Warez Moving From BitTorrent to Conventional Hosting Services 366
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."
Free games? (Score:5, Funny)
List of warez ftp sites... regularly updated (Score:5, Funny)
General information on accessing these sites:
The first rule of usenet (Score:4, Funny)
Is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.
The second rule of Usenet is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.
Re:Can we stop calling it "piracy" already? (Score:5, Funny)
Not as cool as being called a ninja, but I'll take what I can get.
Re:List of warez ftp sites... regularly updated (Score:4, 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.
Re:The future of piracy... (Score:4, 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.
Artificial Poverty (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...
Re:The first rule of usenet (Score:3, 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.
Re:captain obvious (Score:3, Funny)
My mother was a crackhead, you insensitive clod.
(I've always wanted to do one of these. I'll stop now... ..probably.)
You could not be more wrong. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:List of warez ftp sites... regularly updated (Score:3, Funny)
They forgot one of the best:
ftp://warez.waldo.net
Re:All things old... (Score:3, 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.
Does not compute. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You could not be more wrong. (Score:2, Funny)