Archive for the 'P2P File Sharing' Category

Tyndale ‘Bible on CD’ Dramatized Audio Bible Old and New Testaments is Continuing to Spread on Emule!

Monday, November 20th, 2006

The Tyndale ‘Bible on CD’ Dramatized Audio Bible Old and New testaments, which is functionally equivilant of a non-DRM MP3 PC-only (and steroes than can read MP3-filled DVD-ROMs) version of Holy Bible: New Living Translation – New & Old Testament on DVD, is continuing to spread on Emule! 110-120 sources for the new testament, 100-110 sources for old testament. The original filename, and all versions of my filename are being drowned out by VeryCD’s filename, and Chinese (Both VeryCD and non-VeryCD users) and VeryCD mod (Emule mod made specifically for the Chinese language) users in other countries are 90% of the people in my upload queue for these two archives, so I guess don’t underestimate the usage and publicity of indexing sites like VeryCD (Emule) and Pirate Bay (BitTorrent; Also got Dead-Donkey and FuckTheInterNet, both ED2K sites). My Favorite GBA ROMs (122MB, only 24 ROMs, completely me-personal choice) and Area 51 2003 release is not on any indexing site, so I have >100 source releases (>400 for GBA ROMs) completely on my own without a full-broadband connection (VZW NationalAcess / BroadbandAccess). I also am the releaser of the Orbiter 2006 Edition (core and all non-redundant official-site optional add-ons) and that is at 60-70 sources, and this file is legal, not even gray.

Oh yeah for the paper bibles, the HardCover version of the NLT Life Application Bible (Tyndale) is $26.39 at Amzon.com, or you can buy them by the case (case of 12) at a unit cost of $19.20 at Bibles at Cost.

Afghanistan on Emule!!

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Afghan in the upload queue. Never seen anybody from Afghanistan before on Emule! He wants the SQL Server Master CD – Every article ever published on SQL Server Magazine. This version is old, September 2003. They are still releasing semi-annual CDs, so you can buy new ones with all articles (including web-only exclusives) from 1999 to sometime in fall 2006. The screenie also has a person in Zimbabwe. Taken 10/28/2006.
Emule - Afghan in the Upload Queue

Afghan’s user card. LowID / firewalled. Any man’s guess on whether it is a US soldier, common citizen, government, or terrorist. I don’t care either way, but I do passively prefer it to be a common citizen. Taken 10/28/2006.
Emule - Afghan's User Card

An extra misc screenie of me downloading astronomy / astrophysics book bundle archives. Taken 10/28/2006 at the same time as the afghan screenies.
Emule - Astronomy book downloading

CopyBot and Second Life. Yippee!!

Monday, November 20th, 2006
  • IEET – Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot
  • CNet News.com – ‘Second Life’ faces threat to its virtual economy
  • Mashable – Second Life Faces Lawsuit Threat over CopyBot
  • CNet News.com Blog – The death of Second Life?
  • New World Notes – IN SEARCH OF COPYBOT’S VICTIMS
  • ZDNet Blogs – In Second Life, those on ??Candid Copybot??? aren???t smiling
  • Wired News – Second Life Will Save Copyright
  • LibSecondLife – Your World, Your Imagination, Your protocol
  • LibSecondLife – libsecondlife and CopyBot
  • Raph Koster’s Website – CopyBot
  • SLUniverse – Using CopyBot – what can and can’t be done
  • Second Life – Copyrights and Content Creation in Second Life
  • Second Life – Use of CopyBot and Similar Tools a ToS Violation
  • Second Life – Copybot Action
  • Yippee for CopyBot! If you exclude the plagarism and commercial abuse – mostly virtual but real-world from selling the linden-dollars also. I only like the Emule-equivilent benefits of it. Having anything you want for free and having no artificial-scarcity barriers on you bragging and spreading your own creations.

    Copybot seemed cool. The official version was crippled to prevent abuse. The headline making was obviously done by source-modded versions. The headlines are probably being created because people are using it to plagiarize and re-sell non-free virtual items at deep undercutting prices (Piracy-4-money). I’ll look on Emule. Hopefully I’ll remember. The mods are probably chaotic and I would probably need friends in the second life world to get a version that copies anything. I would prefer the original creator to be left intact (for attribution) and that I only get my free copy and to have the ability to give out free copies and people to be able to get free copies from me (Piracy-4-Free with no plagiarism). But I probably won’t even get to messing with CopyBot myself as Second Life needs slow-broadband and I only have semi-broadband (144kbps up/down cellphone modem) and I saturate that with Emule traffic.

    Looks like LibSecondLife is going to keep open source, but make it a lot less convenient to get the source, probably CVS-only with login required. They might as well close the source if they are *that* paranoid. It is still legal (at least for GPL, CC-by-sa, DSL) to copy the source code as an intact archive to my heart’s content if I go through the hassle of downloading source files one by one. I haven’t actually tried to bulk-download a CVS with GetRight browser, possibly with a regex-in-TextPad manipulated intermediate local html file, which is how I bulk-rip pictures from MLS, wackywet, and swimmingfullyclothed. If I do get my hands on CopyBot (the uncrippled mutant versions) preferred) I’ll share it up on Emule, along with it’s source if I can get a complete archive.

    The Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible (‘bible on CD’, ‘61 CDs’) got published on VeryCD, the Chinese ‘Pirate Bay’

    Thursday, November 16th, 2006

    The Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible (‘bible on CD’, ‘61 CDs’) got published on VeryCD, the Chinese ‘Pirate Bay‘ servicing the EDonkey (Emule) network, on 10/29/2006!

  • VeryCD Page – Original Chinese
  • VeryCD Page – English / Babel Fish (AltaVista) Translated
  • VeryCD Page – English / Google Translated
  • VeryCD caused the files to explode in popularity!! From 4-12 total sources and 1-4 complete sources for the old testament to 6-18 total sources and 3-8 complete sources for the new testament to 50-75 total sources and 25-35 complete sources for the old testament and 75-100 total sources and 35-50 complete sources for the new testament. I have been seeding them as a persistant permashare for a year and a half but I am not the actual releaser though, but their were at least two instances that I know that my seeding prevented the old testament dying on the network (0 complete sources for more than a few days straight.

    The person who submitted this to VeryCD is advertising the fact that these archives, unpacked, will fit snugly on a single DVD!! With 30-50 megs the spare for several PDF bible translations. Now this is what you call flooding China (and Chinese abroad, and the rest of the world) with the word of God (despite organized religion being illegal in China and massive copyright violations)!!

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    I added the old testament to my alienware’s download list at the hotel in Safford (because the HD partition didn’t have room to store & share it) to verify its chinese demographics on 2006-11-11:
    Emule - Tyndale Bible on CD Dramatized NLT Old Testament Audio Bible Download seeds and peers 2006-11-11

    All the chinese in my Upload Queue 2006-11-11
    Emule - Tyndale Bible on CD Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Upload Queue Full of Chinese

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    Upload Queue full of chinese (and chinese abroad, marked by the VeryCD tag in the User Name) at home on my Dell after I got home from Safford 2006-11-13, sorted by File, Score, Country
    Emule - Tyndale Bible on CD Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Upload Queue Full of Chinese

    Upload Queue full of chinese (and chinese abroad, marked by the VeryCD tag in the User Name) at home on my Dell after I got home from Safford 2006-11-13, sorted by File, Country, Score
    Emule - Tyndale Bible on CD Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Upload Queue 2

    Emule Servers (Lugdunum eserver) inside China (Chinese IP Addresses)
    Emule - Chinese ED2K Servers

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    Here are ED2K Links to Tyndale Bible on CD Dramatized NLT Audio Bible as Presented by VeryCD (AICH but no full hashset):

  • ???????????-NLT???.-.?????.-.?????????????.-.Audio.Bible.-.New.Living.Translation.NLT-Old.Testament.-.Dramatized.-.Mp3.rar
  • ???????????-NLT???.-.D???.-.?????????????.-.Audio.Bible.-.New.Living.Translation.NLT-New.Testament.-.Dramatized.-.Mp3.rar
  • Here are ED2K Links to Tyndale Bible on CD Dramatized NLT Audio Bible with the filenames AICH hash and full hash set from my own shares:

  • Religion Holy Christian Church – ??????? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????- – Audio Bible – New Living Translation NLT – New Testament – Dramatized – Mp3.rar
  • Religion Holy Christian Church – ??????? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????- – Audio Bible – New Living Translation NLT – Old Testament – Dramatized – Mp3.rar
  • Here are ED2K Links to Tyndale Bible on CD Dramatized NLT Audio Bible with the filenames as they were when I downloaded it from Emule myself a year and a half ago (I did not repeat the full hash-set so use the two above):

  • Bible – New Living Translation – Old Testament – Audio Mp3.rar
  • Bible – New Living Translation – New Testament – Audio Mp3.rar
  • The NLT, NASB, NIV got pulled from Biiible.com; Translation Copyright summary; Get Biiible’s NLT NASB NIV PDF on Emule

    Thursday, November 16th, 2006

    In the last month or two, the New Living Translation (NLT), NIV, and NASB was pulled from Biiible.com. Looks like the copyright mafia are in the bible world too. I’m surprised they still have the Amplified bible (AMP). The NLT is not available on Gospelcom.net also. Probably unfair royalty demands.

  • JohnHurt.com – More PD translations – english and non
  • Biiible.com (Can not afford royalties for AMP, NASB, NLT, MSG)
  • Gospelcom.net Bible Gateway (Can afford royalties for AMP, NASB, MSG, but no NLT :( )
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    I have these 3 translations and the other 13 remaining translations (+apocrypha) shared on Emule P2P!! Available in PDF, DOC, RTF, and TXT. I created the RTF and TXT versions myself off of the DOC version. They have been up on the ED2K network for over a year. The Audio bible NLT and NIV PDFs were up already (I got the audio bible from Emule; didn’t rip myself, but I am the one of the most reliable seeds) but I am the effective releaser for all the other translations for PDF and all of them for the PDF combo-archives, DOC, RTF, TXT, and Java (Both single and combo).

  • My download page – direct download plus my emule share list grouped by category
  • My Emule Share list page grouped by upload priority
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    You can still get to the ‘removed versions’ on Biiible.com. You just have to hack the querystring (you have to re-hack with each new search).

    from
    http://www.biiible.com/dispchapt.php?instring=Revelation%2011&ver=NKJV&book=Revelation&chapter=11
    to
    http://www.biiible.com/dispchapt.php?instring=Revelation%2011&ver=LOT&book=Revelation&chapter=11

    or

    from
    http://www.biiible.com/searchresults.php?begin=0&instring=take+heaven&ver=NKJV&lookin=
    to
    http://www.biiible.com/searchresults.php?begin=0&instring=take+heaven&ver=NLT&lookin=

    The Querystring to hack is ver=[xxx] where that is one of the elements of the set (AMP ASV BBE DARBY DRB KJ21 KJV KJVSP NAB NASB NIV NKJV NLT WBST WEB YLT). NLT, NIV, NASB are the ones that got removed. For both of these exmamples, the only thing being changed is ver=NKJV to ver=NLT

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    These two links has a survey of several english translations – descriptions, opinions, copyright status.

