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Organized soft`warez' piracy is flourishing on the Internet... [[ I can
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 06:16:02 -0500
...just in case you didn't know. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 12 Sep 93 01:01:15 -0500 To: cypherpunks () toad com From: remail () tamsun tamu edu Subject: warez Remailed-By: Anonymous <remail () tamsun tamu edu> Comments: This message DID NOT originate from the address listed in the From line. It was remailed by an automated remailing service operating at that address. Please report problems by mailing to <remail () tamsun tamu edu> with the subject header of PROBLEM. Some recent "warez" posts from alt.security.... Newsgroups: alt.security Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!olivea!sgigate!sgi!wdl1!mail!klaus From: klaus () lds loral com (Christopher Klaus) Subject: software piracy lists (correction) Message-ID: <1993Aug16.201509.24808 () lds loral com> Organization: Loral Data Systems Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 20:15:09 GMT Lines: 41 Okay, I got some email flaming me for making accusations about these 'warez' lists. Apparently, not all the sites in the lists contained actual warez due to the list being outdated and as the list said it contained some sites that were beneficial to software pirates but didnt contain any warez. I guess if someone wants to stress that because some of the sites werent infact a warez site, that the lists I published werent actual warez lists. Thats fine. So next time, Ill say this list MAY contain sites that support warez, but these are not actual warez lists. I hope that helps someone. If you are the one complaining about not going through the list and emailing each of the sites about the possibility of a warez site, write a script for me. :) I am not going to work overtime to track down the evils of the net. I dont have time to check 400 sites if they are valid for warez. Apparently quite a few sites must have had actual warez, otherwise Anti-track and other pirates would not have been irate about such lists if it didn't contain any 'warez sites'. I find it ironic that many of the admins complained the lists were outdated and useless (maybe they have access to better lists than me) while the pirates complained it was one of the best lists ever produced. In publishing those lists, my point was that there is an organized crime on Internet that maybe some admins should be aware of. I do not believe by publishing those lists that much piracy has been crushed on Internet. As far as the guys saying how insecure fsp and ftp is because it is so easy for an admin to look at network statistics and notice the large amounts of traffic for software piracy, I find it funny those so much pirating is done without admins ever noticing. And it usually gets noticed because of lack of hard drive space, not amount of network traffic. And when 200 users are using some LAN, I really doubt you would notice an enmormous jump in network traffic anyways, due to people ftp'ing all the time as it is. Not to mention it would be rather hard to find out what kind of network traffic is going through all the ports, without violating the privacy of the users. - -- Christopher Klaus klaus () mail lds loral com cklaus () hotsun nersc gov Newsgroups: alt.security Path: netcom.com!csus.edu!decwrl!decwrl!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!sdd.hp.com!nigel.ms en.com!yale.edu!yale!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!coup From: coup () gnu ai mit edu (Christopher Klaus) Subject: warez list2 Message-ID: <1993Aug11.200800.20903 () mintaka lcs mit edu> Sender: news () mintaka lcs mit edu Organization: Free Software Foundation Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 20:08:00 GMT Lines: 247 Here's another list found in some /tmp of warez dood sites.. Please Inform me if U have sites/info not on this list And Any Updates To: an874 () anon penet fi (irc: semi) (Please use same format in msg as I use on list so it s easy to update.) So If there is not you anonymous mail address on this list get one and tell it to me.. Also I allways love to receive sites info and also I like to get info about realiable users as well as "antipirates". Soon I start working with WarBot and #site in irc but I tell 'bout that later -semi
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