ok so whiteknights begone... this thread is for pirates.

searching for torrents often leads to these two kinds of (potentially gainful) sites...:
Admin: Please don't insert links to torrent sites. It's against the forum rules and it could also attract more spammers to this forum.

the first has a bunch of crap and banners etc, and there are "download" links in places and things that say "password" if you click on them that take you to other pages... and eventually you get to something asking you for a password, but none of the password-pages give you anything that works, apparently. but maybe i'm doing this wrong...

the second seems to be a motherload of downloadable dubbed movies, and says something about finding the movie in a link and dropping that link into a movie-Download website, which generates a file...but nothing ever links anywhere other than these other faux-movie download sites. but again maybe i'm doing this wrong...

is this just some elaborate hoax to get you to look at ads?

there are also the sites that purport to give a torrent file for a thing, and then present you with 10 download links to lists of hentai and porn (which you probably also cannot actually get... ) the sheer number of this type of hoax site clogging the j-interwebs boggles the mind and makes me wonder what their intention is. what use is seeing their ads if I'm so enraged by the process I would never seek out and buy that (super sketchy) thing anyway???

dtcamero Wrote:is this just some elaborate hoax to get you to look at ads?

Probably.

Quote:there are also the sites that purport to give a torrent file for a thing, and then present you with 10 download links to lists of hentai and porn (which you probably also cannot actually get... )

You can probably get small clips, and promises that a credit card number will get you the rest of the production and/or more productions. Whether or not your credit card buys anything or is simply stolen will depend on the site.

Quote:the sheer number of this type of hoax site clogging the j-interwebs boggles the mind and makes me wonder what their intention is. what use is seeing their ads if I'm so enraged by the process I would never seek out and buy that (super sketchy) thing anyway???

Ah, it's the beauty of spam, see. Bandwidth is cheap, the number of people searching for free-to-watch video is nearly the same as the number of people with an internet connection - 1 percent of 1 percent of 1 million people is 100 suckers customers.
Measure your hits in the millions, and it becomes worthwhile.

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:

Quote:the sheer number of this type of hoax site clogging the j-interwebs boggles the mind and makes me wonder what their intention is. what use is seeing their ads if I'm so enraged by the process I would never seek out and buy that (super sketchy) thing anyway???

Ah, it's the beauty of spam, see. Bandwidth is cheap, the number of people searching for free-to-watch video is nearly the same as the number of people with an internet connection - 1 percent of 1 percent of 1 million people is 100 suckers customers.
Measure your hits in the millions, and it becomes worthwhile.

Sorry I don't have anything useful to add, but the logic in that post just amuses me to the point that I had to point it out xD

This thread is a direct insult to the site. Fabrice doesn't want piracy on this board, and we've respected that. Don't let the fact that it's free make you think this is public property. Fabrice puts a lot of time and energy into this so that we can learn things together. This is not an appropriate place for piracy.

I can't see this thread do anything besides derailing into a flame war about piracy in general. Reported.

Malicious site + zero day exploit + sucker looking for free vids = bigger botnet. Eeeasy.

I suggest to everyone to visit a site of unknown reputation and increase amount of bandwidth used by spamers, botnets, frauders. You can also advertise your credit card details if you feel like. (sarcasm)

The above is based on reports that I happen to read occasionally - like this one for example:

"Report finds an average of 9,300 malicious websites per day in fourth quarter 2011"

http://www.darkreading.com/mobile-securi...tsays.html

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OP Wrote:is this just some elaborate hoax to get you to look at ads?

Admittedly I'm a programmer so this is easier for me to see, but if you pay attention and reload pages on some of those sites you can see that the file names and file size (eg. 1.2Mb) are randomly generated. For the most part this is to get as many pages as possible indexed by search engines. Those sites are the worst because they're not content with the advertising, they don't actually give you anything at all that you are looking for.

In general these sites are based on commissions and advertising. It gets really ridiculous when a whole site based on ads and commissions pays commissions to another site for getting more inbound links. Or they work together. You can see quickly that they work in groups. Many of those sites are also probably the same shady business, just giving you more so you can stay in.

Then as Inny pointed out the very real possibility of zero day exploits, and trojans which happened to me once due to a vulnerability in a PDF plugin so I was not anymore safe in Firefox than IE!

Let that be a warning.

These days you can use a virtual machine to surf and run suspicious executables. I don't know how it works or how easy it is to setup.

Anyways while I'm not against a general discussion on piracy, as Kuma mentions, we know where it's going. We already had these discussions.

Topic closed.