for what their users are doing? Did the site respond to DMCA requests?

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Re:sad to see by Noitatsidem · 2012-08-13 04:01 · Score: 5, Insightful

You've got the order wrong, there will be a lot less pirating when companies realize that DRM is what's killing their sales. DRM only hurts the people who buy the software, not the people who pirate it. Really, it's the pirates that are getting superior software (due to removed DRM), and they're getting it for free. There's no way you can logically argue that you can put an end to DRM by eliminating piracy. If you eliminate DRM though, it's much easier to end piracy.
DRM doesn't protect companies from pirates (and companies who believe it does are idiotic), no matter how good of a system they come up with eventually there will be a way to bypass it. The reality of the situation is that developing DRM is a complete waste of resources, because people will get past it - so the cost of developing DRM really just cuts into their profits more.
tl;dr: You have it backwards, end DRM to (help) stop Piracy. Also DRM is idiotic in general.

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Re:sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 05:28 · Score: 0

I can't believe this isn't modded troll. Supporting draconian DRM, using inflammatory wording... I don't believe that this person is serious.
Re:sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 05:42 · Score: 0

>You're a terrible person.
Here here! I will keep on pirating because IMHO it's my free right, just like you said.
Re:sad to see by evilRhino · 2012-08-13 06:36 · Score: 2

Piracy thrives due to high prices. Monopolies through copyrights, patents, and trademarks have been driving the inflation of IP costs to exorbitant levels. You can present iTunes and allOfMP3 as examples of lower cost alternatives to piracy increasing legal downloading (although in the latter's case it was too low to continue).
Re:sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 07:02 · Score: 0, Insightful

It's more nuanced than that; It depends on the software.
Software like Photoshop, Reason, and Cubase to name a few don't get much benefit from DRM - and the reason for that is that the software is rarely upgraded. By the time people come around for an upgrade cycle, sometimes 6 months after the release of the new version, the DRM's already been cracked (because pirates like to boast they're on the latest and greatest).

DRM doesn't protect companies from pirates (and companies who believe it does are idiotic), no matter how good of a system they come up with eventually there will be a way to bypass it.
Eventually is the key word there.
Basically, think about what kind of software you're looking at before making blanket statements. DRM is sometimes useless; especially on more expensive software on a slow update cycle. But it has value to companies where their catalogue 'refreshes' quickly; they don't care if it's broken 2 months down the line as long as it works for those first few weeks where the hype is high.
Secondly, there's a lot of paying gamers who would argue that it's them getting the superior product; look around at the number of people who sing the praises of Steam. Yes, it's DRM, but it's also a free online backup facility for their titles and allows them to sync their saves between multiple machines. Pirate copies don't do either.
In other words, it's DRM that adds value to the product rather than taking it away. If more companies learned that lesson, there'd be a lot less piracy around; DRM systems that remove value (such as the 'always online' systems that Ubisoft and Blizzard like so much) tend to drive people to piracy for the reasons you've outlined.
Re:sad to see by SoTerrified · 2012-08-13 07:56 · Score: 2

You missed the point. You are applauding "The ends justify the means", Either you have the intellectual capacity to see why that's bad... "It doesn't matter if my explosives kill many innocents as long as I get one enemy" ...Or you are a moron. If we start thinking the same way as the terrorists, we might as well surrender to them now.
Re:sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 09:55 · Score: 0

i'll stop pirating when adobe starts selling the older versions for far less than the current. cs6 is out, therefore cs4 should be sold for $100 or less (any sale would make up for any piracy, and they could even release it as support-free, so they'd really lose no money). it's a consumers market, but they won't let it happen. microsoft vista and xp should be damn near free by now. why aren't older versions cheap like this? software prices should drop as drastically over time, as the hardware of that time does. fix this, and maybe they'll make up some of that 'lost revenue'.
Re:sad to see by Kalriath · 2012-08-13 11:54 · Score: 1

Don't companies like Adobe always release their software support-free? I've never seen a support line for Adobe, and even if there was one I'm sure they'd make it a 900 number.

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Re:sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:57 · Score: 0

In other words, it's DRM that adds value to the product rather than taking it away.
That is incorrect.
You're talking about Steam which incorporates DRM and has other services/features. These features are completely separate to the mode of protection Steam employs.
Re:sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:43 · Score: 0

Even the military have a concept called proportional response.
Re:sad to see by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-14 15:03 · Score: 0

I disagree, pirating was rampant long before DRM existed, secondly people mass downloaded things like the humble indie bundle that could literally be purchased for 1 cent without any DRM.

Government & Stealth Malware by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 00:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Nobody Seems To Notice and Nobody Seems To Care - Government & Stealth Malware

In Response To Slashdot Article: Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms 87

How many rootkits does the US[2] use officially or unofficially?

How much of the free but proprietary software in the US spies on you?

Which software would that be?

Visit any of the top freeware sites in the US, count the number of thousands or millions of downloads of free but proprietary software, much of it works, again on a proprietary Operating System, with files stored or in transit.

