Law For Illegal Warez From Rapidshare Megaupload Etc.?
Apr 3, 2009
I saw a website a few days ago hosting Warez and hacking, But they wasn't directly download from there website. They was only linking? is this illegal in the UK just to link to warez, Like to rapidshare, megaupload, etc..? Whats there law like?, Can anyone explain if this is a good idea or not?
First of all I should say sorry for my English, it's not good but I hope you can understand it.
I have a downloads site where most of the content are .zip and .rar files. I use about 300GB/month of bandwith, and it's growing a lot so I decided to move the files to a file-based hosting.
So, I'm looking for a service like Rapidshare, Megaupload... in their premium accounts. I need:
· About 300GB of monthly bandwith or more.
· About 5GB of hard disk space.
The main purpose is to share files, so I don't need any database, php support or any other thing... just file sharing.
I want to spend about 100€/120$ on it every year.
I was thinking on an "unlimited" hosting as HostGator, but the ToS of must of them says it's not allowed to use it as a file sharing account.
I'm kinda confused about warez linking allowed VPS hosters.. Most of them they say "Warez Linking is allowed" "AS LONG AS IT'S LEGAL" Is there a legal warez? I though that warez is illegal in the first place!
I'm planing to buy a VPS Plan from fsckvps.com, but I'm afraid they might terminate my account, so want to make sure if I will work fine with them, I've contacted them as pre-sale question, they said that warez linking is allowed as long as nothing is hosted on their server.
Okay, Now what's legal warez? My site content actually is New worldwide music albums, info, Movies, Cracked/nulled softwares..
Download links are included, but hosted on sharing site such as 4shared.com etc..
Will this be fine? Or I might experience account termination?
I'm just inches away from purchasing their 512MB RAM Plan, this is my final question.
We are seeing good reviews about cologuys' dedicated servers but we are concerned that they host piracy sites such as << snipped >> (super illegal site) and << snipped >> (service to download rapidshare links without waiting). I'm assuming this is against their TOS but what we're more concerned with is should Cologuys ever get busted for hosting warez would our servers be affected in any way?
I have noticed over 10 sites hosted on HostFresh which are abusing my copyright and stealing softwares from a company which I'm affiliated with I sent hostresh email to abuse@ however no actions was taken its been almost a month since I sent the email out.
I asked them nicely to remove that infringing site but they do nothing I sent them another email today Waiting to see what happened and I wanted to bring this here for some advice what should I do if they do nothing after another month? I'm not much expierenced with this but the company is loosing a lot of money and I'm being pressured, hiring a lawyer is a lot of money too so I tried to get it fixed with emails but they dont want to help me solve this.
I have a cpanel 11 server with php 4.4.6 installed. my site use php scripts and one day even if the file was not edited, not touched at all , i get errors like
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ']' in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/post.php on line 37
I checked and could find a lot of illeagal characters in my php file. See below. for post_status , it became post_statuó and edit_date became edit_date<8d>. If you read through the code, you can see a lot of illegal characters. This is why i get parse errors. I had to replace the file from backup and the issue fixed. But this problem continues to occur for more files and i can't find a reason for this. Again I am the only one with access, I use BBedit to edit php files when needed in Mac OS X, and beleive I know what is being edited and again, those file which gets errors does not need to be edited for nothing, not even to modify wordpress.
I am not a web host. I do have my own server that I host my company sites on and some of my friends use it as well.
I had someone ask me if I could host about ten pages on my server for him. He said the following," Hello. What is your base hosting price... say for a dozen page static site? (making some Page Rank sites on different hosts to mask the connections to my main website)"
This question gave me an uneasy feeling, but then again I am not familiar with this tactic. I have two questions since the above was asked.
1. Is this illegal by search engine rules. 2. Can my websites be affected if it is.
I noticed in the apache error logs that Yahoo and Google (mostly Yahoo) have been crawling one of my clients' sites for warez, cracks and serials, but these files don't exist (and hence they're ending up with 404 errors in the error logs).