  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Bible – Which English translation of the Holy Bible is best?
  • Bibles – different versions, translations, etc. (Scroll down past first table – mentions explicitly and copyright owner squabbling and greed in relation to the amplified version)
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    Here is my summary of the translation survey

    Copyrighted with permission request for bulk distribution or large-audiance hosting granted only when backed by dollars and red-tape (Only AMP remains on Biiible.com and they supposedly have the most viscous copyright lawyers):

  • AMP – Amplified Bible
  • MSG – The Message
  • NASB – New American Standard Bible
  • NIV – New International Version
  • NLT – New Living Translation
  • Copyrighted (KJV21, NAB, NJV21 are hosted by Biiible.com and they may loose them along with AMP soon)

  • ALT – Analytical-Literal Translation
  • CEV – Contemporary English Version
  • GW – God’s Word
  • KJV21 – 21st Century King James
  • NAB – New American Bible
  • NCV – New Century Version
  • NET – New English Translation
  • NIrV – New International Reader’s Version
  • NJB – New Jerusalem Bible
  • NKJV – New King James Version
  • Public Domain (Biiible.com has all but Weymouth; JohnHurt.com has all of them but no search)

  • ASV – American Standard Version
  • BBE – Bible in Basic English
  • DARBY – Darby Translation
  • DRB – Douay-Rheims Bible
  • KJVSP – King James Spanish
  • KJV – King James Versio
  • WEB – World English Bible
  • WEBST – Websters Bible
  • Weymouth New Testament
  • YLT – Young’s Literal Translation
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    Here are my Direct Download links for the composite archives for biiible.com and johnhurt.com’s bible content and some other bible sources.

    Here are the ED2K links (for Emule) for the composite archives for biiible.com and johnhurt.com’s bible content plus the Tyndale Audio Bible and some other bible sources.

    Non-P2P DRM / Copyright and Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-11-03

    Friday, November 3rd, 2006
  • P2PNet – CIA adopts p2p file sharing
  • ITWorld – U.S. intelligence community’s wiki aids info sharing
  • San Francisco Chronicle – U.S. using Wikipedia software for intelligence reports
  • I don’t really consider Wikis P2P file sharing, but it is still cool. They are using the open source WikiMedia software that powers the WikiPedia and many other wikis on the web.

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  • Slyck – Universal Cracks Down on Fan Art
  • SerenityStuff.com – And so it begins?- heads up, CafePress people
  • Prospero Forums – Universal’s Legal Action ~ Fans Beware
  • Affinitive – Case Study: Universal Pictures / Serenity
  • P2PNet – Firefly Fans vs Universal
  • SlashDot – Firefly Fans Fight Back Against Universal
  • The MAFIAA strikes again! Universal studios flinging out letters to those who make fan art of the Serentity/Firefly movie and movie series. Looks like some revenue was being made though, probably at very little profit, however. This is funny – protect those who paid hefty fees to make official products. Universal apparently percieve fan-art as a threat to those licensees’s sales and willingness to pay such prohibitive fees, even if such fan art provides free marketing.

    P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-11-03 – non-RIAA

    Friday, November 3rd, 2006
  • Slyck – German P2P Traffic on the Rise
  • The Digital Music WebLog – Despite legal efforts P2P traffic keeps growing
  • Answer & Counterclaim Court Doc (PDF)
  • They were aressting people and all too. Oh well for the RIAA.

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  • Arizona Daily Star – In Net era, centralized firms need to adapt
  • Starfish seems like a cool analagy for open source P2P file sharing. I originally thought of scurrying, rapidly reproducing cockroaches as the analogy of open source P2P file sharing. Fully regenerative starfish is just as cool. And the GPL V2 was made up in 1992!! The cockroaches and starfish is only half of it though. The non-profit tendancy of open-source exploits the ultimate loophole of tort law – No money or assets to take in the first place!

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  • SearchSecurity.com – Instant messaging attacks rise in October
  • SC Magazine – Enterprises beware: IM attacks break record, again
  • IT News Online – Akonix Tracks 88 Attacks over IM Networks in October
  • If you arn’t looking for standalone cracks, watching the file size is plenty sufficient to avoid malware. Legit standalone cracks (NOCD Cracks, keygens, PatchCracks) is often the same size as the malware, and virus scanners often don’t pick it up, even with up to date definitions, so you have to be careful when downloading these. Malware labeled as Sims2 No-CD Cracks has a particularly bad infestation of false-labelled malware.

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  • P2PNet – Music downoads legal in Spain
  • Guardian Unlimited – Spanish court rules free music downloads are legal for own use
  • Typically Spanish – Judge says sharing music over the Internet is not a crime in Spain
  • Uploaders are usually targeted for lawsuits and prosecutions, hence the appeal. Unfortunately, the target should be ‘long term seeders’ and ‘releasers’, as every non-harmful Emule and BitTorrent user is an uploader because of the swarming / sharing of completed chunks of an incompletly downloaded file.

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  • Slyck – LimeWire Beta Supports BitTorrent
  • The BitTorrent in GetRight works well. Should work well in LimeWire also.

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  • Slyck – Giganews Introduces Download Encryption
  • Usenet is joining the bandwagon of encryption and obfuscation!

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  • Slyck – LimeWire Bears Brunt of Identity Theft Concerns
  • Aversion – LimeWire Linked to Identity Theft
  • Blogger News Network – How P2P Software like Limewire Compromises Personal and Financial Information
  • P2PNet – Denver PD attacks LimeWire
  • “So how does a tax return document become indexed on, for example, the Gnutella network?” I agree with Slyck as one of the possibilities – Stupid, but generous users who just blanket-share their whole hard drives. There also could be malware that works like Antinny. This is the least probable, but AntInny worked well with the Whinny P2P client as it could interact with out out-of-process and randomly mark folders for sharing. There is also much malware that is distrubuted as fakes on the P2P networks, which mostly only stupid users would get as it is often detectable by the woefully small file size. Gnutella-fake spread spyware, once run, would independently scan for passwords and confidential docs and ship them to its master. Trajan/Spyware fakes are spread on BitTorrent and Edonkey (Emule) as well. The big archives are often clean, but their is no gaurentee – their are noob groups and individuals releasing files too. Looking for NoCD cracks is often a different story as they are usually in the same size-range as the malware.

    P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-11-03 – RIAA

    Friday, November 3rd, 2006
  • BetaNews – BitTorrent Admin Gets 5 Months in Jail
  • TorrentFreak – BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison
  • The Inquirer – BitTorrent admin jailed for five months
  • Slyck – FinReactor and EliteTorrents
  • TheRegister (UK) – BitTorrent man jailed for five months
  • PCPro (UK) – First successful BitTorrent prosecution
  • DigitalSilence – BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison
  • Ars Technica – First BitTorrent sentencing: five months in jail, $3,000
  • Its a fair sentence I think. The max is way too high. Home confinement does allow having a job and stuff. I wonder what Scott McCausland will get? Probably something similar. I got my Star Wars over a month before its theater release, from Emule!! ElliteTorrents is like, uh nothing more than a large community sharing files. Oh yeah, the Federal Bureau of Prisons will often rent a bunk in local county jail for inmates sentenced for less than 1 year.

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  • DigitalMedia Wire – Finnish BitTorrent Network Operators Convicted on Copyright Charges
  • CDFreaks – 21 Finreactor BitTorrent tracker admins fined $700,000
  • IFPI – Ground breaking verdict against 21 operators of Finnish BitTorrent network
  • PCPro (UK) – Finnish court frowns on Finreactor BitTorrent
  • Even these busts ain’t affect the concurrent user count on P2P file sharing that much.

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  • iTNews.com.au – Recording industry launches global assault on piracy
  • Still more shit going around by the IFPI’s glorious 8000 lawsuits. I actually think it is an attempt to make it seem that the lawsuits are conitnual week after week. Nope this is about the same 8,000.

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  • P2PNet – Rhode Island AG works for RIAA
  • Recording Industry vs The People – James O’Neil, Former Attorney General of Rhode Island, Acting as RIAA Local Counsel in Rhode Island
  • New strong-arm for the RIAA! James O’Neil, Former Attorney General of Rhode Island

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  • P2PNet – RIAA sues wheelchair mother
  • Recording Industry vs The People – New Contested Case in Brooklyn, Elektra v. Schwartz
  • New type of helpless victim! A whellchair mother! I like the counter-claim he he…

    P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-10-19 – non-RIAA

    Thursday, October 19th, 2006
  • Slyck – Eight Ways to Revitalize P2P
  • They have left out the ‘news’ adjective inthe first paragraph. “Times have been slow in the file-sharing world.” should be “Times have been slow for news in the file-sharing world.” and “Ask any file-sharing veteran, and they???ll attest to the relative snails pace of P2P activity” should be “Ask any file-sharing veteran, and they???ll attest to the relative snails pace of new news for P2P activity”. The articles body has some valuable advice of stickig with open source P2P clients. One should use open source software in general, not just P2P, even if it takes the RIAA lawsuits against commercial closed-source P2P clients or extraodanairy software like OpenOffice.org to ween somebody away from MS Office.

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  • P2PNet – The new, corporate BitTorrent
  • PaidContent.org – @ Mipcom: Interview With The Pirate King – Ashwin Navin Of BitTorrent
  • Bram probably got bought. It is turning corporate closed-source proprietary intellectual property. Stay away from further version of BitTorret. Use Azureus or uTorrent.

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  • P2PNet – BT’s Cohen on share ratios
  • ZeroPaid – Bram Cohen: Private Sites to Blame for Ratio Cheating.
  • I don’t mind the ratios but it should be global, not per-file. zzRatio in many Emule mods is global and in many it is conditional on leech-risk factors (powershare part files, session avg ul <10KB/sec, frindslots w/ max friendslot rate set over 3KB/sec, etc..) rather than always-on. There is no reason to 'patch' anything in open source software. The cheating clients are likely to be modded at the source-code level.

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  • Slyck – Exetel and BitTorrent Traffic
  • Slyck Forums – Full Exetel Interview
  • Exetel Forum (Australia) – Announcement
  • Basically, Exetel is throttling the collective P2P (possibly only BitTorrent) traffic to 50% of it’s up-line bandwidth capacity, rather than strict 50% of the contract download capacity for the individual client during peak hours (12 noon to 12 midnight). So if P2P traffic hits 100% of their upline capacity, clients with active P2P traffic will be throttled so their collective usage drops to 50%. Since ISPs usually have downline capacities (sum of bandwidth allowances of their customers) of 5 to 15 times their upline capacities (their actual capacity), this can be substantial. They also appear to have static limits for each user, but it is very generous – 30GB per day! I have no idea if they will be throttling uploads or not. P2P is optimiallly syncrhonous with upload/download (leechers make legit users a moderately upload-heavy) and some people will leave their Emule or BitTorrent seeding when they have nothing to download for the current moment (even for a few days straight!).