How many free but proprietary programs have you downloaded and scanned entire hard drives, flash drives, and other media? Do you realize you are giving these types of proprietary programs complete access to all of your computer's files on the basis of faith alone?

If you are an atheist, the comparison is that you believe in code you cannot see to detect and contain malware on the basis of faith! So you do believe in something invisible to you, don't you?

I'm now going to touch on a subject most anti-malware, commercial or free, developers will DELETE on most of their forums or mailing lists:

APT malware infecting and remaining in BIOS, on PCI and AGP devices, in firmware, your router (many routers are forced to place backdoors in their firmware for their government) your NIC, and many other devices.

Where are the commercial or free anti-malware organizations and individual's products which hash and compare in the cloud and scan for malware for these vectors? If you post on mailing lists or forums of most anti-malware organizations about this threat, one of the following actions will apply: your post will be deleted and/or moved to a hard to find or 'deleted/junk posts' forum section, someone or a team of individuals will mock you in various forms 'tin foil hat', 'conspiracy nut', and my favorite, 'where is the proof of these infections?' One only needs to search Google for these threats and they will open your malware world view to a much larger arena of malware on devices not scanned/supported by the scanners from these freeware sites. This point assumed you're using the proprietary Microsoft Windows OS. Now, let's move on to Linux.

The rootkit scanners for Linux are few and poor. If you're lucky, you'll know how to use chkrootkit (but you can use strings and other tools for analysis) and show the strings of binaries on your installation, but the results are dependent on your capability of deciphering the output and performing further analysis with various tools or in an environment such as Remnux Linux. None of these free scanners scan the earlier mentioned areas of your PC, either! Nor do they detect many of the hundreds of trojans and rootkits easily available on popular websites and the dark/deep web.

Compromised defenders of Linux will look down their nose at you (unless they are into reverse engineering malware/bad binaries, Google for this and Linux and begin a valuable education!) and respond with a similar tone, if they don't call you a noob or point to verifying/downloading packages in a signed repo/original/secure source or checking hashes, they will jump to conspiracy type labels, ignore you, lock and/or shuffle the thread, or otherwise lead you astray from learning how to examine bad binaries. The world of Linux is funny in this way, and I've been a part of it for many years. The majority of Linux users, like the Windows users, will go out of their way to lead you and say anything other than pointing you to information readily available on detailed binary file analysis.

Don't let them get you down, the information is plenty and out there, some from some well known publishers of Linux/Unix books. Search, learn, and share the information on detecting and picking through bad binaries. But this still will not touch the void of the APT malware described above which will survive any wipe of r/w media. I'm convinced, on both *nix and Windows, these pieces of APT malware

Re:Government & Stealth Malware by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 00:55 · Score: 0

I'm sure you wrote this just now.
Re:Government & Stealth Malware by kelemvor4 · 2012-08-13 01:17 · Score: 0

tl; dr.
Re:Government & Stealth Malware by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:49 · Score: 0

cool story bro

geez, this Slashvertisement isn't even disguised by Trepidity · 2012-08-13 00:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

Come on, this part of the summary sounds like something I'd expect to find in email or blog-comment spam:

The time is ripe as of now for the sale of the domain names as it has caught the attention of many on and off the web. The traffic that Demonoid used to attract was huge and internet marketers would definitely want to bank on this.

These kinds of stories are often intended as marketing disguised as news stories (news is 'domain for sale', real purpose is to advertise 'domain for sale'), but usually it's not this blatant!

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Shame.. by gallondr00nk · 2012-08-13 00:59 · Score: 2, Informative

Demonoid was a decent site.

The Sedo link returns a 404, so much for that submission.

Re:Shame.. by alphatel · 2012-08-13 02:23 · Score: 2

Demonoid was a decent site.
The Sedo link returns a 404, so much for that submission.
http://sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=demonoid.com&trackingRequestId=30649076&tracked=&fromExactMatch=1&partnerid=57405&language=us

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Re:Shame.. by Kalriath · 2012-08-13 11:58 · Score: 1

Quit linking to those scummy assholes will you? Sedo is a goddamn plague on the web.

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Textbooks by cffrost · 2012-08-13 01:08 · Score: 2, Interesting

This is very disappointing. Demonoid had the largest selection of textbooks that I was aware of. Does anyone know another good source with a comparable or next-best selection of textbooks?

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Re:Textbooks by demonlapin · 2012-08-13 01:28 · Score: 1

Or just about anything else that was more serious than the typical Pirate Bay fare. Where are you guys going? I've been resorting to eMule.
Re:Textbooks by h4rr4r · 2012-08-13 01:29 · Score: 5, Funny

I would highly suggest the university library. You will have to leave your chair though.
Re:Textbooks by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Yes "textbooks".
You can find lots of "textbooks" at TorrentReactor. Often you'll find screeners of the latest "textbooks" before they are even available at "bookstores".
Re:Textbooks by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:37 · Score: 0

Kick Ass Torrents - kat.ph
Re:Textbooks by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 02:26 · Score: 3, Insightful

