PassThePopcorn or PassTheChildPorn

[Slickerey]

hang the bas**rds

Better yet, use a guillotine!

[spektormax]

I have decided that it is time to explain my actions to the community as these accusations have gone long enough. The following is a brief summary of the events of the 24 hours leading up to the incident:
Around 1-4am the night before, Z and I were speaking about various RC2 related things. I had been asked by him to run some numbers for the new bonus points system. After getting tired of 'working', Z mentioned that he had a Virtual Machine with Windows 95 on it. After we played around with the Windows 95 machine, we proceeded to move on to his XP Virtual Machine. Because it was a virtual machine, we decided to see how many viruses we could get installed on it and then see how the hooked into the kernel, what they connected to etc. I decided that the best way to acquire a large amount of viruses was to visit adult sites, as many of them will have you download 'video.exe' or other similar dangerous files.

However, after having some difficulty finding a site that hosted a virus, we decided to simply google for 'porn tube'. After going down 2 pages of links, we decided to skip to page 9 or so in order to have a higher chance of finding a less reputable site. This is were we encountered to our surprise a huge amount of child pornographic pictures which we moved on from and continued to search for more viruses.

The next day Z, exodusquared and I were in a skype conversation, while Azazel was in the chat (he was NOT part of the call). After discussing more RC2 related material, I had mentioned to exodusquared that Z and I had stumbled upon Child Porn on the internet, and that I was surprised how unhidden it was. Exodus and Z mentioned that its much more likely to stumble upon Child Porn on 4chan. To my disbelief after refreshing /b a few times, I did see child porn and some links to '510chan'. I posted a link to the tread as well a copy of the links in the thread, and asked if they thought these were child porn.

Approximately 5 minutes later I was informed by exodusquared that Azazel had contacted him over IRC and said that he was 'sickened by me, that he was going to leave PTP, and that he wanted my personal information.' He never spoke to me, or any of the skype chat; he simply spoke to exodusquared about it, and then went on his anti-ptp smear campain.

Had Azazel been present during the conversation, he would understand that the links were not posted for the purpose of disgusting anyone, but simply to confirm that indeed Z and exodusquared were correct in saying that there is Child Porn on 4chan an other xchan sites.

This entire situation has been blown WAY out of proportion by Azazel, instead of speaking to me, he has created an anti-ptp internet war for his own benefit. Regardless of this explanation, I have since been removed from PTP and my server access removed. I don't have much of a problem with this since my relationship with various PTP staff and site members has caused me to reconsider my involvement prior to this issue.

At the end of the day, I am providing this explanation to A immediately stop all of the 'mud slinging against PTP', regardless of my former association with the tracker, this incident was between a few friends, and does not have ANYTHING to do with PTP. B, I would like to make sure that everyone understand that I do not want the internet community to turn around and go after Azazel for down right lieing; the more the situation is spoken of, the worse it becomes. C, the actions that occurred do not violated US Federal law, as distribution must be of the material, and not the link. If it was against the law to simply link to child pornography, then google would have been in jail years ago. Thus while perhaps the links should not have been posted, not even in private; this action does not violate any laws. D, I would like to ask that this thread, and all others started from it stop immediately the association that Pham's child is in any way related to this incident, the comment was generated by Azazel, and I have IRC logs to prove it.

This being said, I hope that the community can move past this incident, and that PTP will continue to flourish; despite my lack of involvement. I would like to also remind PTP staff, that your lack of trust in me, and not asking me first about the incident before posting in a public forum disheartens me greatly.

Thank you very much for your time,
Spektormax
Former Founder and Sysop of PassThePopcorn.

[nnnnnn]

I have decided that it is time to explain my actions to the community as these accusations have gone long enough. The following is a brief summary of the events of the 24 hours leading up to the incident:
Around 1-4am the night before, Z and I were speaking about various RC2 related things. I had been asked by him to run some numbers for the new bonus points system. After getting tired of 'working', Z mentioned that he had a Virtual Machine with Windows 95 on it. After we played around with the Windows 95 machine, we proceeded to move on to his XP Virtual Machine. Because it was a virtual machine, we decided to see how many viruses we could get installed on it and then see how the hooked into the kernel, what they connected to etc. I decided that the best way to acquire a large amount of viruses was to visit adult sites, as many of them will have you download 'video.exe' or other similar dangerous files.

However, after having some difficulty finding a site that hosted a virus, we decided to simply google for 'porn tube'. After going down 2 pages of links, we decided to skip to page 9 or so in order to have a higher chance of finding a less reputable site. This is were we encountered to our surprise a huge amount of child pornographic pictures which we moved on from and continued to search for more viruses.

