Posts by Prophet

  • how to tell if you have a ps as a peer

    As to your original question how to tell if you have a ps as a peer


    I thought i would point out that if you use other sites to exchange which condone using payservers you should expect everything you get regards your own server getting hammered

  • Kim Dotcom says: Encrypted MegaChat is “Coming Soon”

    As 2014 draws to an end, encryption and privacy remain high on the agendas of many netizens. Cloud hosting service Mega has been building its reputation in this niche and is now preparing to deliver a new privacy tool. According to Kim Dotcom the company he founded will soon wave "bye bye" to ***pe with the debut of MegaChat.


    Following the revelations of systems administrator Edward Snowden, millions of eyes were opened to our online vulnerability. Total privacy, something presumed by many to be as simple as securing a password, was shown to be an easily shattered illusion.


    As the need for heightened security filtered down to the masses, companies stepped into the frame offering products and services to help people maintain their privacy online. VPN companies are still riding this wave of popularity and are now going to even greater lengths to assure customers of their commitment to security.


    Another company exploiting the security niche is Mega, the cloud-storage service founded by Kim Dotcom. While the flamboyant German reportedly has little to do with the company on a day to day basis, his family still owns shares in the operation. And for a company with a zero dollar marketing spend, Dotcom remains a valuable promotional asset.


    In one of his regular updates, this morning the Megaupload founder announced that Mega is preparing to launch a new product into the communications market.


    “Mega will soon release a fully encrypted and browser based video call & chat service including high-speed file transfers. Bye bye ***pe,” Dotcom teased.


    Although no official announcement has been made, it’s believed that the product will be called “MegaChat”, a naming convention that would certainly fit with previous Dotcom projects.


    The service will offer end-to-end encryption and, reading between the lines of Dotcom’s statements, won’t be based in the backyard of his arch-rivals.


    “No US based online service provider can be trusted with your data. ***pe has no choice. They must provide the US Government with backdoors,” Dotcom says.


    While clearly ambitious, Mega is already somewhat behind with plans for expansion outside of its core business of encrypted file-storage. It was previously reported that Mega’s chat/video product would be released to the public in the second quarter of 2014. Its encrypted email service is also yet to see the light.


    That being said, an early 2015 release for “MegaChat” would be a welcome development for the company. After first announcing plans to go public in March 2014, Mega now has eyes on an early 2015 NZX listing.


    The listing is planned via a reverse takeover of NZ-based TRS Investments but that too has not run entirely smoothly. A shareholders’ vote at the company has been pushed back several times and is not expected to arrive sooner than the end of January.


    For investors, potential is there. Mega currently has in excess of 15 million users and while the majority take advantage of the company’s free product, upgrades become more likely as users warm to the service. The advent of additional services will also boost its appeal but the hope is they will also improve the company’s bottom line.


    Earlier this month Mega chief executive Graham Gaylard told Stuff that the company is not yet making money and is instead focusing on growth. However, there is profit to be made in this sector and it seems likely that the company will secure and develop its position during 2015.

  • MPAA Considered Pulling Out of UK Pirate Notice Program

    This year the entertainment industries reached agreement with the UK government to begin sending warning notices to Internet pirates. However, TorrentFreak has learned that the MPAA considered pulling out, fearful that the so-called VCAP scheme might prove ineffective.


    One of the cornerstones of modern online piracy schemes are so-called ‘copyright alert’ programs. The idea is simple – rightsholders monitor online file-sharing networks, capture IP addresses of alleged pirates and have ISPs send warnings to subscribers.


    Several countries in the world currently operate these systems. France was one of the pioneers but the largest project is handled with the cooperation of the largest ISPs in the United States. In the summer a new deal was reached between the music and movie industries and the government to bring notices to the UK.


    However, TorrentFreak has learned that just three months earlier Hollywood was getting cold feet over the scheme. Leaked emails reveal that the MPAA was giving consideration to the consequences of pulling out of VCAP (or delaying it by 18 months) due to the group not having enough information on the effectiveness of notice-only, no punishment schemes.


    Since consequences could include political fallout due to UK government involvement in VCAP, the MPAA decided to send former Senator Chris Dodd to the UK. Dodd met Ed Vaizey, the UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, and Tim Luke, Prime Minister David Cameron’s Senior Policy Advisor, in the first week of March 2014.


    Dodd returned with plenty of praise for Vaizey whose apparent efforts in paving the way for site blocking and attacking the finances of pirate sites were showing results. Nevertheless, there were sticking points.


    It appears that a notice-only warning system, one in which subscribers aren’t punished for their actions, was not something the MPAA aspired to. This left the MPAA wondering whether launching VCAP quickly would be a favorable thing to do.


    Interestingly, Dodd also made it clear to Vaizey that the MPAA was seriously considering the political implications of when VCAP should begin, a point not lost on the politicians.