The textbook industry is a scam. If anyone deserves to have their products pirated, it's those bastards. Retail prices are insane; resale prices are absurd, especially in light of what book stores will give you for your used books - that has to be on the order of 200%-300% profit on a resale; if resales begin to impact the bottom line of new book sales, they'll just make a minor edit and release a new revision. Certainly profitable for everyone involved except the student, but hardly a business practice worthy of respect.
Re:Textbooks by Scarred+Intellect · 2012-08-13 03:01 · Score: 4, Informative

http://www.ebooks-shares.org/
http://LibraryPirate.ph
Re:Textbooks by Hatta · 2012-08-13 04:24 · Score: 4, Insightful

Not everyone who wants to read a textbook is a member of an academic institution. A good introductory text to a field you're not familiar with is usually better reading than whatever happens to be on top of the NYT best seller list.

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Re:Textbooks by h4rr4r · 2012-08-13 04:34 · Score: 3, Informative

Generally speaking university libraries are open to the public. I went to a private university in the North East and any member of the public was free to read books in the library and only requirements to check one out were to have some form of state ID to get a library card.
Re:Textbooks by icebraining · 2012-08-13 06:12 · Score: 1

For many people I know, that would be leaving their chars and taking a plane ride.
Not that they're much interested in reading textbooks anyway.

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Re:Textbooks by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 07:23 · Score: 0

There are a few silly problems with university libraries, or any public accessible library for that matter.
You almost never find really good books like Hackers Delight in them. The name to a person that isn't familiar with what it is just sounds bad. However it contains some of the best bit manipulation tricks I've ever read about. This particular book was nowhere to be found when I wanted to get my hands on a copy, was "out of stock" at all the online stores I trust, no local store even heard about it, so of course I turned to demonoid to get a copy.
You can't bring your computer with you to work along with the examples presented in the books. This is a huge problem for books like GPU Gems, Shader X, and similar high end graphics programming books where you need a proper debugging setup to fully explore the concepts of a given chapter. I'm far too poor to buy a laptop that can handle the kind of stuff you see in those books, so that's out of the question. Aside from that intense stuff like what you find in those kinds of books would kill a laptop battery in no time flat.
I would not have learned as much as I have about game development without websites like demonoid where I can acquire expensive software and books at no cost other than my internet connection and computer. It's not that I wouldn't pay the prices if I had the money to do so (I really only have around $20 after rent, electric, gas, water, and internet). It's the catch-22 that sucks, in order to get into a good paying job/career, you need training; in order to get training you need a good amount of money.
Re:Textbooks by shentino · 2012-08-13 10:01 · Score: 1

And college professors are guilty of aiding and abetting by forcing their students to buy the crap by assigning homework out of it.
Thing is those textbooks have super convenient instructor-only support material that professors love.
Students are in fact not the target market for textbooks. Just like husbands aren't the target market for diamonds, even though the money to buy them comes out of their pockets.
Catering to people who can squeeze money out of other people's pockets is a powerful marketing tool. The ethics of doing so are obviously a different story.

Yeah I'll get right on that... by Havenwar · 2012-08-13 01:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Sounds like shady marketers would be the only ones who would actually want it, after all for the rest of us it's just an open invitation for various agencies to start digging for dirt on us. If getting caught for torrenting small amounts of pirated goods is about as likely as getting hit by lightning, then buying this domain would be akin to climbing up onto the highest building around during a lightningstorm wearing your special copper-clad "protection from girls +3" homemade armour and swinging a long copper rod angrily at the skies.

Re:Yeah I'll get right on that... by aNonnyMouseCowered · 2012-08-13 02:22 · Score: 1

Don't count out the non-believers or believers of alternative religions who might be tempted into buying such an evil-sounding website name. Might also work for a hardcore gamer's site.
Re:Yeah I'll get right on that... by Havenwar · 2012-08-13 02:29 · Score: 1

Actually I do count them out. It's an unlikely market at best, and what little of it do exist won't be wanting to pay for the amount of traffic/page rank and so on that those domains likely have accrued. And no serious hardcorce gamer site would be unaware of the domains background, which means they'd pretty much be paying a lot of money just to guarantee that they are from day one linked to illegal activities. Not that they do anything illegal, no... But that people have a reasonable suspicion that they might, that they might condone it, or whatever. It doesn't take a genius to see that the only people who can safely and comfortably use the name are those who are already operating on the fringe of the law, and thus have procedures in place for dealing with that.
Re:Yeah I'll get right on that... by webheaded · 2012-08-13 09:32 · Score: 1

Newzbin2 did it for a while as they transitioned over to their own domains. Seemed to work out quite well, actually.

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Re:Yeah I'll get right on that... by Havenwar · 2012-08-13 17:00 · Score: 1

Proving my point in other posts. Quote from wikipedia: "Newzbin is a British Usenet indexing website, intended to facilitate access to content on Usenet. The site has caused controversy over its stance on copyrighted material".
Operating under this domain is inviting scrutiny from the authorities and other parties, so only people who are already operating fringe businesses or straight out illegal ones would be (should be) interested.

