Norbits Hackers Threaten to Release User Info

[Blackbeard]

If it was not a torrent site, i'd report them to the fbi lame 12 year olds...

[TheFoX]

@ delimare and 222MHz.

Your points are valid, but don't forget that before BitTorrent, there was Kazaa and gnutella networks, along with grokster, napster and others.

Irrespective of the medium, people will find ways to share. If something new comes along to replace BT, then people will migrate to it, as people migrated from Kazaa to BT in the first place.

People know that there are places where you can get the latest film or CD, and they will search out until they find the resources they want. It doesn't matter if they join a Torrent site of discover scene axx. They will find a way.

This is why is is probably better to have several different layers, which helps dilute the heat. I still remember when Bit Torrent was not even considered a target, because the MPAA and RIAA were concentrating on Kazaa (fake files and viruses were their specialities of the day). Of course, with the demise of Kazaa as a reliable mechanism for sharing, the industry has turned to Bit Torrent sites.

Remember that scene axx is a lot harder to set up, and takes more knowledge than the average windows user posesses, which means the majority of file sharers will opt for the easier option of using a BT client and a web interface to share (BT sites). This is what I mean when I say that this offers a layer of protection.

Remember that the industry wants results, and while it would love to strike everyone down, it has limited resources. If it comes between hitting a scene group with several hundred members or a torrent site with several hundred thousand members, then you can guess which one they would target. You also have to remember that it is far easier to capture relevant data about filesharers from BT because everyone in the swarm is connected to everyone else, whereas ftp axx tends to be unidirectional (you only see the server box).

Pound for pound, taking down site like OiNK will pay more dividends (fear wise) than any other method of deterant.

[delimare]

It makes me wonder if the scene groups wish for the good old days, the days even before Napster, Kazaaa, Grokster and the others you mentioned. I wonder if it isn’t fear (fear of getting caught) that drives them to do this but something simpler, a desire for the simpler time when it was just a small group of privileged people who knew what the heck was going on. Imagine the pedestal that must have put them up on….

I know the basics of the scene but I do not know the intricate details, nor do I want to. Perhaps these sceners and release groups just need to accept the fact bit torrent is the majority and will be for years to come. They can hack and take down sites all they want but they achieve nothing. Take down one site and two more pop up. Like the rest of our world, things change and they are changing rapidly.

As the old saying goes, “If you can’t beat em, join em!”

[n0_0ne]

those assholes, I think it's funny that the hackers said "Once again we show our power!", lol. Protecting a site is a lot harder than hacking it, the sysop has to know all the exploits, but a hacker only needs to know one. And these hackers think that by shutting down one torrent site, no others will rise to take NBs place?

[lolier]

the sysop does not need to know all the exploits, he needs to be a programmer with a reasonable amount of knowledge and wisdom to modify and generate a specialised code from a dump code.

[Roooney]

Fuck this shit. Really miss this site, definately the best norwegian trackers.

[Roooney]

Fuck this shit. Really miss this site, definately the best norwegian tracker.

[killuminati96]

some observations:

1. these "hacker" geeks need to find girlfriends and get laid...BADLY!!!

2. “Once again we show our power! Once again we show your foolishness! <---gay..lay off the Star Trek geeks

3. these "hackers" are acting like little kids throwing a temper tantrum..sad..someone buy them some Clearasil

[Alien5]

“Enough is enough, you are becoming a real nuisance, and you are also a bunch of idiots that try to hide, so it’s high time we punish you! P2P is not something we want, when will you understand that? Do we have to take it as far as publishing your user database online?”

I think i understand it now...So what they're saying is: publishing the user database online will stop P2P?

Having a scene group mustn't be much fun after all, it would be like walking around with a sign saying "I UPLOAD WAREZ to P2P"

[Windy72]

This thread is bullshit (not having a go at thread starter). The scene are responsible for releasing their files onto BT. Simple really. I say remove scene tag on NFO that would give them even more to shout about. It is just plain bloody stupid attacking a p2p site. They cannot stop p2p it will go on and on forever.