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matthewberman.com — There are only a fraction of the illegal websites there was not more than 5 years ago. It is so easy to get software now a days from torrents and IRC sites it’s ridiculous.

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  • nextbigthang, on 10/12/2007, -44/+7great article! very interesting
    • thelastknowngod, on 10/12/2007, -60/+9torrentspy is the best. it kicks the pirate bays ass any day of the week.
    • seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -32/+4Wow... that was quick...Down already.. and all caches are broke too! Corel, Duggmirror, and google!
    • slasherx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+48Torrentspy is different from The Pirate Bay. Where do you think a lot of the content originates from? Without sites like TPB, sites like TorrentSpy really wouldn't be much since they are pretty much crawlers for other torrents from torrent sites.
    • Hellsadvocate, on 10/12/2007, -20/+7good God, i hope these websites don't killed for being featured on the front page of digg. Then my only source is irc, *****' queue's....
    • Wetzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Torrentspy used to be so much better, before they added the 5 million flashing banners with annoying sounds and the pop up every page that even firefox can't stop. And then they even screwed up all their categories, so it's almost impossible to find anything without directly searching for it.
    • oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44@thelastknowngod
      - The Pirate Bay (TPB) has given you The Pirate Party.
      - TPB has kept their logs secret even though the (Swedish?) police raided their "server farm" and took some boxes for evidence.
      - The Makers of TPB have fought the onslaught of copyright owners (in the legal realm) from being able to shut down their torrent-linking service (and by extension, other torrent-linking sites).

      What has TorrentSpy done again? I remember lots of website popups and "women wanting sex in your area".

      Personally, I like some of the larger private trackers nowadays, but I love TPB for what they have done in the legal area.
    • exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4phishing for pirates
    • t3hNinj4, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I, for one, prefer Torrentspy to Piratebay for most things, just because they have a better selection of Torrents. It's happened quite a few times where I was looking for a torrent of some random game or program or album or movie and couldn't find it on Piratebay, but easily found it on Torrentspy or BTjunkie.

      And let me give a shoutout to BTjunkie.com, my new favorite torrent site. Great selection, good sorting methods, no obnoxious flashing banner ads.
    • JaytB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Why don't use 14 of the biggest torrentsites in the same time?
      My personal favorite would be: http://www.torrents.to/
      It's like a metacrawler. Type in what you search, select which torrent-site to search from and find. But here it only starts. You'll get a resultscreen from the selected torrent-site with at the top the 14 available sites where you can click on to see their results. Quick and painless. Great to find that very specific, difficult to find torrent with as many seeds as possible.
      I don't condone piracy in any way, if something is worth the money you should buy it. But then again, not all torrents are Illegal.
    • dokbeast7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I prefer searching scrapetorrent and then downloading off of either TPB or torrentspy. It's a good search and you don't have to mess with either site any more than you want to.
      http://scrapetorrent.com/index.php
    • Raveren, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I use Bit Che for my torrent searching, clean, safe, fast convenient, 18 sites searched by default plus a lot of ones that require registering (at the sites that are being searched) try it! Oh it's free, no crap attatched.

      http://www.convivea.com/product.php?id=2
    • shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use Torrent Harvester if i am ever looking for anyone torrent, it searches something like 88 sites or something ridiculous like that. http://torrentharvester.awardspace.com/

      just for looking at whats up i use Mininova, then piratebay, then torrentspy.
    • theLured, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@wetzilla
      I found the ads on torrentspy annoying too. if you get adblock plus and filterset.g for firefox it will help to remove most of the ads. to remove the rest go into adblocks preferences and a the filter
      http://www.torrentspy.com/staticFrame.asp?*
      this takes most of the other ads off the page.

      I like to use torrentspy, isohunt and piratebay. I also want to try convivea, but windows only. Anyone know something similar for linux, im too lazy to us wine.
    • noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"Great article"? No, it's spam, for reasons "Annotated" gives in his comment below (shame it's currently near the end).