I hope samzenpus is getting a commission by 1u3hr · 2012-08-13 01:12 · Score: 4, Insightful

He's earned it after posting this slashvertisement "the time is ripe as of now for the sale of the domain names"

What next? Penny stocks? Canadian pharmacy stories?

Re:I hope samzenpus is getting a commission by Mitreya · 2012-08-13 02:32 · Score: 1

What next? Penny stocks? Canadian pharmacy stories?
Well, timothy covered the exciting 10% Nook discount just a few hours ago.
Next would be "FriendOfSlashdot" coupon offers...

It's a trap... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:15 · Score: 0

Anybody who bids on those domains will probably have their names and information transmitted to the RIMPAA as potential supporters of piracy, because after all "The only people interested in piracy are pirates".

All things being equal, I would have liked the registrar to have shown some class and sponsor the domain with a tombstone "Demonoid, April 9th 2003 - July 25th 2012, Trying to make the world a better place"

But stay classy registrar, I'm sure you'll be happy to take the moneys and then turn around and report whomever won to the authorities so you can sell it again...

Re:It's a trap... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:16 · Score: 0

Are you aware that you're an idiot?

wtf by shentino · 2012-08-13 01:25 · Score: 3, Interesting

So they get hacked, start serving malware, and the ukraine computer police bust THEM for the malware and let the hacker get off scot free?

Methinks the so called "hacker" was an inside job done by a mole of the copyright interests just to give the authorities an excuse to shut them down.

Re:wtf by icebraining · 2012-08-13 06:21 · Score: 3, Informative

According to a Russian newspaper, Kommersant, there was a source in the Ukranian ministry confirming that the raid was scheduled to coincide with the Prime Ministerâs trip to the United States, where he would be discussing copyright infringement.
I think it could not be more clear, even if the "source" is fake.

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Ukranian shitbag government by ickleberry · 2012-08-13 01:27 · Score: 1, Troll

Shutting the site down as a "present" to Obama. Such a lousy thing to do, Obama's family probably used Demonoid

Re:Ukranian shitbag government by wbr1 · 2012-08-13 01:39 · Score: 0, Troll

No, Obama (D-Kenya) has stated that his family, like many Kenyans, dislike Ukranians. I stems from the Kenyan - Ukranian war in Djibouti (capital Djibouti). {end sarcasm}

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Re:Ukranian shitbag government by Hunter+Shoptaw · 2012-08-13 03:03 · Score: 1

Shut up. If you have nothing intellectual to add, then please just shut up.
Re:Ukranian shitbag government by wbr1 · 2012-08-13 04:29 · Score: 1

Nope.. soon I will be doing MyCleanPC posts. Enjoy.

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Re:Ukranian shitbag government by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:31 · Score: 1

It's painful to read Slashdot now due to that crap. I usually get about 15 comments deep before realizing I haven't read a single comment related to the article. Then it's on to the next article, because I didn't learn my lesson.

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:28 · Score: 0

Disprove apk's points here troll http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972113

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by gaelfx · 2012-08-13 01:29 · Score: 2

If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.

You got that right. I think.

Re:Bet this upsets you, doesn't it? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:29 · Score: 0

Disprove apk's points here troll http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972113

TPB by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:33 · Score: 0

is next?

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:40 · Score: 0

Apk must scare certain parties (malware makers, advertisers, competing security solution makers, and possibly webmasters losing banner ad revenues) that they've been using illogical off topic ad hominem attack fails directed his way almost constantly the past few weeks now on slashdot. If they would pay more attention to the ads their sites serve up there wouldn't be as much need to block ads out. If they would make ads that would raise cpu temps and electricity use so much higher in addition to be obtrusive, there wouldn't be as much need to block ads. If they wouldn't make ads that are larger than the actual content further tearing up cpu time, ram, and other forms of input-output (such as malicious content most especially, the topic here), there wouldn't be as much need to block ads. The troll that issued his 'challenge' ironically seems to run each time from one put to he here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972241

Demonoid clones? by Cinnaman · 2012-08-13 01:43 · Score: 1

The webmaster says the site will return but still, I think he should release the platform the site runs on so that Demonoid-like sites can be created.

Otherwise where's the "whack-a-mole" factor that people mention when a major site is taken down.

Re:Demonoid clones? by djdavetrouble · 2012-08-19 06:57 · Score: 1

It serves torrents, you can comment on torrents, it tracks bandwidth, whats the big deal? Its probably a pile of messy code anyway...,

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Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:47 · Score: 0

"competing security solution makers"

Somebody please moderate this +5 Funny.

That shit is priceless.

For a second I almost thought you were serious. Good show. 9/10, would rage again.

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:49 · Score: 0

"Run, Forrest: RUN" http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:51 · Score: 0

"Run, Forrest: RUN" http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365

Wow... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:52 · Score: 0

Use illegal DDoS to shut down torrent site, raid data center and confiscate data while site is blacked out, then seize and auction domain names? This is some seriously underhanded shit going down here.

