Nowhere was it said that the sites were shut down for good. This could be the result of anything - some kind of effort on the part of MPAA, lack of funds to keep operations going, service outage, etc. Stop jumping to conclusions people..
No one said the MPAA shut them down. It was just only mentioned that these sites went offline around the same time it was announced the MPAA was going to start going after these types of sites.
I'm sorry but that is a fucking load of crap sir. I subscribe to all the various notification lists for bugs, exploits, and other security concerns and I can say without a DOUBT that Linux and UNIX in general is overhyped in terms of its security.
I say its alot better off than Windows but it is wholly irresponsible and naive to sit here and say that OSS is somehow better - better to a point where finding bugs in it is fuitle (as you say). I've patched too many sendmail exploits (not my choice to run sendmail, it is corporate IT's decision) and even patched the Linux kernel itself becuase of critical bugs. Don't sit here and tell me that OSS is so much better, it is not.
OSS' advantage comes with the large community of people who work on it, thats it. OSS will generaly have patches issued much faster than a corporate beaucracy will for something like Windows or Solaris.
Are you seriously going to stand by your totally asanine claims? I'll sit here and paste loads of vulernabilities in OSS software if you so desire.
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Please explain this "morally wrong" concept to me as it applies to file sharing.
Nowhere was it said that the sites were shut down for good. This could be the result of anything - some kind of effort on the part of MPAA, lack of funds to keep operations going, service outage, etc. Stop jumping to conclusions people..
No one said the MPAA shut them down. It was just only mentioned that these sites went offline around the same time it was announced the MPAA was going to start going after these types of sites.
I'm sorry but that is a fucking load of crap sir. I subscribe to all the various notification lists for bugs, exploits, and other security concerns and I can say without a DOUBT that Linux and UNIX in general is overhyped in terms of its security.
I say its alot better off than Windows but it is wholly irresponsible and naive to sit here and say that OSS is somehow better - better to a point where finding bugs in it is fuitle (as you say). I've patched too many sendmail exploits (not my choice to run sendmail, it is corporate IT's decision) and even patched the Linux kernel itself becuase of critical bugs. Don't sit here and tell me that OSS is so much better, it is not.
OSS' advantage comes with the large community of people who work on it, thats it. OSS will generaly have patches issued much faster than a corporate beaucracy will for something like Windows or Solaris.
Are you seriously going to stand by your totally asanine claims? I'll sit here and paste loads of vulernabilities in OSS software if you so desire.