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  • Emule-Project.net Forums – Do You Want To Recover The List Of Servers?, Real and Fake servers list
  • Here is a great individually itemized list of fake servers. There are many versions in the first mega-post. CTL-F Search for “Clean list for the main subject…” for the scrollable box with a list updated on 2006-10-07.

    P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-10-19 – RIAA

    Thursday, October 19th, 2006
  • P2PNet – IFPI revives DFC DRM
  • TechNews – Digital File Check
  • IFPI – IFPI welcomes internet charity’s ‘Know IT All for Parents’ campaign
  • Digital File Check download site
  • It also appears that the RIAA is adding a requirment to use their new DRM scheme, ‘Digital File Check’, as a standard condition along with the $3500-4500 standard protection payment to the settlement to their ‘extort ‘em all’ program.

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  • MediaCorp Channel NewsAsia – 25 new cases of illegal music file-sharing handed over to police
  • My total known clients for Singapore has always been 1-3, except on the individual 5/31 entry where it was 14. I havn’t seen any major changes in the patterns of singapore Emule clients. Oh well. Not even less currupt totalitarian goverments (that permit any civilian internet use at all) can control file sharing. Since the RIAA was at the helm, only strategic artists and albums were targeted. If it wasn’t ‘on the list’, it don’t matter, as the governments have so many police, judges, and even congresspeople themselves using file sharing to download copyright-illegal (and maybe other forms of illegal too), and legal content too (minority though), that no goverment that doesn’t clamp all internet use has really bothered to enforce copyright on their own accord, But then again, in the USA, I think only murder is prosecuted by the goverment on it’s own accord without ‘victim’ direction (if the ‘victim’ isn’t the government).

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  • P2PNet – Big Music ramps up anti-p2p war
  • BetaNews – IFPI Sues 8,000 P2P File Swappers
  • BBC News (UK) – File sharers facing legal action
  • PC World – New Round of P-to-P Suits
  • EarthTimes.org – Fresh wave of lawsuits filed by IFPI against P2P file sharers
  • Geek.com – Recording industry sues 8,000
  • Anteara News (Indonesia/Inglish) – IFPI widens worldwide legal offensive on illegal music file shares
  • Slyck – IFPI Launches New Round of Legal Actions
  • IFPI – Recording industry launches fresh wave of actions against illegal file-sharing
  • TorrentFreak – More (of the same) Filesharing Lawsuits in Europe
  • P2PNet – IFPI bans profs from conference
  • It appears that the RIAA is expanding into Brazil, Mexico, and Poland with their silly and inneffective and often mis-targeted lawsuits. I wonder how accurate ‘uploaders’ are? People who never clean out their incoming folders maybe? If the ‘research’ is from a immobile cabinet in a datacenter with fixed IP addressess, the uploaders won’t be using ip blockers, increasing the probability that the ‘uploader’ is a stupid or lazy person who doesn’t clean out their incoming folder. Maybe the fake servers Nederlands Geslacht and SexyBitch.nl were used for the ED2K lawsuit victims? These servers claim that they are in the Netherlands, have consistent stats, but what gave them away is that their IPs are assigned to the UK. The IPs are 81.3.87.170 – 81.3.87.171 . Connecting to these servers will cause your shares to be published to the RIAA, BPI (RIAA Britain), or IFPI (RIAA I don’t feel like setting up an individual extortion satellite office in this [xxx] country). They were sluggish to be recognized as fake servers because only Emule mods that supported country flags would spot this discrepency easily (UK IP, Netherlands claim). Hey maybe the IFPI RIAA division doesn’t have any pedophiles on their legal staff he he….

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  • P2PNet – RIAA blows Wilke case
  • Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA Drops Wilke Case in Chicago
  • “The RIAA’s initial response to the summary judgment motion, prior to the dismissal, had been to cross-move for discovery, indicating that it did not have enough evidence with which to defeat Mr. Wilke’s summary judgment motion.” — This is all so typical. No evidence. You know what to do if you get a summons but happen to be garnishable! ****************************************

  • AfterDawn – RIAA: Most P2P users aren’t aware of shared files
  • Recording Industry vs The People – RIAA Admitted in November 2004 testimony that most P2P users aren’t even aware that files are able to be shared
  • A RIAA admissions that the bulk of their lawsuit targets are on the less computer-literate of the P2P user stock. Emule and Azeurus do not automatically scan your hard drive for content. But many users are unaware that thir incomplete downloads and their incoming files are mandatorily shared combined with the fact that they never organize or move their downloads (worse with Emule than with BitTorrent). Also Kazaa shares its incoming folder by default, but can be disabled (bad for network), but only by completely disabling sharing altogether (even worse for network). I have never used the LimeWire, FrostWire, or BearShare Gnutella clients.

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  • Afterdawn – RIAA lawsuit hits family with no computer or Internet access
  • VNUNet – RIAA sues computer-less family for piracy
  • Afterdawn – RIAA sues woman that has no computer
  • Some older articles on some of the RIAA’s mis-targeting. A abandoned operational wi-fi router that got hijacked, and apartment tennant turnover (actual intendend defendant moved out)..

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  • P2PNet – LimeWire vs RIAA for 2008?
  • Legal Doc – Arista v. Lime Wire Case Management Order*
  • Looks like the the grand LimeWire trial will be between Q4 2007 and Q2 2008.

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  • TheLocal – Two Swedes fined for file sharing
  • Looks like they got fines, but the loophole-lockout wasn’t completely sucessful. IFPI/RIAA is going to continue pushing because if they can bribe the prosecuter better (And making sure Mr. DA isn’t himself leeching away off of Pirate Bay torrents), they could get more than 4 shares (‘counts)’) prosecuted to try to get some jail time next time.

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  • Recording Industry vs The People – How the RIAA Litigation Process Works
  • Here is some detailed information on the behind-the scenes of the RIAA’s bulk litigation process. There is a lot of loophole exploitation to turn IP Address / filename pairs into names and addresses. Most lawyers and defendants are too ignorant to avoid default judgement for the ISP subpoena. There is a dire lack of notices to the defendant at this stage. The settlement part doesn’t describe the outsource process or who the contractors (such as ‘Settlement Support Center’) are, but the settlement amount is usually $3750. If you don’t settle they go to court. If you don’t show up, the average default is $750 per Exhibit A song. Exhibit A short-list will probably be no more than a dozen items as they have to have downloaded the entire file from you (if they do sue over archives, is it download a whole part or does it have to be the whole file,possibly fanned out over multiple bot-clients?). Exhibit B is mentioned as a screenshot. For Emule that is a maximum of 60 shares for 1600×1200. If they flip a wuxga screen to 1200×1920, they can probably squeeze 100 in. The word ’song’ is used a lot. Album archives and discoagraphy archives are probably completely overlooked. There is no mention on how agressive the RIAA is with post-judgement garnishment or if they persue those who agree to settle and then never pay, if it is at all possible (settlement may require immediate e-check or credit card payment like law-firm debt collections).

    P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-10-13

    Friday, October 13th, 2006
  • P2PNet – YouTube: sued into oblivion?
  • P2PNet – Is YouTube on the skids?
  • TechWeb – Analyst Firm Predicts YouTube Is ‘Goin’ Down’
  • P2PNet – Big Music wants Britanny Chan
  • P2PNet – 100,000 for Britanny Chan!
  • P2PNet – We gave up on Prohibition …
  • P2PNet – Sue kids in UK piracy suits?
  • P2PNet – RIAA Court Doc – Plaintiff’s Motion to Appoint Guardian Ad Litem and Brief in Support (No-OCR PDF)
  • P2PNet – RIAA Court Doc – Opinion and Order #1 (6 Pages)
  • P2PNet – RIAA Court Doc – Opinion and Order #2 (3 Pages)
  • This is old news by the article numbers. Din’t know the RIAA went so far as to try to sue a 12 year old girl directly, bypassing her mother, exploiting some ‘legal gaurdian’ thing to do it. Looks like they are knocking over some kids with the BPI. One of the RIAA’s lawyers must be a pedoporn / kiddy porn pervert. RIAA pedophile lawyer: “I’ll drop the case if you let me put my big pecker up your little pussy” he he…

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  • P2PNet – Big Music mobile p2p attack
  • Gaurdian Unlimited – Mobile phones open new front in war on music piracy
  • The RIAA may start sueing people sharing music over a cell phone!

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  • P2PNet – Swedish music file share case
  • TheLocal (Sweden/English) – First music file sharer prosecuted in Sweden
  • Inaugeral RIAA Lawsuit / Prosection in Sweden!

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  • y0himba.net – “Free sk0t” T-Shirts Available!
  • mafiaa.org
  • I like this: “MPAA+RIAA=MAFIAA” he he.

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  • MSNBC – Take My Music . . . Please
  • Wired Magazine – Sample the Future
  • I like creative commons. I prefere the Design Science license if the artists wishes to give away anything with ’source code’ such as the original music sheets. Creative Commons has no accomodation or source code or source scripts or source whatever.

    My Moral of P2P Network, F2F Network, and F2F Sneakernet File Sharing

    Thursday, October 12th, 2006
  • P2PNet – Big Music vs Christian file sharers
  • Christian Music Trade Association – Fewer Than 1 in 10 Teenagers Believe that Music Piracy is Morally Wrong
    (Music Piracy = ‘yes’ to both Both P2P network sharing and F2F sneakernet sharing)
  • South Florida Sun-Sentinel – Pirating Songs of Praise
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    Underoath uses file sharing ‘marketing’. “The six-member band shocked the music industry in June when its most recent album debuted at No. 2 on the nation’s pop charts despite zero airplay on mainstream commercial radio and no presence on MTV” – old fashioned copyright is for the days when only highly financed businesses could violate it enough to cause noticeable damage to a ’sale of copies’ business model, ie.. printed books before the 1990s and vinyl records before the 1970s.

    “No, because the artists are making billions of dollars any ways.” – Correction (to quoted teen) – The artist doesn’t make the billions. The Record companies do. Majorly popular artists may get several million, but their record company is getting at least a hundred times that.

    “Spread the Word vs “Thou shalt not steal” – Expand to: Encourage worship of God (or in case of the Bible, spread the Word of God or spread the gospel) vs not depriving publishers of the ability to get revenue from exclusive control of the creation and distribution of copies. In the bible, I know that the Amplified Version and the New Living Translation are full-restrictions (‘all rights reserved’) copyrighted at the isolated translated-text level. Most popular gospel music is published by RIAA-member labels and are full-restrictions copyrighted (legally, anyway)….

    “The study shows that born again Christian teens are not much different than are non-born again teens in terms of holding an anti-piracy moral position. Just 10% of Christian teens believe that copying CDs for friends and unauthorized music downloading are morally wrong, compared to 6% of non-born agains (the four-point difference barely qualified as statistically significant). Also, the proportion of pragmatists was statistically equivalent – 64% of born again Christians and 66% of non-Christians.

