Its strange how bad some of the hacking is getting lately. It seems like it used to be limited to a few people who were actually capable of doing anything and they for the most part seemed to have a code of ethics, you know, hack the bad guys but the good guys are part of the team. Now it seems that its become so much easier to do and everyone wants to try to prove that they are some l337 haxors by pressing a few buttons on a script and thinking they are billy badass for a day. I also dont think that many of these guys realize how easy it is to trace them. Sure they know how ip addresses work but masking this is pretty hard. Not unless they are smart enough to login to their neighbors wireless or some sort of thing like that. I suppose its the age of wireless that makes this even easier to perform. Maybe I am just getting old and this is how it always was?
Anyways sorry it happened. I like this site and you guys certainly dont deserve having to deal with this type of thing. There are plenty of other sites out there that would make a pretty good target. Here is one http://www.rove.com/
You are confusing bias with deceit. There is a big difference as every person when writing is biased and its up to the reader to determine that but there is a big difference between bias and outright lying or in the case of this just plain not checking facts. But accusing everyone of being liars is not really fair.
It really gets old reading story after story putting down the pirate bay and completely getting wrong how torrents even work. Oh wait this is turning into a list of things that they (mainstream press) always gets wrong with just this one subject or the broader "pirating"
1. that no matter what its stealing
2. that peer to peer has no use except to steal
3. that pirates are thieves and nothing else and will never pay for anything
4. that "stealing" will lead to other crimes
5. that they are all criminals
6. that its even a crime
7. that the pirate bay is different than how other search engines such as google work
8. that only the pirate bay and other "illegal sites" provide ways to be a criminal
9. this goes on forever
geez it gets so old reading these half researched and fully damaging stories that reporting like this should be the crime.
If this is truly a demo and they have no problem with people "pirating" it then why dont they just offer it as a true free demo and share it on their servers? It would get a lot more people to download it and try it (the whole point of a demo) and get any of the nonsensical pirating arguments out of there. From what I have read they say they dont care and say its ok to pirate but they arent really saying its ok since they are not licensing it to be shared in this way nor offering it on their servers. I cant stand this type of game but I am sure someone out there would try it.
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no ethical hacking
Its strange how bad some of the hacking is getting lately. It seems like it used to be limited to a few people who were actually capable of doing anything and they for the most part seemed to have a code of ethics, you know, hack the bad guys but the good guys are part of the team. Now it seems that its become so much easier to do and everyone wants to try to prove that they are some l337 haxors by pressing a few buttons on a script and thinking they are billy badass for a day. I also dont think that many of these guys realize how easy it is to trace them. Sure they know how ip addresses work but masking this is pretty hard. Not unless they are smart enough to login to their neighbors wireless or some sort of thing like that. I suppose its the age of wireless that makes this even easier to perform. Maybe I am just getting old and this is how it always was?
Anyways sorry it happened. I like this site and you guys certainly dont deserve having to deal with this type of thing. There are plenty of other sites out there that would make a pretty good target. Here is one http://www.rove.com/
That was a joke btw.
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You are confusing bias with deceit. There is a big difference as every person when writing is biased and its up to the reader to determine that but there is a big difference between bias and outright lying or in the case of this just plain not checking facts. But accusing everyone of being liars is not really fair.
sad
It really gets old reading story after story putting down the pirate bay and completely getting wrong how torrents even work. Oh wait this is turning into a list of things that they (mainstream press) always gets wrong with just this one subject or the broader "pirating"
1. that no matter what its stealing
2. that peer to peer has no use except to steal
3. that pirates are thieves and nothing else and will never pay for anything
4. that "stealing" will lead to other crimes
5. that they are all criminals
6. that its even a crime
7. that the pirate bay is different than how other search engines such as google work
8. that only the pirate bay and other "illegal sites" provide ways to be a criminal
9. this goes on forever
geez it gets so old reading these half researched and fully damaging stories that reporting like this should be the crime.
Why dont they offer the "demo" as a download then?
If this is truly a demo and they have no problem with people "pirating" it then why dont they just offer it as a true free demo and share it on their servers? It would get a lot more people to download it and try it (the whole point of a demo) and get any of the nonsensical pirating arguments out of there. From what I have read they say they dont care and say its ok to pirate but they arent really saying its ok since they are not licensing it to be shared in this way nor offering it on their servers. I cant stand this type of game but I am sure someone out there would try it.