dtcamero
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From: new york
Registered: 2010-05-15
Posts: 653
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???
SomeCallMeChris
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From: Massachusetts USA
Registered: 2011-08-01
Posts: 787
dtcamero wrote:
is this just some elaborate hoax to get you to look at ads?
Probably.
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.
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.
ファブリス
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2006-06-14
Posts: 4021
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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.