Re:geez, this Slashvertisement isn't even disguise by alphatel · 2012-08-13 01:52 · Score: 1, Informative

A better link to the portfolio:
http://sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=demonoid.com

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Blatant attempt to market the names by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:59 · Score: 0

.why is this on /.?

"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat", ac troll... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 01:59 · Score: 0

"Run, Forrest: RUN" -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365

* Your illogical off-topic failing ad hominem attack attempts don't stand up very well when you RUN from a challenge, now do they?

Nope!

APK

P.S.=> "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!", lmao...

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I miss it already (huge movie buff) by AbRASiON · 2012-08-13 02:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

Ok so I'm an evil horrible movie pirate....
*however* in my defence, I'm in Australia - our online streaming offerings are utterly dreadful "Content not available in your region" geo-ip blocking is something you learn to DETEST here.... or of course our internet download limits which would go with them - streaming is often significantly less efficient than a fully buffered, truly local copy of a film. (no stutter, better quality, no need to re-download if you pause half way through and the playback device goes to sleep)

Furthermore my tastes are incredibly obscure, I'm one of those movie nerds who will watch a film, check imdb trivia and forums (80% bad, 20% good) to find more information about the actors, writers, directors, trivia and so on. Unfortunately for almost every movie I watch, I find 2 to 5 more. Yes I'm a movie junkie, I love them.

Problem is here, Demonoid was the only place I know of with really, really obscure stuff - it's not just the Korean, Japanese, Thai, Hong Kong films - it's also the overall older films or the things which aren't a 7 or higher in IMDB. Finding odd Japanese 1970's film under say IMDB 6.5 LEGALLY is damn near impossible in this country or online (out of print DVDs or collector pricing) it's simply extremely difficult to find a legal, simple and reliable solution.

So, long story short is, demonoid saved my ass for a long time and already in the few weeks it's been gone I've been finding less and less of the things I'm after. - the movie houses don't make this easy for us in the slightest :/

RIP Demonoid.

Re:I miss it already (huge movie buff) by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 02:33 · Score: 0

>demonoid saved my ass for a long time
How did downloading films keep you out of danger?
Re:I miss it already (huge movie buff) by sg_oneill · 2012-08-13 03:51 · Score: 5, Informative

Yeah Its fucking bizare the movie industry is still doing this.
I havent pirated an album in years thanks to itunes more or less solving the music availability puzzle for me. I can afford to blow a tenner here or there for a decent album, and now I do.
But netflix is blocked, hula is blocked, itunes has terrible movie availability here, and AMV etc just do the shitty "Not available in your region" crap.
What other options do we have in australia? Sweet fuck all. So australians pirate movies.
Surely fixing that problem should be a priority but this shits being going on for the better part of a decade.
Shoot the lawyers, offer the services here, problem solved the studios get fat cash and we get to have the movies and TV shows we want.

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Re:I miss it already (huge movie buff) by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 04:00 · Score: 0

try cinemageddon.net or horrorcharnel, (you'll need an invite for those) ...or tracker3 is public.
Re:I miss it already (huge movie buff) by Cherubim1 · 2012-08-13 04:32 · Score: 1

You're not looking hard enough if you think Demonoid was the main place to find obscure content. There are many file hosting sites and even Usenet binaries which have even more obscure stuff. Secondly, it's a bit stupid to admit you pirate content on a site like this given the amount of surveillance that this site is subjected to.
Re:I miss it already (huge movie buff) by Kalriath · 2012-08-13 12:05 · Score: 2, Informative

Your problem is probably the same as ours (in NZ). Foxtel (or Sky, here). I assume they own the content market in Australia as well? And they likely keep spouting how they aren't the reason content is unavailable or slow?
And the other reason - the pipes into your country are likely as expensive as ours. Unfortunately, you can blame NZ for that as the Southern Cross Cable is majority owned by Telecom NZ, but I hear you guys have a couple of other pipes as ours. We actually had someone from Netflix come to NZ just to tell us that they will never launch here because bandwidth is too slow and expensive.

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Re:I miss it already (huge movie buff) by AbRASiON · 2012-08-13 12:48 · Score: 2

Well, really all my post has done has told them that their campaign was successful. Also it's not like I don't speak the truth.
Finally - the movies I'm in to are so obscure I doubt the big American movie houses even give a damn about the films I was obtaining.
FWIW I did mean to post anonymous but oh well.
Re:I miss it already (huge movie buff) by mgcarley · 2012-08-14 04:52 · Score: 2

Aussie has numerous cables (4 or 5 not including SxC, soon adding another major cable to Singapore) compared to our 1... Would have been 2, but too many of the folks with money are too pussy to put it up for what was Pacific Fibre and now that's been scrapped. They could/should have *at least* got a pipe going from Auckland or Wellington to Sydney for under 1/4 of the cost to get it started so that NZ ISPs would have a chance at buying bandwidth on the Australian market, but alas... anyway, as a result of the cable competition, the price per megabit is significantly less, resulting in better plan offerings from most of the major ISPs: a 1TB plan is AUD$99 whereas in NZ that same plan is over NZ$300.
So the Netflix guy was kind of right, although, something *can* be done about this: cache the files locally and the costs come down dramatically as the content is served domestically and domestic capacity in NZ is actually reasonably cheap,.. it's just that dastardly SxC's hold on international bandwidth that's killing our country.