    One of the most troubling findings of the survey was the fact that most teens opposed to music piracy are not entirely convinced that their perspectives are correct. Just 1 in every 3 teens (36%) who take the piracy-is-wrong view said they feel very certain of that stance. That means just 1 out of every 50 American teens is strongly convinced that it is wrong to copy CDs for friends or to download music illegally. To make matters worse, two-thirds of those teens who embrace piracy (64%) are convinced of their views. “

    I think downloading an individual mp3 song or album archive or discography archive from a P2P file sharing network is morally wrong if you never purchased a copy of your own before (even if it is a vinyl record, 8-Track, cassette tape, or DRM-download; doesn’t have to be function as long as it used to function) and if you have no intention in buying it, but would buy it if the pirated copy was not available. My violation of that is was at about 20% for music (same for movies, lower for PC games, higher for non-PC games, non-game software, and books), and increasing due to my resentment of the RIAA and MPAA civil-settlement extortion and deceptive propaganda programs. It is probably about 40-50% now. I do keep my two favorite artists – Sepultura and Soulfly (Sepultura only up to Dante XXI b/c of Igor Cavalera’s departure) – 100% morally right and 100% legal.

    I think sharing a CD with or getting a CD from a friend is only wrong if the P2P moral is violated and the person I got the copy from isn’t a close friend or family member (such as classmates I barely know). I think it is perfectly ok to give away free CDs to your family and significant friends, though I know it is not what the law says, but the RIAA and MPAA are in control of the law these days.

    “copying CDs for friends and unauthorized music downloading” in the survey is a boolean AND – both must be marked ‘yes’. Kids who answered yes to one and no to the other got put into the “pragmatists” category.

    These ‘astonishing’ numbers just show how wrong the RIAA’s intent of total consumer control via monopolistic control of the supply of music is.

    (Update 2007-03-28 — Fixed 3rd Link)

    P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-10-06

    Friday, October 6th, 2006
  • P2PNet – StreamCast is liable: court ruling
  • Wired News – Judge: StreamCast Induces Piracy
  • TechDirt – Judge Agrees With RIAA; Says Illegal Activity On Morpheus Meant It Induced Infringement
  • Los Angeles Times – Creator of Morpheus Is Found Liable
  • P2PNet – Big Music wins p2p battle
  • The Register (UK) – Morpheus maker loses US case
  • I agree with TechDirt – Massive infringment, and being negligent about it – continuing development despite knowing 90-95% of shared content is copyright infringing, is not active inducement. Inducement would be in the program’s interface, the hosting website, the marketing, or even the tech support. The LA Times article mentioned tech support inducement. That would fit the supreme court ruling. I bet it was a evidence-collection motivated prank by the RIAA (like the fake Emule). I think for the tech support to be inducing, it would have to be explicit, not generic, like “if you want more elvis on the network, you have to share more elvis”, or tutoring the user to make a more intelligent search specifically for elvis, rather a generic ‘what is on the network is only what other users share” or a generic, context-less search tutorial. A denial of support if the user wants help specifically about a copyrighted item would help a lot. Open source P2P file sharing is very resistant of being nailed on tech-support inducement because their usually isn’t much, if any at all, developer-direct tech support. Well it seems that the RIAA / MPAA has reduce their standards to fighting the ability to run a legit, profitable business off of file sharing. And the non-profit sector who either refuse and resist or just hand-off the code to somebody else, continue to make P2P that transfers whole movies and discoagrphies without error and is resistant to RIAA / MPAA / mob hacker / leecher curruption.

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  • P2PNet – Dreamhost bans BitTorrent
  • BoingBoing – DreamHost is just as clueless about BitTorrent as 1and1
  • Mostly Muppet Dot Com – DreamHost and BitTorrent
  • BitTorrent has a lot of potential for bandwidth abuse. They need to look out for AMule, Lphant, and MLDonkey clients also. The people using BitTorrent to leech appear to be most of it. Some host trackers files explicitly illegal or legal. Moderation overhead is too high to control the abuse. The abuse is hogging all the bandwidth. Enough clients and especialy trackers and pig the CPU off of a shared server also. They shuld only allow standalone trackers and not clients, and they have to be remote seeded. I can’t think of a way to specifically enforce that though. They probably should just run one or more of their own private tracker servers and allow only customers to seed it. I don’t know if you can make trackers accept torrent seeds with a password without passwording all access though. I guess a local link to the file will have to be sent to an administrator for seeding on the tracker and then he’ll reply back with the .torrent file.

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  • Wired Blogs – Final Fantasy XII Leaked to Net
  • Get looking on Emule!

    My Emule Share Stats by Category and Country Breakdown for PermaShares 2006-10-04

    Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

    Aggragate Stats of PermaShares by Directory / Category

    Category Shares Shares % Power Shares Percent Power Shared Power Shares % File Size Megabytes File Size Megabytes % Session Requests Session Requests % Cumulative Requests Cumulative Requests % Sesssion Accepted Requests Session Accepted Requests % Cumulative Accepted Requests Cumulative Accepted Requests % Session Megabytes Trans Session Megabytes Trans % Cumulative Gigabytes Trans Cumulative Gigabytes Trans %
    Assimilation 38 6.5744% 0 0.0000% 0.0000% 10,599.05 42.5741% 17633 35.8555% 17881 6.6727% 1734 14.1725% 1737 1.2413% 3041.28 15.5421% 2.97 1.7636%
    Incomplete 6 1.0381% 0 0.0000% 0.0000% 3522.5 14.1491% 5436 11.0537% 5436 2.0286% 563 4.6016% 563 0.4023% 946.39 4.8364% 0.92 0.5488%
    Incoming 60 10.3806% 0 0.0000% 0.0000% 829.23 3.3308% 1356 2.7573% 3403 1.2699% 166 1.3568% 510 0.3645% 198.81 1.0160% 0.77 0.4554%
    Total TempShares 66 11.4187% 0 0.0000% 0.0000% 4,351.73 17.4799% 6,792 13.8111% 8,839 3.2985% 729 5.9583% 1,073 0.7668% 1,145.20 5.8524% 1.69 1.0042%
    Bible 135 23.3564% 133 98.5185% 39.3491% 5,601.98 22.5019% 3,394 6.9015% 30,178 11.2616% 2,449 20.0163% 24,537 17.5344% 6,031.36 30.8226% 35.55 21.1103%
    Books 18 3.1142% 1 5.5556% 0.2959% 751.36 3.0180% 3,009 6.1186% 34,689 12.9450% 470 3.8414% 8,871 6.3393% 272.37 1.3919% 11.52 6.8408%
    FileSharing 59 10.2076% 8 13.5593% 2.3669% 191.92 0.7709% 873 1.7752% 1,988 0.7419% 63 0.5149% 341 0.2437% 26.48 0.1353% 0.17 0.0987%
    Movies 38 6.5744% 18 47.3684% 5.3254% 1,274.11 5.1178% 1,163 2.3649% 20,540 7.6650% 569 4.6506% 14,747 10.5384% 495.92 2.5343% 12.96 7.6959%
    Music 5 0.8651% 5 100.0000% 1.4793% 32.88 0.1321% 45 0.0915% 583 0.2176% 45 0.3678% 504 0.3602% 38.55 0.1970% 0.78 0.4640%
    Other 50 8.6505% 50 100.0000% 14.7929% 93.32 0.3748% 775 1.5759% 12,128 4.5258% 758 6.1953% 9,384 6.7059% 566.91 2.8971% 7.55 4.4833%
    Pictures 40 6.9204% 38 95.0000% 11.2426% 320.65 1.2880% 2,506 5.0958% 28,310 10.5645% 2,046 16.7225% 22,162 15.8372% 3,153.92 16.1178% 28.82 17.1139%
    ROMs 9 1.5571% 5 55.5556% 1.4793% 259.06 1.0406% 7,432 15.1124% 63,198 23.5838% 690 5.6396% 22,102 15.7944% 281.53 1.4387% 22.56 13.3965%
    RPGs 35 6.0554% 15 42.8571% 4.4379% 606.41 2.4358% 1,996 4.0587% 22,951 8.5647% 1,170 9.5627% 14,424 10.3076% 2,590.72 13.2396% 22.73 13.4975%
    Warez 72 12.4567% 54 75.0000% 15.9763% 801.42 3.2191% 3,391 6.8954% 26,140 9.7548% 1,373 11.2219% 19,623 14.0228% 1,873.92 9.5765% 20.13 11.9536%
    WebRip 13 2.2491% 11 84.6154% 3.2544% 11.67 0.0469% 169 0.3436% 547 0.2041% 139 1.1361% 431 0.3080% 49.82 0.2546% 0.97 0.5778%
    Total PermaShares 474 82.0069% 338 71.3080% 100.0000% 9,944.78 39.9460% 24,753 50.3335% 241,252 90.0288% 9,772 79.8692% 137,126 97.9919% 15,381.50 78.6055% 163.74 97.2322%
    Grand Total 578 338 58.4775% 24,895.56 49,178 267,972 12,235 139,936 19,567.98 168.40


    Notes:

    Country Breakdown for people in my upload queue requesting a Perma-Share. (Does not include Incoming folder tempshares or incomplete part files)

    I am at the waning end of a start trek movie DVD leech-a-thon. The first sample had 4 xvids left to download (all 80+% completed). At the second sample, there is only one and it is amost done, 98%. In the third sample, all the DVDs are finished and Emule is mostly uploading permashares and incoming-tempshares only. The Upgrade from MorphXT 8.10 to 8.13-8.14 (all 3 based on Emule 0.47a) increase my average upload speed from 9KB/sec to 12KB/sec. 8.14 to 9.00 (9.0 is based on 0.47c) has increased it to just under 15KB/sec. The Country count stats are Maximum of the Mornings of 10/3/2006 to 10/4/2006 and the Evening of 10/3/2006. The file request summary is the intact sumary for the number that actually got used.