      The fact that the first site on the list is clearly useless (and for sale) shows that the blog is either intentionally spamming this crap, or just plain incompetent. I chose the "spam" option when burying this garbage; you can make up your own minds.
    • jimi1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Wetzilla:
      Try this Stylish script out; it does a nice job of cleaning up TSpy.
      As for the categories, well, hopefully they'll fix their own mistake eventually.
      http://userstyles.org/style/show/183
  • xWintermute, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4interesting. i can see a bunch of these dailymotion based sites popping up in the future.
  • slasherx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11They have dailyepisodes.com in that article, but it's not actually showing any illegal content anymore as they were told to remove it.
    • whoisKeel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That's the whole point of the article...

  • snowwolf, on 10/12/2007, -20/+1duggmirror.com
  • ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -10/+8Don't forget, Newsgroups + News-searchers have been around for more than 20 years, and its still easier than heck (and still the fastest way) for getting anything. Anyone can max out their bandwidth on Newsgroups and find anything in seconds. But I suppose they never needed a website, doesn't come with a blatant manual, which is probably why they aren't cracked down as much.
    • mccord, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1yeah indexing sites are not really needed,
      but grabbing a million headers and searching through them can get annyoing :P
      it's a lot more comfortable to just get the nzb-files
    • 3Den, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37Sshh....

      The first rule of usenet is DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.
    • ScottMaximus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Shhhhhhhhhhh


      Quiet. We're still "Reading News" on Usenet!
  • Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Hmm, we're getting a quasi-digg-effect already after this few diggs (around 36).... This has to be some kind of record. (Site is kind of on-and-off at the moment, it keeps exceeding CPU limitations rather than bandwidth ones.)
    • cmiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Digg eats WordPress blogs alive... always has, always will.
  • Crest444, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota

    Please contact this site's webmaster.

    Wait a few minutes and use your browser's "Back" button or click here to try again.
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    If you are the webmaster, your account may have exceeded for one or more of the following reasons:
    Your site has used more than 20% of the cpu.
    Your account has too many processes running at the same time.
    Your site was consuming too many resources. This happens on occassion to very busy sites that have inefficient scripts running.
  • matthall28, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Mirror
    http://tinyurl.com/tpf9z
  • oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It's DOWN. All the caches liked to by duggmirror.com cached the page after it was Digg-abused. Use the tinyurl link above.

    Boo: Forgive me for being a grammar-nazi, but the 1st paragraph is just plain annoying. This guy sounds like a teenager.
    • oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13NOT WORTH A READ unless you are interested in this guy's (very) short list of "illegal websites". Not Diggworthy. For sure don't spend more than 60 seconds perusing this page.

      This is basically just a how-to for laypersons interested in stealing media-content, but who haven't been involved in this before. It doesn't go into any detail about which sites are better for anonymity, breadth or depth of content, speed of acquisition, etc. Could have absorbed this content in 6 delicio.us links.

      The author doesn't talk about IRC or newsgroups or FTP sites or dedicated P2P apps (except for the BitTorrent protocol). The first paragraph is a little bit of a mis-nomer (sp?).
    • Modulo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the guy is obviously a noob just trying to get some adsense traffic going, he didn't even mention dc++, waste, darknets, the HARM protocol, wrmhole, viperpit, MAXice, TrePAN. he hadn't even heard of frickin astalavista and that's been around since forever
    • Omicron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3agreed oxyrubber.

      this guy doesn't list any sites that are useful whatsoever for getting free content... other than torrentspy, which involves torrents. his article is supposed to help you find SITES that offer content rather than torrents. so let's go through the rest of them:

      dailyepisodes - doesn't exist, probably never did. there is no content at all on the site, just spammed links

      allofmp3.com - there's nothing FREE about this site whatsoever. and it's practially worthless if you can't use visa/mastercard which he mentions in his article. i guess amex is the way to go?

      dailymotion.com - a wannabe youtube. anything you find on here, you will find on youtube. guaranteed.

      this is spam people. mark it as so and stop digging things just because everyone else diggs them.
  • SystmBetatester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3not the best list ive seen... the only one i actually use it probably daily motion to watch shows on the fly, while downloading higher quality versions over BT.
  • noeljohnhoward, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3I WANTED PORN

    ;)
  • Rikkochet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"There are only a fraction of the illegal websites there was not more than 5 years ago. It is so easy to get software now a days from torrents and IRC sites it’s ridiculous."