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without trial by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 02:18 · Score: 0

selling the guys assets without trial, oh wait its HIM doing it.....

Visitors.... by RdeCourtney · 2012-08-13 02:43 · Score: 1

According to Sedo.. the DEMONOID.COM domain had 7,017 visitors in the last 31 days... hardly an "internet marketers dream"....

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Re:Visitors.... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:46 · Score: 1

Their .com died years ago, the main site was .me

"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:02 · Score: 0

See subject-line, & "Run, Forrest: RUN" -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365

* Seems to "silence" the ac troll stalker I have everytime I post it...

(That, or he goes completely off-topic with failing attempts @ illogical ad hominem attacks directed my way, or impersonating me (trying to), etc./et al... hilarious!)

APK

P.S.=> I find it incredibly amusing watching the ac troll that stalks me all over /. for months now outright RUN from disproving points I make on custom hosts files' benefits to end users of them, everytime... apk

Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:58 · Score: 0

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365
Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 04:07 · Score: 0

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972241
Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:09 · Score: 0

apk tore ya apart on hosts files today n ya ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:04 · Score: 0

See subject-line, & "Run, Forrest: RUN" -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365

* Seems to "silence" the ac troll stalker I have everytime I post it...

(That, or he goes completely off-topic with failing attempts @ illogical ad hominem attacks directed my way, or impersonating me (trying to), bogus downmods of my posts with NO TECHNICAL JUSTIFICATION IN COMPUTING BEHIND THEM (just "hit & run" downmods), etc./et al... hilarious!)

APK

P.S.=> I find it incredibly amusing watching the ac troll that stalks me all over /. for months now outright RUN from disproving points I make on custom hosts files' benefits to end users of them, everytime... apk

Re:not all that different by v1 · 2012-08-13 03:12 · Score: 1

it's a torrent site? Sketchy, dangerous, and exploit-running ads are a staple of torrent sites, as far as I've seen.

Public trackers, yes. Private is an entirely different matter. And if you're seriously considering using a public tracker, you're foolish in more than one way.

It's just a problem of lack of accountability on the public trackers.

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Re:Disprove my points here, ac troll by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:14 · Score: 0

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972469

Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat", ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:16 · Score: 0

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Re:Disprove My points here troll by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:17 · Score: 0

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Re:Disprove My points here troll by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:18 · Score: 0

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Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:22 · Score: 0

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Someone With A Backup Should Move it to TOR by ilikenwf · 2012-08-13 03:25 · Score: 1

Host it on TOR and they can't take it down...I've been wondering if Pirate Bay had a mirror up in that manner yet as well...using magnets just slapping these sites on TOR would prevent them from ever really going away.

"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:44 · Score: 0

$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski

We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.

Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?

Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.

If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.

I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.

Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.

Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.

I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.

If Natalie Portman is not measurable, She is Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!

You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of abusive emails to the operator of OSY, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threatening to sue him for libel, claiming that the APK on OSY was fake.

My reputa

Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 03:59 · Score: 0

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365

Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 04:01 · Score: 0

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365

Useless. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 04:04 · Score: 0

Only the .ph domain is worth something. Both .com and .me are valid targets for one of the next ICE domain name seizure rounds.

Re:Good point on NoScript... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 04:04 · Score: 0

Decent program. Ever considered open sourcing it?

Thought about it (& more)... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 04:13 · Score: 0

I have. I've already shown the code to Mr. Steven Burn of malwarebytes/hpHosts services@it-mate.co.uk, & he worked on making sure it was clean with Mr. Henry Hertz Hobbitt of hhhobbit@securemecca.com , via tracing & disassembly.

* Both are members of the security community for whom the program was INITIALLY designed for.

APK

P.S.=> Thanks... & again - Enjoy the program, since it does do everything I enumerated about it as to benefits it yields for users of custom hosts files...

... apk

Only idiot marketers by deblau · 2012-08-13 04:15 · Score: 2

As soon as word gets out that Demonoid is down, hits will drop to almost nothing. If the standard domain parking page goes up, they will never get any clicks, and they will never get any repeat hits.

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Sedo cancelled the auction for demonoid.com by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 05:14 · Score: 1

Tried to bid on the domain and then I got this....
"Due to possible legal issues associated with this domain, Sedo is not able to offer services for the domain. Please consider selecting an alternative domain."

Can anyone...? by mark-t · 2012-08-13 05:26 · Score: 0

... mention a single specific use case of a copyrighted work that had a torrent file on Demonoid that met the following three criteria?

Legally redistributable;
Not readily available as a torrent at another, arguably more relevant location (eg, a link to a Linux distro torrent that could also be found on the distro's web site);or
Was not an artificially contrived example to simply show a possible legitimate use.

I'm just curious.