The next day Z, exodusquared and I were in a skype conversation, while Azazel was in the chat (he was NOT part of the call). After discussing more RC2 related material, I had mentioned to exodusquared that Z and I had stumbled upon Child Porn on the internet, and that I was surprised how unhidden it was. Exodus and Z mentioned that its much more likely to stumble upon Child Porn on 4chan. To my disbelief after refreshing /b a few times, I did see child porn and some links to '510chan'. I posted a link to the tread as well a copy of the links in the thread, and asked if they thought these were child porn.

Approximately 5 minutes later I was informed by exodusquared that Azazel had contacted him over IRC and said that he was 'sickened by me, that he was going to leave PTP, and that he wanted my personal information.' He never spoke to me, or any of the skype chat; he simply spoke to exodusquared about it, and then went on his anti-ptp smear campain.

Had Azazel been present during the conversation, he would understand that the links were not posted for the purpose of disgusting anyone, but simply to confirm that indeed Z and exodusquared were correct in saying that there is Child Porn on 4chan an other xchan sites.

This entire situation has been blown WAY out of proportion by Azazel, instead of speaking to me, he has created an anti-ptp internet war for his own benefit. Regardless of this explanation, I have since been removed from PTP and my server access removed. I don't have much of a problem with this since my relationship with various PTP staff and site members has caused me to reconsider my involvement prior to this issue.

At the end of the day, I am providing this explanation to A immediately stop all of the 'mud slinging against PTP', regardless of my former association with the tracker, this incident was between a few friends, and does not have ANYTHING to do with PTP. B, I would like to make sure that everyone understand that I do not want the internet community to turn around and go after Azazel for down right lieing; the more the situation is spoken of, the worse it becomes. C, the actions that occurred do not violated US Federal law, as distribution must be of the material, and not the link. If it was against the law to simply link to child pornography, then google would have been in jail years ago. Thus while perhaps the links should not have been posted, not even in private; this action does not violate any laws. D, I would like to ask that this thread, and all others started from it stop immediately the association that Pham's child is in any way related to this incident, the comment was generated by Azazel, and I have IRC logs to prove it.

This being said, I hope that the community can move past this incident, and that PTP will continue to flourish; despite my lack of involvement. I would like to also remind PTP staff, that your lack of trust in me, and not asking me first about the incident before posting in a public forum disheartens me greatly.

Thank you very much for your time,
Spektormax
Former Founder and Sysop of PassThePopcorn.

Nice to know what really happened. Thanks.

[gamesover]

This thing is getting old. Too much drama

[aen]

Yeah everyone gota chill.

Btw spektormax, thanks for posting.

[megabyteme]

Regardless of "back story" a TRULY STUPID THING TO DO!

Remember everyone... don't play with child porn. :facepalm:

[kavselj]

Regardless of "back story" a TRULY STUPID THING TO DO!

Remember everyone... don't play with child porn. :facepalm:

Exactly, don't play with it, fap to it

[Six66Mike]

So did you report the links you found to the authorities or not? All I give a shit about here is people stepping up & doing the right thing, and reporting illegal material they found.

BTW sending kiddie porn via email = felony. I'm sure the FBI wouldn't have a hard time categorizing linking/mass publishing on forums thanks to Azazel any differently.

[HavocCaused]

The next day Z, exodusquared and I were in a skype conversation, while Azazel was in the chat (he was NOT part of the call). After discussing more RC2 related material, I had mentioned to exodusquared that Z and I had stumbled upon Child Porn on the internet, and that I was surprised how unhidden it was. Exodus and Z mentioned that its much more likely to stumble upon Child Porn on 4chan. To my disbelief after refreshing /b a few times, I did see child porn and some links to '510chan'. I posted a link to the tread as well a copy of the links in the thread, and asked if they thought these were child porn.

Likely story, Is that the best you can come up with and why wasn't this mentioned by exodusquared and Z days ago?

[Quarterquack]

Havoc nailed it. For such an "inactive staffer" you sure were involved in RC2 material, A LOT. Why wasn't Azazel told of this when he contacted both Sys-Ops? Why weren't we told this story instead of the Sys-Ops saying "We told him to stop!"

You don't answer "You're right there's a lot of CP on *chans, here look at this" with "stop that's disgusting dude" especially if the latter person is who told you where to go look for it, in the first place.

Did it actually take you this long to come up with this pathetic lie? You should have really gone down the "My brother did it" road.