    Both Vaizey and Luke felt that if notices only started going out in the months preceding the May 2015 general election that would be an unwelcome development. A delay on notice-sending until the fall of 2015 was preferred all round.


    Whatever happened in the interim period, in May news leaked that an agreement had been reached and by June the MPAA were confirming internally that a Memorandum of Understanding had indeed been signed.


    Despite public comments welcoming the VCAP agreement it seems clear that the MPAA would prefer a system with account suspensions and disconnections. For now, however, that is not on the agenda.


    At this point it appears Hollywood will give VCAP time to work, but could pull out at a later point if the public simply isn’t getting the message.

  • North Korea calls Obama a 'monkey' as it blames US for internet shutdown

    http://www.theguardian.com/wor…-us-for-internet-shutdown


    North Korea calls Obama a 'monkey' as it blames US for internet shutdown




    North Korea has compared President Barack Obama to a monkey and blamed the US for recent internet shutdowns, amid the hacking row over the movie The Interview.


    According to Chinese state media, North Korea suffered another internet shutdown for at least two hours on Saturday.


    “At Pyongyang time 7.30 pm (5.30am ET) North Korea’s internet and mobile 3G network came to a standstill, and had not returned to normal as of 9.30pm,” Xinhua news agency reported.


    Xinhua’s reporters in North Korea found that the internet was “very unstable” throughout the day, the report added.


    The White House declined to comment.


    North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures, but has expressed fury over The Interview, which depicts the assassination of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. Sony initially called off the release of the film, citing threats of terror attacks against US cinemas. Obama criticised the decision, and the movie opened this past week.


    On Saturday, the North’s powerful National Defense Commission, which is led by Kim and is the country’s top governing body, said Obama was behind the release of The Interview. It described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary.


    “Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,” an unidentified spokesman at the commission’s policy department said in a statement carried by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency.


    It is not the first time North Korea has used crude insults against Obama and other top US and South Korean officials. Earlier this year, the North called US secretary of state John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous” lantern jaw and South Korean president Park Geun-hye a prostitute. In May, the North’s official news agency published a dispatch saying Obama has the “shape of a monkey”.


    The defense commission also blamed Washington for intermittent outages of North Korean websites this past week, which happened after the US had promised to respond to the Sony hack. The US government has declined to say if it was behind the shutdown.


    According to the North Korean commission’s spokesman, “the US, a big country, started disturbing the internet operation of major media of the DPRK, not knowing shame like children playing tag”.


    DPRK refers to the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.


    The commission said the movie was the result of a hostile US policy toward North Korea, and threatened the US with unspecified consequences.


    North Korea and the US remain technically in a state of war because the Korean War, which was fought between 1950 and 1953, ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The rivals also are locked in an international standoff over the North’s nuclear and missile programmes and its alleged human rights abuses.


    The US stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea as deterrence against North Korean aggression.

  • Openbox A5S


    Do you have another usb stick you could try ?

  • Hundreds of Pirate Bay Copies Emerge, Is The Hydra Alive?

    While the Pirate Bay's domain continues to wave a pirate flag, there's no sign of a pending return yet. However, many supporters of the notorious torrent site are keeping its torrents widely available. In just a week nearly 400 Pirate Bay copies have appeared online. But is the Hydra really alive?


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    More than two weeks have passed since The Pirate Bay’s servers were pulled offline and it remains doubtful if the site will ever return in its full glory.


    A few days ago The Pirate Bay showed signs of life again when the domain name started waving a pirate flag. While this created plenty of mystery, there are still no torrents to be found on the site.


    For now, it’s Pirate Bay supporters carrying the Kopimi spirit and keeping the “Hydra” seemingly alive and kicking. Chop one head off and new ones will grow back, making the beast stronger and stronger.


    This week, most of the Pirate Bay copies have been growing from Isohunt.to’s OpenBay project. Thus far nearly 400 Pirate Bay clones have launched and the people behind the initiative say that OpenBay is currently the most popular project on developer platform GitHub.


    “Since it’s launch The Open Bay has drawn a lot of attention. As a result it’s placed as #1 on GitHub. During recent weeks 372 Open Bays have been created,” the Isohunt.to team inform us.


    “Our current goal is to not only make it open source, but eventually provide a fully decentralized torrent database for the community,” they add.


    Although Isohunt told us that they’re not in contact with TPB, the Pirate Bay crew appears to appreciate the efforts. After all, the pirate flag that’s waving on the official Pirate Bay domain comes from OpenBay.


    Isohunt.to is happy with this support and is now calling on developers to improve and expand the code, to support bigger and better torrent sites.


    “We’re glad that the original ThePirateBay founders are supporting us waving the pirate flag and the hash tag #CodeOpenBay. We hope that the community will step in and the new era will begin,” Isohunt.to tells us.