    Argentina 8 – 1 Other Warez, 1 RPG Book, 2 Orbiter,
    1 Physics Books, 1 GBA ROMs, 2 N64 ROMs
    Australia 2 – 1 RPG Book, 1 GBA ROMs
    Austria 1 – 1 SNES ROMs
    Bangladesh 1 – 1 Physics Book
    Belgium 2 – 1 RPG Book, 1 Orbiter
    Bolivia 1 – 1 GBA ROMs
    Bosnia & Herzegovina 1 – 1 GBA ROMs
    Brazil 17 – 2 Area 51, 1 Misc Warez, 3 RPG Books, 1 SQL Book,
    1 Physics Books, 1 Bible, 5 GBA ROMs, 3 N64 ROMs
    Canada 2 – 2 Physics Books
    Chile 2 – 1 GBA ROMs, 1 N64 ROMs
    China 6 – 4 Bible, 1 GB ROMs, 1 Other Warez
    Columbia 1 – 1 N64 ROMs
    Croatia 2 – 1 RPG Book, 1 FileSharing
    Denmark 1 – 1 RPG Book
    Ecuador 1 – 1 Physics Books
    Estonia 1 – 1 RPG Book
    Finland 2 – 1 GBA ROMs, 1 FanFilm
    France 24 – 1 Misc Movie, 1 FileSharing, 1 Physics Books
    1 SQL Book, 1 Other Warez, 1 Pictures, 5 Orbiter,
    10 GBA ROMs, 1 SNES ROMs, 2 FanFilms
    Germany 11 – 1 Misc Movie, 1 Physics Books, 2 Pictures,
    2 RPG Books, 1 SQL Book, 1 GBA ROMs, 3 N64 ROMs
    Greece 3 – 2 Physics Books, 1 FanFilm
    Hong Kong 1 – 1 N64 ROMs
    Hungary 1 – 1 Orbiter
    India 2 – 1 Physics Book, 1 SQL Book
    Islamic Repub Iran 4 – 1 Physics Books, 1 RPG Book, 2 SQL Books
    Isreal 8 – 2 Physics Books, 1 Misc, 1 RPG Book,
    1 SQL Book, 1 SNES ROMs, 2 FanFilms
    Italy 31 – 2 Area51; 1 Misc, 2 RPG Books, 1 Other Warez,
    3 FileSharing, 1 Pictures, 5 Orbiter, 1 SQL Book
    10 GBA ROMs, 2 N64 ROMs, 1 SNES ROMs, 2 FanFilms
    Japan 1 – 1 Bible
    Lithuania 1 – 1 SQL Book;
    Malaysia 3 – 1 Bible, 1 GBA ROMs, 1 SQL Book
    Malta 1 – 1 Orbiter
    Mexico 5 – 1 FanFilm, 1 SQL Book, 1 GBA ROMs, 2 N64 ROMs
    Netherlands 3 – 1 Misc, 1 RPG Book, 1 SQL Book
    Netherlands Antilles 1 – 1 SQL Book
    New Zealand 1 – 1 SQL Book
    Norway 2 – 1 Physics Books, 1 Orbiter
    Not Applicable 6 – 3 Physics Books, 1 Pictures, 1 RPG Book, 1 GBA ROMs
    Pakistan 1 – 1 Physics Books
    Panama 1 – 1 Orbiter
    Paraguay 1 – 1 Bible
    Peru 2 – 1 SQL Book, 1 Physics Books
    Poland 8 – 1 Other Warez, 4 GBA ROMs, 2 N64 ROMs, 1 SQL Book
    Portugal 4 – 1 RPG Book; 1 Orbiter, 1 SQL Book, 1 GBA ROMs
    Republic of Korea 6 – 5 Bible, 1 Physics Books
    Romania 2 – 2 Physics Books
    Russian Federation 2 – 2 Physics Books
    Serbia Montenegro 1 – 1 AbandonwareGame
    Singapore 2 – 1 Orbiter, 1 GBA ROMs
    Slovenia 1 – 1 Bible
    Spain 43 – 1 Other Warez, 2 Area51, 4 FileSharing, 3 Physics Books
    1 RPG Books, 1 Pictures, 5 Orbiter, 1 Misc, 1 Bible,
    18 GBA ROMs, 1 GBC ROMs, 3 N64 ROMs, 1 SNES ROMs, 1 FanFilm
    Sweden 3 – 1 Physics Books, 1 Bible, 1 GBC ROMs
    Switzerland 1 – 1 SQL Book
    Taiwan 4 – 1 Other Warez, 1 Bible, 1 GBA ROMs, 1 N64 ROMs
    Turkey 2 – 1 Other Warez, 1 GBA ROMs
    Uganda 1 – 1 Bible
    Ukraine 2 – 1 FileSharing, 1 SQL Book
    United Kingdom 7 – 3 Bible, 1 GBA ROMs, 1 GBC ROMs,
    1 FanFilm, 1 WebRip
    United States 25 – 6 RPG Books, 3 Physics Books, 5 SQL Books,
    3 Orbiter, 3 Bible, 1 GBA ROMs
    1 N64 ROMs, 2 SNES ROMs, 1 Other Warez
    Uraguay 1 – 1 N64 ROMs
    Venezuela 2 – 1 SQL Book, 1 SNES ROMs

    Emule (and BitTorrent) Users! Protect yourself from Fake Sabotage or Spy ED2K / Donkey Servers (Lugdunum eserver, Metamachine dserver), NetSentry, Cyberverse, MediaSentry, BayTSP, RIAA, MPAA, or your Government (China, Iran…)!

    Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

    Fake Servers

    2 new fakes with UK (United Kingdom) IP Addresses just popped up about a week and a half ago. They should be in bluetack by now. The Morph list (better than BlueTack, has a lot of bluetack in it) should have it in its bi-monthly to monthly update. Here is a fake server list in ascending chronological order (oldest first):

    IP Start, IP End, Security Level (typically 0), Description
    212.150.248.0 – 212.150.248.31, 0, Isreal Fake Servers
    72.34.98.1 – 72.34.98.23, 0 , USA Fake Servers
    209.204.61.0-209.204.61.191, 0, New USA Fake Servers
    72.51.35.78-72.51.35.78, 0, New USA Fake Servers
    72.51.37.104-72.51.37.111, 0, New USA Fake Servers
    72.51.37.237-72.51.37.237, 0, New USA Fake Servers
    72.51.38.136-72.51.38.143, 0, New USA Fake Servers
    72.51.39.144-72.51.39.159, 0, New USA Fake Servers August 2006
    81.3.87.170 – 81.3.87.171, 0, United Kingdom / UK Fake Servers Late Sept 2006 – Nederlands Geslacht and SexyBitch.nl

    Oh yeah, on a tangent, their is a donkey server in Iran (Iranian IP Address) that is fairly consistant! It is called PersianMule (I don’t know if it is legit or fake). It appears to be on an old windows box running eserver 17.10. The user count and user limit are in the hundreds and the # of shared files is 1500-2000.
    ed2k://|server|82.99.247.19|4230|/

    IP Blockers

    The easiest broad defense against fake servers is to use an IP blockers! Use Protowall or just populate Emule’s built-in IP blocker with data. It will also keep centralized, automated evidence collectors from connecting to you. If they get a file chunk from you go into a lotto drawing for an RIAA lawsuit. Publishing your share list to a fake server (share publish is automatic upon connect) has the same effect. The odds of an actual lawsuit once in the pot is still only about he same as 4 figures or better on a scrather lotto though. The cumulative lifetime probability of death by external causes (fire, flood, car crash…) is higher. If you live in China or the like though, then you have more than just the RIAA to worry about. Less than 30% of emule users are blocking IPs from hostiles like NetSentry and Cyberverse and fake servers. If your emule is showing more than 6 million users on the network, then you have shit load of fake servers in your list.

    Here is a list of download / page links:

  • BlueTack BlockLists Page
  • BlueTack Emule List (Direct link to download)
  • BlueTack Paranoid Emule List (Direct link to download)
  • FileSharingGuide.com Emule Page – Emule 0.47c Custom Installer pre-populated IP-blocklist (source/quality unknown), hosted on the Edskes File Download Mirror and at a renegade mirror at I-Shou University in Taiwan at ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Windows/Edskes/ They refuse to take down files and host updates that the Netherlands ISP took down in response to cease and decist letters, including the NOD32 Standalone Virus Scanner.
  • Emule Morph / Emule Pawcio / Eserver – IPFilter (Direct link to download)
  • Emule Morph / Emule Pawcio / Eserver – Fakes (Direct link to download) Fakes havn’t been updated since May, probably discontinued. Out of date is better than nothing. Emule Mods only.
  • Emule Morph / Emule Pawcio / Eserver – IP2Country (Direct link to download) Emule Mods only.
  • Oh yeah, to effectively use Emule’s built-in IP blocker to block fake servers, the ‘Filter Servers Too’ checkbox must be checked in the IP filter sub-section of the Security section of the Options (Options button -> Security Section -> IP Filter sub-section on top -> Checkbox is on top of the IP Filter section). This has a negative side effect of blocking all DynDNS servers as well, but people wanting secure/private servers with just friends on them should to switch to a darknet anyway.

    If you want to further reduce fake servers (new ones that aren’t on the blocklists yet), disable ‘Update ServerList when connecting to a server’ and ‘Update ServerList when a client connects’. These are in Options->Server->2nd & 3rd checkbox. Doing this will substantially reduce the number of small servers on the list and can hamper rare file hunting a little bit. If you hunt rare files and keep your IP blocker up to date, then leave these on, otherwise turn them off. Another option that is good to turn on is ‘Autoconnect to servers in static list only’ and make the big trusted servers like ‘DonkeyServer No #’ static (select servers in the servers screen and use the right-click menu). There a several fakes with the same name, so use the IP blocker and even better, get a mod like MorphXT or Xtreme that supports country flags.

    Updated 10/4/2006 — Added two paragraphs at the bottom.

    Nationality Breakdown of my Known Clients in my Emule P2P File Sharing – 2006-10-03

    Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

    The dominant theme of this batch of downloads are all 10 of the Star Trek DVD movies, of which 8 of the 10 have completed. I am tempsharing a large MP3 archive and several PDFs of christian texts, most revolving around the book of revelation and the rapture, tribulation, trumpets and stuff. The LightHouse publishing ones are Jahova’s Witness I think.

    Here’s the country breakdown of my Emule’s known clients (Max of night of 2006-10-02 and morning of 2006-10-03):

     Argentina           10
    Australia           10
    Austria             2
    Bangledesh          1
    Belgium             4
    Bolivia             2
    Brazil              24
    Canada              22
    Chile               4
    China               29
    Columbia            1
    Costa Rica          1
    Croatia             2
    Czech Republic      4
    Denmark             7
    Dominican Republic  1
    Ecuador             1
    Estonia             6
    Finland             3
    Former Yogoslav     1
    France              38
    Germany             27
    Greece              10
    Guatamala           1
    Hong Kong           1
    Hungary             3
    India               2
    Ireland             2
    Islamic Repub Iran  4
    Isreal              23
    Italy               34
    Japan               8
    Lithuania           2
    Luxemburg           1
    Malaysia            5
    Malta               1
    Mexico              3
    Netherlands         9
    New Zealand         2
    Norway              3
    Not Applicable      16
    Paraguay            1
    Peru                2
    Phillipines         1
    Poland              34
    Portugal            18
    Republic of Korea   8
    Romania             9
    Russian Federation  5
    Saudi Arabia        1
    Serbia Montenegro   2
    Singapore           3
    Slovakia            1
    Slovenia            12
    Spain               58
    Sweden              3
    Switzerland         4
    Taiwan              8
    Turkey              9
    Ukraine             1
    United Kingdom      34
    United States       55
    Uraguay             1
    Venezuela           3
    

    Here’s what I allowed to linger in my incoming folder:
    Most ‘incoming’ files have been moved to ‘Assimilation’, which is not Shared. These are mainly files that I like but are very rare and decided to help seed without making it a permashare