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Re:Can anyone...? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 13:50 · Score: 0

Eclipse Phase, a tabletop RPG, was put up on Demonoid by the creators. One of the founders of the company has since put up links to the books on his blog (http://robboyle.wordpress.com/eclipse-phase-pdfs/), but the original files were on Demonoid.

Re:not all that different by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 05:32 · Score: 0

Honestly, the only people I've seen get a virus are people who don't know what they're doing. So if you don't know what you're doing, I'd suggest just getting off the internet, because you're certainly not going to fare any better when you visit normal websites (not being able to tell what is likely a virus and what isn't).

Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 05:54 · Score: 0

This is too much spam for me to enjoy reading at -1.

I'm sad now.

Re:not all that different by icebraining · 2012-08-13 06:07 · Score: 1

There's nothing wrong with using a public tracker; it's where you pick the magnet link that matters. Trackers don't do anything but tell you where the peers are.

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Re:not all that different by Richy_T · 2012-08-13 06:59 · Score: 1

Trackers and torrent sites are not the same thing.

Do you really think anyone is fooled? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 09:22 · Score: 0

EVERYONE can instantly see through your attempts to promote your software. You really believe your fake stalker is doing you any good? Do you incorrectly assume that you're getting sympathy and support every time you post the AC $10k challenge?

Lame.

Re:Do you really think anyone is fooled? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:03 · Score: 0

apk tore ya a new one on hosts files today an you ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479
Re:Do you really think anyone is fooled? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-19 00:07 · Score: 0

everyone sees you're a lazy shit with no skills that can't do the same.

Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 09:47 · Score: 0

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Re:Sorry, that wasn't me. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 09:49 · Score: 0

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Re:Good point on NoScript... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 09:51 · Score: 0

Alex

Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:05 · Score: 0

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Re:Hello Alex by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:10 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:13 · Score: 0

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Re:That wasn't me, sorry. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:15 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:31 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:32 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:33 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:35 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:37 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:38 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:43 · Score: 0

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From now on, URL for an URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:43 · Score: 0

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Re:From now on, URL for an URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:49 · Score: 0

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Re:From now on, URL for an URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:50 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:44 · Score: 0

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From now on, URL for an URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:44 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:45 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:46 · Score: 0

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URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:47 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:51 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:13 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:13 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:14 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:16 · Score: 0

Hi troll. No Alex here. Just face the music here coward http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40965209
Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:17 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:18 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:19 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:21 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:25 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:31 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:32 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:32 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:34 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:49 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:50 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:51 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:58 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:00 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:01 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:01 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:02 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:04 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:04 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:05 · Score: 0

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Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:25 · Score: 0

Can't you disprove apk's points on benefits of hosts files http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972113 ?
Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:27 · Score: 0

Can't you disprove apk's points on benefits of hosts files http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972113 ?
Re:URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 13:47 · Score: 0

apk tore ya a new one on hosts files today an you ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:48 · Score: 0

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Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:52 · Score: 0

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Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 10:54 · Score: 0

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Re:Good point on NoScript... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:03 · Score: 0

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URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:05 · Score: 0

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URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:06 · Score: 0

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URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:07 · Score: 0

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URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 11:08 · Score: 0

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URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:06 · Score: 0

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URL for URL by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:11 · Score: 0

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3046211&cid=40979293

Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:23 · Score: 0

BS. You came in trollin 1st http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972271 right after apk's post here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972113 so who are you attempting to deceive troll? You also project your own methods using tor. You're so stupid you gave away your methods.

Sockpuppet detected by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:28 · Score: 0

Hello Alex http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3046211&cid=40979293

Sock detected by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:29 · Score: 0

Hello Alex http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3046211&cid=40979293

Re:Sock detected by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:43 · Score: 0

APK dusts yet another troll on hosts files. No surprise there.

Troll detected (failing troll) by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:39 · Score: 0

You can't disprove apk's points on hosts files benefits. You fail troll.

Sock detected by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:40 · Score: 0

Hello Alex http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3046211&cid=40979293

Troll detected (failing troll) by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:41 · Score: 0

You came in here trollin. You can't disprove apk's points on hosts? You fail troll.

Sock by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:55 · Score: 0

Hello Alex http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3046211&cid=40979293

Re:Sock by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 13:05 · Score: 0

apk got the better of you on hosts files troll? oh the shame. rotflmao.
Re:Sock by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 13:12 · Score: 0

why don't you disproof apk's points on hosts file benefits troll?
Re:Sock by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 13:18 · Score: 0

he can't. nobody ever has. apk's points on hosts files are frustrating for trolls.
Re:Sock by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 13:28 · Score: 0

apk got the best of trolls on hosts files again. It's why they troll him.

