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Dear registered user of the site What.cd, We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for the sole purpose of music piracy. Pirating music is a criminal offence and we believe it should be obvious to you that the results outweigh the benefits - hard working artists won't be rewarded for their work and will stop producing music, ultimately leading to a severely reduced selection of music both in the shops and for download. The RIAA had hoped that the disabling by the police of the large illegal music site, Oink.cd, would stop a lot of people from engaging in piracy, as they don't want to be seen as criminals. However, this appears to not be the case, as two large new sites have sprung up in its place. This email is the final warning to all of you who were members of Oink.cd and are current members of What.cd. If we find you to be committing any more criminal acts of piracy then we will have to press charges against you, as representatives of the major record companies of America. Yours Faithfully, The RIAA |
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more than likely sent out by the same ppl who did all this: taken from what.cd news page. This week has been terrible. After we did two code audits and fixed our security issues, our wonderful attackers couldn't get in (yay!), so they turned to brute force. After having been hit by several port scans and a rather fearsome DDoS attack (traffic reaching almost 80 megabits per second (note: that's 10 megabytes per second)) our server pretty much went to hell. After an extended downtime (ending a couple hours ago) during which we tweaked firewall settings, etc., we decided that it was safe enough to bring the site back up. Pretty much immediately after the site came back up we had someone trying to brute force our (well passworded) ssh accounts (they've now met the hot burny side of the firewall). What have we learned from all this? That there is a person or a group of people somewhere that wants us to disappear. We originally thought that the attacks were by bored kids, but whoever was behind the DDoS appears to be much more serious than that. We aren't going to publicly speculate on who is behind the attacks - we'll leave that to you guys. Despite these attacks, we are still up and running, and we hope to stay this way for a very long time. We have plans for this site, and we aren't going to flush them down the drain just because some people don't like what we're doing. The first of our plans involves a very cool freeleech plan, but we're going to wait until we're sure the tracker's relatively stable for that. For the time being, we're keeping freeleech on until further notice. |
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yeah, a line has just been added above that post: Show/Hide ∼ Someone really doesn't like us! ∼ posted on Nov-12-07 by What Edit by DAQ: These fake RIAA Emails are just that. Fake. http://pastebin.ca/770503 Read that. |
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haiku: copyright bullshit tactics and countertactics a dumb gay arms race |
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i just got the email too, oh goody. i'm glad i used a hotmail account as i suspect the senders will spam these email address' with all sorts now. |
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totally deleted my account. *migrates to waffles* |
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what |
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is what.cd dead? |
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yea, but i guess it will come back |
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i declare this thread.. old. |
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this sucks, i cant even access the site now. who would do this? could it really be the riaa? |
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i have yet to get this mysterious email though. |
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nah, it was a hoax. |
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so can i download midge ughgre 'shat appa yer face' then ?? or will i be arrested for bad taste too? |
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since when do musicians earn money, don't they have jobs or something like that? |
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invite please thanks |
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freeleech from fri 19th 2000GMT!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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and great timing too. i havent had a computer of my own for the past couple months so i've built up a huge backlog of bookmarked albums to download, so now i can clear all that out and get some seeding power back on this shitty pc notebook. |
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man. what really pulled through. i remember around this time, what was really falling behind with waffles being the better organised/ more complete/more seeds torrent site. now compaire the two and waffles is kinda sad. amazing! |
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yeah, there is quite a lot to be found in the house genre. |
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i need a yummy waffles. please helps :> |
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what the hell |
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go a-fuckin-head |
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im so far behind :( /me downloads new kids on the block and dies in a pool of poor piss puter music |
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just one little waffle, give it to freqy..... deliciousoso potato goodness thru p2p la la la laaaaaaa la laaaaaaaaa... just one tiny wafflez, givez it to freqy'z :P love from freqy x |
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here's a big |
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nice ones raa |
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whatcd is a waffle anyways? i miss my pet pig. |
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