  • (DOD) The Effects of Nuclear Weapons.pdf
  • 05-sepultura_-_desperated_cry(21-01-94_rio_de_janeiro).mpg
  • 07-sepultura_-_inner_self(21-01-94_rio_de_janeiro).mpg
  • 09-sepultura_-_we_who_are_not_as_others(21-01-94_rio_de_jane.mpg
  • AD&D 2nd Edition – Planescape – Adventure – Rapture – Projects God and Satan into AD&D 1st edition_Planscape cosmology God Power CooCoo Satan Hero.pdf
  • Bennie Blount Ministries – Harry A. Ironside – Not Wrath But Rapture.pdf
  • Bible Truths Revealed – 27 – Revelation.pdf
  • Dungeons & Dragons D20 D&D 3E 3rd Ed V 3.5 – Magic of Incarnum – WTC88579(1).pdf
  • Dungeons & Dragons D20 D&D 3E 3rd Ed V 3.5 – Races of Destiny – WTC17737.pdf
  • Dunn – The Revelation of St. John.pdf
  • Edgar Cayce On The Book Of Revelation.pdf
  • James Springer White – The Sounding of the Seven Trumpets in Revelation 8 and 9.PDF
  • John N. Andrews – Three Angels of Revelation Chapter 14 Verses 6-12.pdf
  • John Nevins Andrews – Three Messages of Revelation 14.pdf
  • John Norton Loughborough – The Two Horned Beast.PDF
  • John Wesley – Explanatory Notes on the Book of Revelation.pdf
  • Koinonia House – Chuck Missler – Revelation – Revelation Notes – Session 01 to 24 – All 24 Sessions – ISBN 1-880532-03-4.pdf
  • Koinonia House – Chuck Missler – Revelation Mp3’s Complete – 24 MP3s 1 per Tape – With 209pg PDF Supplemental Notes – Ctca.rar
  • Koinonia House – Chuck Missler – Revelation Supplemental Notes – 3 Sets of 8 Tapes – Chap 1-3 pg1-80 + Chap 4-11 pg81-144 + Chap 12-22 pg145-208.pdf
  • Koinonia House – Chuck Missler – Revelation Supplemental Notes – The Coming Temple.pdf
  • Koinonia House – Chuck Missler – Revelation Supplemental Notes – The Rapture.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Andrews – The Judgement, Its Events and Their Order – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Andrews – The Sanctuary and the 2300 Days – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Bates – The Seal of the Living God – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – E J Waggoner – The Glad Tidings – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Fitch – Come Out of Her My People – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Fitch – Glory of God In the Earth – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Gilbert – Divine Predictions Fulfilled – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Hines – The Approaching Crisis – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – James White – A Word To The Little Flock – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – James White – Bible Adventism – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – James White – The Second Coming of Christ – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – James White – The Sounding of the Seven Trumpets – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Jones, A T – National Sunday Law – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Jones, A T – Two Republics Rome + USA – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Jones, A.T.- Great Nations of Today – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Lighthouse Publishing – Smith, Uriah – Daniel and Revelation – Antichrist Bible Studies Jesus Babylon Beast Mark 666 Revelation Tribulation Rapture Second Coming Imposters.pdf
  • Maranathamedia – The Secret Rapture Doctrine.pdf
  • Marcussen – National Sunday Law (Bible prophecies, 666, beast mark, Sabbath, Rome, USA).pdf
  • Military The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy.pdf
  • Mythus Magazine 1-6.zip
  • Nuclear Weapon Teller-Ulam design – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.pdf
  • Nuclear Weapons And Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones.pdf
  • Sabbath Bible Lessons (Vol. 76, No. 1) January-March, 2001 (The Book of Revelation, Chapters 1-3).pdf
  • Sabbath Bible Lessons (Vol. 76, No. 2) April-June, 2001 (The Book of Revelation, Chapters 4-7).pdf
  • Sabbath Bible Lessons (Vol. 76, No. 3) July-September, 2001 (The Book of Revelation, Chapters 8-13).pdf
  • Sabbath Bible Lessons (Vol. 76, No. 4) October-December, 2001 (The Book of Revelation, Chapters 14-22l).pdf
  • Scorched_Earth_v1.5_UnRegistered_Shareware.rar
  • Tim LaHaye – Imminent Rapture Of The Church Part 01.pdf
  • Tim LaHaye – Imminent Rapture Of The Church Part 02.pdf
  • Tim LaHaye – Imminent Rapture Of The Church Part 03.pdf
  • TM 5-858-7 DESIGNING FACILITIES TO RESIST NUCLEAR WEAPON EFFECTS.pdf
  • Unknown – The Seven Trumpets of Revelation.pdf
  • Uriah Smith – The Seven Heads of Revelation 13.pdf
  • Uriah Smith – Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.pdf
  • Weapons Technology (biological, chemical, nuclear).pdf
  • Web Rip – Anything But Secret (Jesus Bible Rapture Tribulation antichrist God beast 666 Devil).htm
  • Web Rip – Crews – The Secret Rapture (What the Bible Really says Rapture second coming Tribulation antichrist God Devil).htm
  • Web Rip – The Rapture- Anything But Secret (Second coming, Jesus Christ, tribulation).pdf
  • Here’s all the files that i’m currently downloading:

  • Star Trek V – The Final Frontier – CD1 – 1989 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek V – The Final Frontier – CD2 – 1989 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek VI – The Undiscovered Country – CD1 – 1991 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • GURPS Espace – Stuff.rar
  • Eve Dallas 04 – Rapture in Death.pdf
  • D20 D&D 3E 3rd Ed – BP Bastion Press – BAS6016 – 3.5E Alchemy & Herbalists.pdf
  • Dungeons & Dragons D20 D&D 3E 3rd Ed – Fiend Folio – WTC88661.pdf
  • Here’s all the files that are in my unshared ‘Assimilation Chamber’ folder tree:

  • (ebook-txt) Jokes_70 pgs. of jokes.doc
  • Advanced Querying and Query Tuning in SQL Server 2000 and 2005.pdf
  • afi21-204 (15_03_2005) NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROCEDURES.pdf
  • Great Quotations & Murphy’s Laws.pdf
  • Humor – AD&D – The Big Book of RPG Practical Jokes and Pranks.pdf
  • Jokes – The Ultimate List Of Practical Jokes.pdf
  • L.A.Shoemaker – 101 Sex Jokes And Comix.pdf
  • McGraw-Hill – Schaum’s Outlines – Programming With C++ – 1996.pdf
  • Murphy laws of IT.doc
  • Murphy laws of work.doc
  • Murphy’s Laws of Combat.htm
  • Murphy’s sex law.doc
  • Raxco.PerfectDisk.v8.0.30.Server.Edition.Retail-ZWT.rar
  • Raxco.PerfectDisk.Workstation.Edition.v8.0.30.Retail-CORE.rar
  • Readers Digest Best Jokes.pdf
  • Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Keygen-Reloaded.rar
  • School – The Ultimate List Of Practical Jokes.txt
  • SpaceMaster – Privateers – Tech Law Vehicle Manual Errata – ICE4513 – 2002-07-23.pdf
  • The Complete Edition of Murphy’s Laws.pdf
  • Trading Strategies – John Murphy’s Ten Laws of Technical Trading.pdf
  • US ARMY 6 Nuclear Weapons Effects Technology.pdf
  • US Nuclear Weapons in Europe 2005.pdf
  • Star Trek First Contact – CD1 – 1996 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek First Contact – CD2 – 1996 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek Generations – CD1 – 1994 DVDrip XVID AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek Generations – CD2 – 1994 DVDrip XVID AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek I – The Motion Picture – CD1 – 1979 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek I – The Motion Picture – CD2 – 1979 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek II – The Wrath Of Khan – CD1 – 1982 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek II – The Wrath Of Khan – CD2 – 1982 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek III – The Search for Spock – CD1 – 1984 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek III – The Search for Spock – CD2 – 1984 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek Insurrection – CD1 – 1998 DVDRip XviD AC3 Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek Insurrection – CD2 – 1998 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home – CD1 – 1986 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home – CD2 – 1986 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek Nemesis – CD1 – 2002 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek Nemesis – CD2 – 2002 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • Star Trek VI – The Undiscovered Country – CD2 – 1991 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
  • America’s Hate-List, Middle East, and Rare and Very-Rare Countries on my Emule P2P File Sharing 2006-10-03

    Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

    These rare and hatelists are by far small minority or outright rare on Emule but I watch out for them, But I don’t actually do anything other than log them here. I gathered off and on over over about 4 weeks , most of it in the 1st and 4th weeks

    America’s Hate List:

    Afghanistan -

    (Never seen any ever yet)

    Bosnia and Herzegovina -

    (Didn’t see any)

    Cambodia / Myommar -

    (Never seen any ever yet)

    Cuba -

    camilohe (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Raxco.PerfectDisk.v8.0.30.Server.Edition.Retail-ZWT.rar

    Iran -

    leon1994 (Emule Compat 1.2)
    Gremlins.2.The.New.Batch.(1990).DVDRip.XviD-FiNaLE.ShareTheFiles.com.avi

    qbwvtp [ePlus]
    Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 Ed. 2006-05-04 060504 – Base + SDK + Planet HiRes + Earth L10 + Mars L10 + DeltaGlider HTex + DragonFly HTex.rar

    hassan (Emule Official 0.47a)
    E.T.the.Extra-Terrestrial.1982.20th.Anniversary.Edition.DVDRip.XviD.CD1-SChiZO.avi
    E.T.the.Extra-Terrestrial.1982.20th.Anniversary.Edition.DVDRip.XviD.CD2-SChiZO.avi

    [FunnyNick] XPig(Emule Official 0.46c)
    Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm

    [FunnyNick] Wild MC (Emule Official 0.46c)
    Hackers.(1995).AC3.5.1.by.OSM.CD2.avi
    Hackers.(1995).CD1.[OSM].(osloskop.net).avi

    [FunnyNick] XPig (Emule Official 0.46c)
    Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm

    kxjfvd [ePlus] (Emule Compat 1.1.7)
    Schaums Outlines – Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables – 2nd Edition 2E.pdf

    [FunnyNick] Smooth Duck (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 Ed. 2006-05-04 060504 – Base + SDK + Planet HiRes + Earth L10 + Mars L10 + DeltaGlider HTex + DragonFly HTex.rar

    [FunnyNick] Funny Girl (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Philip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia – 2002.pdf

    [FunnyNick] Smooth Duck (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 Ed. 2006-05-04 060504 – Base + SDK + Planet HiRes + Earth L10 + Mars L10 + DeltaGlider HTex + DragonFly HTex.rar

    [FunnyNick] Hiphop MC (Emule Official 0.47b)
    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

    [FunnyNick] Fast Penguin (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to June 2006.chm

    [FunnyNick] Furious Rabbit (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Religion Holy Spirit Ghost Christian Church Jesus – ESword E-Sword – Bible Graphics – 7 Graphics Sets – Charts Maps Atlases Satellite Images.rar

    username (Emule Official 0.47c)
    Microsoft MS Press – Inside SQL Server 2000.chm

    gpqaah [ePlus] (Emule Compat 1.2)
    Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas.pdf

    [FunnyNick] Smooth MC (Emule Official 0.47c)
    SQL Server Magazine Master CD – Volume 8 – March 1999 to September 2003 – With Code.rar

    [FunnyNick] Flying Boy (Emule Official 0.47c)
    GURPS – Space – 3rd Edition – OCR.pdf

    Iraq -

    (Didn’t see any)

    Libya -

    (Never seen any ever yet)

    North Korea -

    (Never will see any – North/South Korea is not differentiated in IP2Country because North Korea has only a few dozen IP addresses assigned to them).