The IPs that are doing this are legit (as far as I can tell)... 74.6.20.32, 74.6.74.50, 66.249.65.178
It's systematically hitting the server once every second or two, looking for files such as "free.serial.no.of.flash.professional.8.jsp", "trainer.SimCity.4.million.jsp", "Paragon.Partition.Manager.v.7.crack.jsp"
and this has been happening for at least a day now.
Now here's the thing. The site has gone through a redesign about 4 months ago, and the previous site was running an old version of PHP Nuke that was filled with spam (from tracebacks), and a photo gallery manager which was probably not installed securely. The new site utilizes Joomla, and all the previous elements are gone (in fact the site was migrated to my servers after the redesign, so my servers never hosted their old PHP Nuke or photo gallery).
These mysterious crawls from Yahoo and Google all seem to hit the photo gallery URLs, such as http://www.domain.com/albums/album01...v3.1.patch.jsp
The other weird part is, all the links end with .jsp. The site's previous server did not have JSP support, and neither does mine.
Also before we moved the site over to my server, I archived their entire website on their old server, and none of these files exist there.
Doing a search on Google on their site (site:www.domain.com) doesn't show any of these files. Searching Google for links that point to the site also don't show anything out of the ordinary.
This has me baffled... Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
How would I go about reporting a website for illegal hacking and other activities?
Their host is fully supporting them. They have even given them the ip address of the proxy I used, in which case the client of theirs have added the proxy to their htaccess deny list.
Last week my brother puchased a CD which promised contains thousands of unique templates through [url]
He sell it locally for Indonesia market and leave no contact info.
He showed me and I'm surprised that what did guy did is copied from all sources included templatesmonster.com majority which is available alot of through the net (example: [url]burn it into CD and sell it illegaly.
I reported the site to hostgator.com and got the followin reply: ---------------------------------------------
Hello,
Since there are no templates on the site, you will need to provide evidence of this some how.
Regards, Richard F. Network Security Administrator ISP Blacklist Administrator/Level 3 Systems Administrator PGP Key: [url] ---------------------------------------------
I'm not trying to bash HG, but I need your opinion: is the HG respond is already correct?
So learn from the same thing, if I set a website sell cracked properties and only delivery the product through CD or email (not downloadble one) I can host it with HG as long as no offensive files in their server? Or in this case HG just ignore it because could not understand Indonesia languange?
i'v sent to sharktech.net - rackvibe.com / an emails since a week about an illegal hosting on thier ircd services, but can i know why the identity theft irc servers is still running?
i have sent to both abuse emails to: abuse@rackvibe.com abuse@sharktech.net,
from a differnt email addresses with a hope to see a responce, but they never did.
i wounder how the both companies feel when people credit cards and thier bank accounts are being sold and traded under thier service.
i'v sent to sharktech.net - rackvibe.com / an emails since a week about an illegal hosting on thier ircd services, but can i know why the identity theft irc servers is still running?
i have sent to both abuse emails to: abuse@rackvibe.com abuse@sharktech.net,
from a differnt email addresses with a hope to see a responce, but they never did.
i wounder how the both companies feel when people credit cards and thier bank accounts are being sold and traded under thier service.
yesterday andhrahost.com hacked our WHMCS and sent emails to many of our customer here is the screen shoot ,
[url] [url] he also deleted all admin logs but luckily.i took this screen shoot
Around 2 month back also this happen with us and we even informed OC3 about it but that time also. Mr Alex Ferrari From OC3 networks replied to me and didn't took any action on it.we daily get spam from oc3 networks ip.
regularly they were trying to hack our whmcs and yesterday they did it
i have even sent email to OC3 network and this time also ne reply from them and the hacker,spammer server is still up and selling warez hosting , illigal hosting openly.
Kindly guide me how to proceed to take actions against OC3 netwokrs and against that hostig company who is doing this regurarely.