    I'm not even sure what to do with that sentence, if it is one.
    • cowbellthunder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It took me a while to digest it as well - I think it should read

      "Only a fraction of the illegal websites exist compared to the number of illegal websites that existed 5 years ago."

      It is irrelevant to the article, and is by all means a ***** sentence.
    • i440, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0”I'm not even sure what to do with that sentence, if it is one.“

      <lame>Actually, those would be two sentences. LOLROFL.</lame>
  • DeathtoG4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8DailyEpisodes.com
    TorrentSpy.com
    allofmp3.com
    dailymotion.com
  • Spamiclese, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This just in. Poster needs English lessons.
    • jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Yes, use the master language better. We rule the world after all.
  • aproxia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As long as there is money to be made, there will be people willing to break the laws to make it.

    Impose rules and regulations against companies such as Napster in the US, and their counterparts will sprout up in the safe havens of overseas countries that US courts can't reach.

    So what can be done to stem the proliferation of copyright infringement? Who cares, just enjoy the free ***** in the "piracy of your own home".


  • gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12For the last time,
    allofmp3 is NOT illegal.
    • DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I wonder if it's legal for Visa and Mastercard to deny them service though?
    • ScottMaximus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2If it isn't truly illegal, Can you actually say that you're compensating the artist buying a track for 4 cents?
    • Monoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ScottMaximus,

      Can you actually say that you're compensating the artist for buying a track for 1 dollar (or more)? No

      Unless you are paying the artist directly you have to trust that the seller is legally honoring a contract they have with the artist. Personally I would prefer to pay the artist directly. The music industry is in it to make money for themselves, not for the artists. If you think otherwise, think again.

      The online music buying models we have today are evolving. Allofmp3 shows it can be done and that consumers are willing to buy music online for the right price and without DRM. Consumers are also willing to pay more for better quality.

      The right model for today is probably somewhere between iTunes and AllofMP3.
  • ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2wow.
    lame recommendations.

    "allofmp3 is NOT illegal"
    Um, ya. Whatever you need to make yourself feel better.
  • kidhero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7a whole lot of fluff

    LAME
  • techykid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2warez-bb.org and a rapidshare premium account pretty much cater to all the needs..
  • Kitarist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1nice post
  • wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love the unintential "share and enjoy" reference at the end.
  • LordC, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"There are only a fraction of the illegal websites there was not more than 5 years ago." Grammer?
    • Blake3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Spelling?

      (It's grammar, btw)
    • h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, there's a good 10 times more. A lot of them are invite-only now. I guess you weren't invited.
  • Pignanelli, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2@ [allofmp3 has] "taken legal action against these credit card companies for their recent service denial."

    That's a laugh! Are they shocked that somebody would do something without any legal right whatsoever?? Poor babies!!

    It reaffirms my faith that there IS some justice in the world...
  • Annotated, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7NO ONE SEEMS TO GET IT!!!! This is a spam article. The FIRST site mentioned (dailyepisodes.com) has nothing but ads on it. It NEVER had content. It was registered less than one month ago - Sept. 25, 2006. http://whois.domaintools.com/dailyepisodes.com

    Granted, the guy who spawned this spam, then managed to get it to the front of Digg is pretty clever. Well, not that clever. But clever enough to scam quite a few people, it seems.

  • h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Blogspam isn't news *****
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where's 24 in those links?
  • Uhrzeitlich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"There are only a fraction of the illegal websites there was not more than 5 years ago."

    Is that English?
  • ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Best Of? Hardly true! There are so many untapped illegal resources for movies, mp3 and apps out there. All you have do is make a quick search in google: 'blog download music rapidshare' and bingo...u have found all the stuff ull ever need and wanted...
  • ReallyChili, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. Was this headline written by a retard?
  • growingbrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My PC got infected by SpyWare when I visisted packetnews.com. Anyone else had the same problem?
  • 3478512690, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For everyone who think Torrentspy is good, I tried it before. It's pretty good, except for the fact that there's porn ads places. Everything else is nice...
  • youserials, on 05/16/2008, -0/+0missing there serial number database to get any software you want. http://www.youserials.com
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