    Palestinian Territory, Occupied -

    (Didn’t see any)

    Pakistan (Unofficial because of puppet goverment) -

    [FunnyNick] USB-Godzilla (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Axiom Software DISCUS Big Corporate personality test software – Old Cracked Demo with backup & copyover exploit batchfile to refuel 3 test admins.rar

    [FunnyNick] Blue Snail (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Encyclopedia of Space Sciences – All 4 Volumes – Space Business – Planetary Science and Astronomy – Humans in Space – Our Future in Space – 2002.pdf

    Sudan -

    (Never seen any ever yet)

    Syria -

    Administrator (shareaza.com) (Shareaza 2.2.1)
    Zombeck, Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

    More Middle Eastern Countries:

    Bahrain -

    [FunnyNick] Pretty Lizard (Emule Official 0.47a)
    The.Goonies.English.avi

    [FunnyNick] PS2-Mule (Emule 0.47b)
    Koinonia House – Chuck Missler – Revelation Mp3’s Complete – 24 MP3s 1 per Tape – With 209pg PDF Supplemental Notes – Ctca.rar

    Jordan -

    Suleiman (Emule Official 0.46c)
    Military The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy.pdf

    tttmmme (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Philip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia – 2002.pdf
    Zombeck, Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

    Rush (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Encyclopedia of Space Sciences – All 4 Volumes – Space Business – Planetary Science and Astronomy – Humans in Space – Our Future in Space – 2002.pdf

    Kuwait -

    ahmed (Emule Official 0.47a)
    E.T.the.Extra-Terrestrial.1982.20th.Anniversary.Edition.DVDRip.XviD.CD1-SChiZO.avi
    E.T.the.Extra-Terrestrial.1982.20th.Anniversary.Edition.DVDRip.XviD.CD2-SChiZO.avi

    [FunnyNick] Flying 6
    ROMS – Favorite – GBC Game Boy Color – 8 ROMs – Dragon Quest Warrior 1-3+Monsters 2 Super Mario Brothers Deluxe Lufia Pokemon Crystal Harvest Moon.rar

    Qatar -

    [FunnyNick] Atrocious Girlie (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Calc98 V 5.66 – Regged Download Win32 Version converted to RAR.rar

    Saudi Arabia -

    ahahos (Emule Compat 1.2)
    Bruce Willis – Die Hard 1 – 1988.avi

    [FunnyNick] Slow Snake (Emule Official 0.47a)
    TM 5-858-7 DESIGNING FACILITIES TO RESIST NUCLEAR WEAPON EFFECTS.pdf

    drh104@hotmail.com (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Gremlins 1 (1984) Dvdrip Divx5-Revamp Sharethefiles.avi

    Ronnie (shareaza.com) (Shareaza 2.2.1)
    Religion Holy Christian Church ??????? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????- – KJV RSV NIV NLT Hebrew Greek – Bible Commentary Dictionary 54,000 words.rar

    [FunnyNick] Fast Girl (Emule Official 0.46c)
    Schaums Outlines – Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables – 2nd Edition 2E.pdf

    United Arab Emirates -

    enthralledecay (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Hackers.(1995).CD1.[OSM].(osloskop.net).avi
    Hackers.(1995).AC3.5.1.by.OSM.CD2.avi

    Extra-Rare Countries Just for Fun:

    Albania -

    crmvxw [ePlus] (Emule Compat 1.2)
    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

    Algeria -

    MOURAD (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Encyclopedia of Space Sciences – All 4 Volumes – Space Business – Planetary Science and Astronomy – Humans in Space – Our Future in Space – 2002.pdf
    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

    [FunnyNick] Lovely Guinea Pig (Emule Official 0.47a)
    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

    aajacn [ePlus] (Emule Compat 1.17)
    Schaums Outlines – Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables – 2nd Edition 2E.pdf

    [FunnyNick] White Star (Emule Official 0.47b)
    ROMS – Favorite – GBA Game Boy Advance – 24 ROMs – Final Fantasy Tactics 1-2+4 Golden Sun 1+2 Fire Emblem 1+2 Pokemon Dragon Quest 16 Others.rar

    Aruba -

    wojjal [ePlus] (Emule Compat 1.2)
    Favorite Pictures ScreenSaver 256 – 16 JPG – Astronomy Download JPG – Hubble Cassini Galaxies Jupiter – 10-25-2004.rar

    Bangledesh -

    [FunnyNick] Furious 3 Schaums Outlines – Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables – 2nd Edition 2E.pdf

    Ecuador -

    Micro (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Philip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia – 2002.pdf

    El Salvador -

    [FunnyNick] Dinky Smurf (Emule 0.47a MorphXT 8.14)
    Religion Holy Spirit Ghost Christian Church Jesus – ESword E-Sword – Bible Graphics – 7 Graphics Sets – Charts Maps Atlases Satellite Images.rar

    Former Yugoslav Republic -

    icemkd (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Hackers.(1995).CD1.[OSM].(osloskop.net).avi
    Hackers.(1995).AC3.5.1.by.OSM.CD2.avi

    j007 (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Star Trek V – The Final Frontier – CD2 – 1989 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi
    Star Trek V – The Final Frontier – CD1 – 1989 DVDRip XviD AC3 – Setarcos.avi

    Iceland -
    [FunnyNick] Bavarian Elephant (Emule Official 0.47a)
    The.Goonies.English.avi

    unknown (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Raxco.PerfectDisk.Workstation.Edition.v8.0.30.Retail-CORE.rar

    Malta -

    murgia (Edonkey Hybrid 0.40.3)
    Die.Hard.2.(1990).onion.avi

    willie_waters (Emule Official 0.47c)
    Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 Ed. 2006-05-04 060504 – Base + SDK + Planet HiRes + Earth L10 + Mars L10 + DeltaGlider HTex + DragonFly HTex.rar

    Netherlands Antilles -

    hansanneke (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Bruce Willis – Die Hard 1 – 1988.avi

    New Caledonia -

    [FunnyNick] Elite Godzilla (Emule Official 0.47a)
    The.Goonies.English.avi

    Puerto Rico -

    [FunnyNick] Harsh Smurf (Emule 0.47a)
    Zombeck, Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

    Sri Lanka -

    [FunnyNick] Green Bird (Emule Official 0.47a)
    Microsoft MS Press – Inside SQL Server 2000.chm

    Uganda -

    AfricanSky (Emule 0.47a Sivka 1.7b1 alplha)
    Religion Holy Christian Church ??????? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????- – Audio Bible – New Living Translation NLT – Old Testament – Dramatized – Mp3.rar

    Some More Rare Countries (No ED2K Links):