Sock by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 12:56 · Score: 0

Hello Alex http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3046211&cid=40979293

Sock by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 13:08 · Score: 0

Hello Alex http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3046211&cid=40979293

Re:Oh hai, Alex! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 13:45 · Score: 0

apk burned ya on hosts files today an you ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:05 · Score: 0

apk tore ya up on hosts files today an you ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

Re:That wasn't me, sorry. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:06 · Score: 0

apk annihilated ya on hosts files today an you ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:08 · Score: 0

apk tore ya up on hosts files today n' you ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:12 · Score: 0

apk tore ya a new one on hosts files today an ya ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:30 · Score: 0

apk tore ya a new one on hosts files today an ya ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

Re:Bet this upsets you, doesn't it? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-13 14:33 · Score: 0

apk tore ya a new one on hosts files today an ya ran beyotch http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

Re:Good point on NoScript... apk by murphtall · 2012-08-14 06:47 · Score: 1

What if I do not run windows and will not run windows?

Re:Oh, poor lil' jealous "ne'er-do-well" troll, lo by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 13:14 · Score: 0

Hahaha all the troll had was a downmod to a question. Hilarious.

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 13:34 · Score: 0

Run, troll, run http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042765&cid=40979479

Re:apk really knocked the snot outta you troll by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:09 · Score: 0

Absolutely! Funnier'n hell too since he made em run like bitches, lol!

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:16 · Score: 0

Hehehe that was funny!

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:37 · Score: 0

bigger bullshit's the amount o mod points they use to mod you down.

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:41 · Score: 0

Indeed. APK's nukes trolls so they have to hide posts w\ downmods.

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:44 · Score: 0

Nice part's that the mods have made the trolls unable to post, lol!

Re:Disprove My points here troll by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:47 · Score: 0

Apk, you know the dumbshit trolls aren't smart enough to do it.

Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:48 · Score: 0

Hahahaha that's classic! "Forrest", lol

Re:"Rinse, Lather, & Repeat" ac troll... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:50 · Score: 0

apk ya know trolls will run from that every time man! Good job.

NoScript & Hosts are pretty much universal by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-18 23:53 · Score: 0

So if the OS can run FireFox, it can use NoScript. If the OS has a BSD derived IP Stack, then odds are, it can use custom hosts files.

I've thought about "porting" the "APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++" 32/64-bit to MacOS X (since Delphi XE can do that much) &/or Linux (via FreePascal + Lazarus IDE, or via Kylix - but that means hassles in the latter, more than the former, since Borland stopped producing it... iirc, it would work right until Linux kernel 2.3? Not sure anymore!

(However, Delphi XE2 future models WILL DO LINUX AGAIN! This I cannot WAIT for... to have a truly "multi-platform" compiler that does single "stand-alone" non-runtime interpreted FAST code, for all of the "Big 3" OS from my fav. language, Object-Pascal!)

* So, the worst things I'd have to "look out" for during ports to MacOS X &/or Linux would be:

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1.) Drive letters (vs. *NIX style mounted devices)

&/or

2.) Differences in sockets (for IP datastreams)... that's on a rough initial guess @ least!

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Additionally - I don't "do" any registry writes/reads in the program since I tried to make it a "portable" model (meaning can be run from a floppy disk, or USB stick, etc./et al!)... thus, the code's not too "Windows Specific" on that account, for example. I tried to avoid that, in case I end up "porting" it to other OS platforms later.

In the meantime though?

The app SHOULD be ok under "WINE" on Linux @ least... @ least, I'd think so!

(However/Disclaimer: I don't have Linux installed here anymore (though I did with KUbuntu 12.04 recently, just to see how it was vs. KUbuntu 10.04, last one I ran for much of 2010 in fact - it's good stuff, I just happen to like Windows more is all, specifically Windows 7 64-bit)).

APK

P.S.=> YMMV, but that's my "take" on it, & I wasn't exactly SURE what you were referring to either (in custom hosts, OR, NoScript)...

... apk

Good news (2 more security sites hosting it) by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-19 00:01 · Score: 0

http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html + http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download as well as Start64 (an exclusively 64-bit program hosting site only) -> http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

* So far, so good... she's a "hit"!

One that does folks a LOT of good!

Especially in added speed/bandwidth, less electricity consumption (blocking banners & more), "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" vs. known sites-servers/hosts-domains that are known to serve up malwares (updated every 15 minutes here), better reliability (vs. downed or dns poisoned redirected DNS servers), vs. botnet C&C servers, bogus DNS servers malware makers use, & even better anonymity to an extent (vs. DNSBL's you feel are not right/just).

APK

P.S.=> Perhaps one day soon, when Delphi Xe3 hits (which is soon)? I'll "port it" to MacOS X (I can already do THAT via Delphi Xe2), & Linux (used to be able to with Kylix, Borland discontinued it, BUT I could with FreePascal + Lazarus - I'll wait for Delphi Xe3 though)...

Anyhow/anyways - in ANY event?

Well... Enjoy the program, she's a "runner", & thanks for your time (+ patience since the trolls here downmod my posts on hosts files - my guess is many are malware makers themselves is why)... apk

Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-19 00:46 · Score: 0

dude that's all the trolls have no since the mods blocked them from posting.

Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-19 01:11 · Score: 0

notice the trolls're unable to post? the admins blocked 'em, lol! stalker trolls aren't welcome here.

Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-19 01:13 · Score: 0

Keep runnin forrest hahaha http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3044971&cid=40972365

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