    Algeria – Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Schaum’s Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
    Aruba – Favorite Pictures Astronomy
    Austria – Gremlins 1 DVD (DL), Gremlins 2 DVD (DL), Area 51 Groom Lake Satellite Pictures 1959-2005 (UL), GURPS Compenidum 2 OCR (UL), Azureus 2.4.02 Linux-PPC (UL)
    Bahrain – Goonies DVD (UL+DL), Chuck Missler Revelation MP3s (UL+DL)
    Bangledesh – Schaum’s Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL)
    Bolivia – ROMs Favorite Super Nintendo SNES (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL), Schaum’s Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo NES (U(L)
    Bulgaria – Gremlins 2 DVD (UL+DL), Hackers DVD (UL+DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Star Wars Pink 5 Pre Atom Films TheForce.net version (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL)
    Costa Rica – Phillip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia (UL), Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2005 (UL)
    Croatia – Gremlins 1 DVD (DL), Goonies DVD (DL), Germlins 2 DVD (UL), GURPS 4th Edition Characters OCR (UL), Phillip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Color GBC (UL)
    Cuba – PerfectDisk Server 8.0.30 (DL)
    Cyprus – Die Hard 2 DVD (UL+DL), ROMS Favorite Sega Genesis (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL)
    Czech Republic – E.T. Extraterrestrial DVD (UL+DL), PerfectDisk 8.0.30 Server (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL)
    Dominican Republic – E.T. Extra-Terrestrial DVD (UL+DL), Azureus 2.5.0.0 Win32 (UL), Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2005 (UL)
    Ecuador – Phillip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia (UL)
    El Salvador – ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), E-Sword Bible Graphics (UL)
    Estonia – Gremlins 1 DVD (UL+DL), Hackers DVD (UL+DL), Gremlins 2 DVD (UL), Die Hard 1 DVD (DL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL), D&D 3E Magic of Iccarnum OCR (UL)
    Former Yogoslav Republic – Hackers DVD (UL+DL)
    Guatamala – Goonies DVD (DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL)
    Honduras – Orbiter Flight Simulator 2005 (UL)
    Hong Kong – Star Trek DVDs (DL)
    Iceland – Goonies DVD (UL+DL), PerfectDisk WorkStation 8.0.30 (DL)
    India – Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament (UL), Dunn – Revelation of st John (UL), Schaum’s Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL), NOD32 Standalone Virus Scanner 20060616 (UL), Pention Media VIP CD (UL)
    Indonesia – SQL Server 2005 Yukon Undocumented (UL), Dictionary of Geophysics Astrophysics and Astronomy (UL)
    Ireland – Die Hard 1 DVD (DL), Die Hard 2 DVD (DL), Ghostbusters 1 DVD (DL), Ghostbusters 2 DVD (DL), PerfectDisk WorkStation 8.0.30 (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL)
    Jordan – The Future of US Military Weapons (UL), Phillip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia (UL), Zomback Martin Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
    Kuwait – ET Extraterrestrial DVD (DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Color GBC (UL)
    Latvia – Die Hard 2 DVD (UL+DL), Phillip’s Astronomy Encyclopedia (UL), PerfectDisk WorkStation 8.0.30 (DL), Sepultura Troops of Doom Rio de Janeiro 21-01-94 (UL)
    Lithuania – Goonies DVD (UL+DL), Gremlins 1 DVD (UL+DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL)
    Luxemburg – Gremlins 1 DVD (DL), Gremlins 2 DVD (UL+DL), Ghostbusters 1 DVD (DL), Goonies DVD (DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), E-Sword Bible English 22 Translations (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL), Gary Gygax Mythus Magik (UL)
    Malaysia – Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament (UL), ROMs Favorite Super Nintendo SNES (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), MS Press Inside SQL Server 2005 (UL), MS Press SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Tech Ref (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), List of Astronomoical Formulas and Constants (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL), Chuck Missler Revelation MP3s Complete (UL), Text Files Personality Tests (UL), Schaum’s Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), Chuck Missler Revelation MP3s Complete (UL)
    Malta – Die Hard 2 DVD (UL+DL), Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 (UL)
    Netherlands Antilles – Die Hard 1 DVD (UL+DL)
    New Caledonia – Goonies DVD (UL+DL)
    New Zealand – Die Hard 1 DVD (UL+DL), Goonies DVD (UL+DL), Gremlins 1 DVD (DL), GURPs Vehicles (UL), Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 (UL), Star Trek DVDs (DL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL)
    Pakistan – Axiom Software Discus Personality Test (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL)
    Panema – Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 (UL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL), Star Trek DVDs (DL)
    Paraguay – Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL), E-Sword Bible Commentary Addons (UL)
    Peru – SQLConnections 2005 Fall Conference Slides+Code (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), MS Press Inside SQL Server 2000 (UL), Kitaro Tenku (UL+DL), Commercial Pub CM MovOn.org Anti-Bush 8 favorite spots (UL), MS Press Inside SQL Server 2005 (UL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL), Area 51 Groom Lake Satellite Pictures 1959-2005 (UL), SQL Server Master CD (UL), Zombeck Martin Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
    Phillipines – Die Hard 1 DVD (DL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL), Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL)
    Puerto Rico – Zomback Martin Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
    Qatar – Calc98 Regged (UL)
    Romania – Gremlins 1 DVD (UL+DL), MLDonkey 2.7.5 Windows (UL), Die Hard 1 DVD (UL+DL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL)
    Saudi Arabia – Die Hard 1 DVD (DL), Designing Facilities To Resist Nuclear Weapon Effects (UL), Ghostbusters 1 DVD (UL+DL), Haah Bible Commentary (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL)
    Serbia and Montenegro – Goonies DVD (UL+DL), Gremlins 2 DVD (DL), Gremlins 1 DVD (UL+DL), Star Wars Broken Allegiance (UL), GURPs 4th Infinite Worlds OCR (UL), SQL Server Master CD 2003 (UL), Azureus 2.5.0.0 Win32 (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL), Emule Extreme AntiLeech.dll Sources (UL)
    Singapore – Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament (UL), Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL), MS Press Inside SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Programming (UL), Schaum’s Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), ROMs Favorite Game Boy Advance GBA (UL)
    Slovakia – Die Hard 2 DVD (UL+DL), Modern Physics for Engineers (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL), Star Wars Seeds of Darkness (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL)
    Sri Lanka – MS Press Inside SQL Server 2000 (UL)
    Sweden – Gremlins 2 DVD (DL), Ghostbusters 1 DVD (DL),, Ghostbusters 2 DVD (UL+DL), Gremlins 1 DVD (DL), Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2005 (UL), SQL Server Master CD 2003 (UL), Middle Earth Map Vector Based (UL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL), WinRK Archiver 3.0.3 (UL), Star Trek DVDs (DL)
    Switzerland – Goonies DVD (UL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N54 (UL), Azureus 2.5.0.0 Linux x86_64 (UL), Star Trek DVDs (DL), Sepultura We Are Not As Others Rio De Janeiro 1994 (UL)
    Syria – Zomback Martin Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (UL)
    Thailand – Schaum’s Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (UL), PerfectDisk Server 8.0.30 (DL), Encyclopedia of Space Sciences (UL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL)
    Uganda – Tyndale Dramatized NLT Audio Bible Old Testament (UL),
    Ukraine – SQL Server Master CD 2003 (UL), PerfectDisk Server 8.0.30 (UL+DL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL)
    Uraguay – Gremlins 1 DVD (DL), Star Trek DVDs (UL+DL), ROMs Favorite Nintendo 64 N64 (UL)
    Viet Nam – MS Press Inside SQL Server 2005 T-SQL Programming, SQL Server Master CD 2003 (UL), SQL Server Undocumented SQLDev.net (UL), Penton Media VIP CD (UL)

    P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-09-29

    Friday, September 29th, 2006
  • ABC News – The MPAA Surrenders in War Against Piracy
  • Guba – Free Section – Search for ‘Star Trek’
  • I wouldn’t say the the MPAA has surrendered. Just that the MPAA is a sucker for ass-kissing. If you can run a part that is legal and ass-kisses the MPAA (and maybe the RIAA too), then you can run another half that isn’t quite so legal and get a way with it. The ass kissing is a lot of work though… The main difference between Guba and YouTube is that Guba is scraping usenet with very little filtering, and that Guba is offering in concurrency, legal DRM video download rentals (YouTube does neither). There doesn’t seem to be much filtering for copyrights, so the MPAA is probably being well bulshitted on the ‘content filtering’. Dowload while you can! The episodes will last much longer on Emule though, so if it ain’t blocked, just use Emule because it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon and will most likely outlive YouTube.

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  • Mercury News – SJ State weighs Skype ban
  • I don’t care for skype. Skype uses Kazaa’s P2P methodology, mostly revolving around the supernode topology. Kazaa / fastrack has poor bandwidth control and it is easy to hack and exploit. If the RIAA can easily plant fake files, currupt files and virsues into existing file shares on Kazaa, then think of what they and other people like the goverment may be able do to your phone calls. But if I were a student, i’d want my uber-cheap (or free) long distance phone calls, and if Kazaa is all there is, then Kazaa (Skype) it is.

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  • AsiaMedia – HONG KONG: Film downloaders face threat of court action
  • Just a little bit over a 50% response rate? Actually that isn’t to bad sinc the RIAA can barely reach 60% with intimidating, threatening collections calls from the Settlement Support Center.

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  • P2PNet – Ithaca College and the RIAA
  • The Ithacan – RIAA requests help from colleges to end network piracy
  • Engadget – myTunes: the simplified iTunes DRM stripper for Windows
  • MyFairTunes Home ‘forum’
  • OurTunes homepage
  • Is Apogee just responding to and passing-through DMCA letters from the RIAA or BSA or are they acting proactivly on their own? They are suposedly the ISP college dorms’ internet access. I wonder how long I would get away with using Emule at this school? I think InfoServices can track OurTunes and MyTunes just as easily as an ordinary network share after just a little bit more initial effort. Worse, I don’t see the ability to password-protect your Itunes shares because SUNY Tech expressly forbids un-passworded network shares, no matter what the content. This rule is actually not primarily motivated by anti-piracy, but from the child porn bust that happened the previous year that did significant damage to the school’s rep – child porn was being shared on an un-passworded share. I was sharing my entire MP3 and ROMs collection unpassword though and most of my own acquisition was scanning the network machine by machine for MP3s.

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  • P2PNet – LimeWire versus the RIAA
  • Recording Industry vs The People – Lime Wire Sues RIAA for Antitrust Violations
  • MacWorld – Lime Wire turns tables, sues record companies
  • PC Advisor – LimeWire countersues record companies
  • PC Pro – LimeWire fights back over RIAA legal action
  • BetaNews – LimeWire Countersues Record Industry
  • Slyck – LimeWire Counter Sues the RIAA
  • Fight back at the RIAA, fight! fight! WAR!! (Just not too preemptively) Who gonna pay them lawyers though?? ???Defendants admit the allegations of the first sentence of paragraph 41 of the Complaint. Defendants deny the remaining allegations of paragraph 41 of the Complaint but admit that the LimeWire software application can automatically launch upon start up of a user???s computer for Windows versions only, unless the user designates otherwise.??? (Slyck article) Is a boo boo. “Sound recordings” is only a logical subset of the amount of files made available on Gnutella/LimeWire. Not the only type of file made available as the RIAA’s paragraph wants to make the judge/jury to think. Actually, the Gnutella network is the leading scource of leaked goverment classified documents…. Gnutella is optimized for small files after all… I download album archives and discographies from Emule, as Emule is optmized for big files. The RIAA hasn’t caught up with the times yet to monitor compilation archives effectivly, though they do plant a lot of fakes in the form of mass-seeding passworded archives though, but the preview feature will tell me if an archive is passworded before I get 20% of the file. Emule has enough individual song files (popular radio hits usually) to decide if I want to go grabbing at the albums or the discoagrphies.

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  • The Inquirer (UK) – EDonkey still brays despite being “shut down”
  • This reporter needs to populate Emule’s IP blocker. His server list is full of fakes, many run by the RIAA. I can tell by this — “However, with the servers reporting over 18.3 million users logged on and 2.2 billion files shared at the time of press”. The ED2K network is running between 3.3 and 4.2 million simultanous users right now (4M is usually late night weekends, usually not over 3.6M on weeknights). This guy is probably getting pounded half to death by NetSentry right now.

    Cambridge University Autism Research Team – Adult Autsitic Trait Questionaire – Autistic Spectrum Quotient AQ

    Thursday, September 28th, 2006

  • Wired – Take The AQ Test (Score it manually, CGI doesn’t work, has scoring key on bottom)

  • MSNBC – The Autism Spectrum Quotient (Where I ripped the flash from)

  • I took this Autism Quotient test and scored a 41 out of 50. The score is higher than the Aspie average but not very close to the maximum relative to the aspie average though. Notice that I took it via a flash .swf file through Media Player Classic, which is included in the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack! It plays anything that you got the codec for! And it plays more .swf and .flv files than flash’s own external offline player does! Media Player Classic may be splicing into Internet Explorer middleware code that is embedded into windows to do this though. It does the same with RealPlayer and Quicktime, whether the real actual RealPlayer or QuickTime or QuickTime alternative or the Real alternative (QuickTime and Real Alternative are included in K-Lite Mega Codec Pack)!

    Oh yeah CodecGuide.com also has FileSharingGuide.com, which has some dated information and guidance on filesharing, but it also offers a customized installer for the official Emule client that has a pre-configured, IP Blocker, something that only mods normally do, an altered ‘optimized’ default configuration, extra hashlink site data, and a couple of plugins such as MediaInfo pre-installed.

    If you want, you can take the AQ test through the embed below the two screenies or just download it, take it home, and give away copies. I ripped it from MSNBC NewsWeek. I think NewWeek ripped/licensed it from elsewhere. I either assemble URLs and download them with GetRight, or with FireFox, I save the page in ‘web page, complete’ mode, depending on how easy it is to get the full url (web page saves a bunch of extra junk that need to be cleaned up).

    Full screen grab – 1680×1050 278KB
    AQ FullScreen



    Just Media Player Classic running the Autistic Spectrum Quotient test flash – 782×700 62.5KB
    AQ Media Player Classic

    Take the autsim quotient (AQ) test here (Flash)!


    Or Just Download It (26.7KB .swf)!

    Wallpaper of my favorite Pirate Bay T-Shirt Logos & Slogans

    Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

    The is an image I montaged from my favorites from the t-shirt image choices at The Pirate Bay’s store, the Pirate Shop or Piratshoppen. It is desktop size, between 1024×768 and 1280×960, but not sized or aspect-ratioed for full-screen wallpaper.

    The full size image is a 256-color PNG, 1000×864, 78.1KB
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