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    The question is, however, whether or not copies are going to be good enough. When Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde talked about the Hydra concept 7.5 years ago he wasn’t referring to copies, but entirely new sites with their own communities.


    “Start up your own torrent sites, make the Internet the hydra it is and needs to be. If there’s hundreds of sites, they can’t all be shut down,” he said, pointing out that the torrent community was relying too heavily on TPB.


    Seen through this lens, the hundreds of TPB copies that sprang up in recent days are pretty much useless. That is, until they become thriving communities of their own. Simply having a copy of the torrent listings isn’t going to be good enough.


    Sticking with the Hydra mythology, if Pirate Bay copies are new heads then they’re on top of a dead beast for now. In this flawed analogy the Pirate Bay raid didn’t just cut off a head, it killed the beast itself.


    The Pirate Bay’s real value were the uploaders and moderators, and these can’t simply be copied.


    The real Hydra is something much broader. It is the entire BitTorrent ecosystem where The Pirate Bay was just one of the many heads, living alongside other popular torrent sites.


    Only time can tell whether this Hydra is indeed alive and kicking.

  • Playstation, Xbox and Amazon Hacked - private details of 13,000 people spread online

    Playstation, Xbox and Amazon leaks: Hackers claim to have spread private details of 13,000 people online


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    Hacked: Affected services included of Xbox Live, Sony Playstation Network and Twitch.tv


    Hackers claim to have leaked the details of more than 13,000 Playstation, Xbox and online stores users.


    Details are said to include username and passwords, credit car numbers and expiry dates and details ripped from pornography sites.


    The hackers claim to be connected to anarchist group Anonymous.


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    Hackers claimed on twitter to have released 13,000 account details


    Affected services included of Xbox Live, Sony Playstation Network and Twitch.tv.


    Online stores such as Amazon and Walmart are also said to have been targeted.


    The group told their followers that they hacked the account details 'for the Lulz', according to Dailydot.com.


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    Hackers claimed on twitter to have released 13,000 account details


    The hackers are believed to have used a denial of service attack, where they bombard the targets servers with internet traffic.


    This forces the sites to shut down and prevent legitimate access.


    They also uploaded controversial film The Interview to a file-sharing website after ripping it from Sony.


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    They also have ripped a version of film 'The Interview'


    The latest online breech comes after thousands of people were unable to enjoy their gaming systems over Christmas .


    A group calling itself the Lizard Squad brought down online networks.


    They claimed to have carried out the cyberattack to expose weaknesses in the networks’ security.

  • Sony About to Get Sued For Pirating Music in The Interview

    As the controversy surrounding the The Interview continues, a singer is claiming that after failing to reach terms with Sony, the company put her music in the movie anyway. After receiving not a penny from the movie giant, Yoon Mi Rae is now set to sue. Meanwhile, 1.5 million pirates have downloaded the comedy.


    The way things are panning out, the Sony movie The Interview is on course to become one of the most controversial movies of all time.


    The comedy, which depicts the violent death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, made headlines worldwide when the so-called Guardians of Peace hacking group threatened Sony if it was released. Facing what amounted to a “terrorist” threat, theaters all around the U.S. backed away from showing The Interview in the week leading up to Christmas.


    After pulling the movie completely, Sony had a change of heart and on Christmas Eve released the music online via YouTube, Google Play and Xbox Live. Predictably the movie was quickly gobbled up by pirates, with the latest figures suggesting that in just two days the movie has been downloaded 1.5 million times.


    But while Sony deals with rampant piracy issues at one end, it’s now facing copyright infringement allegations of its own. According to new claims, Sony used copyrighted music in The Interview without permission and without compensating an artist.


    Yoon Mi-rae (real name Natasha Shanta Reid) is a US-born hip hop and R&B singer who currently releases music on the Feel Ghood Music label. In January 2013 as part of MFBTY (My Fans Better Than Yours), the 33-year-old hit the number 1 spot in the Korean Music Charts and in September reached the same heights on Billboard’s Kpop Hot 100 list with her song ‘Touch Love’.


    But while these recognitions were achieved by fans buying her music, she’s now in the spotlight for not getting paid for her work. It appears that Yoon Mi-rae was in negotiations with Sony to have her track ‘Pay Day’ appear in The Interview. Even though no agreement was reached, Sony used the music anyway.


    “There were initial discussions for using ‘Pay Day‘ in the movie, but at some point, the discussions ceased and we assumed that it would not follow through,” Feel Ghood Music says.


    “However, after the movie was released, we learned that the track had been used without permission, legal procedure, or contracts.”


    Sony, who are already facing a world of pain following the hacking and near destruction of their IT systems in recent weeks, will now face a copyright infringement lawsuit over the unauthorized use of the ironically named ‘Pay Day’.


    “We will be taking legal action against Sony Pictures as well as DFSB, the agency that had been carrying out the discussion regarding the use of the track,” the label says.


    It seems unlikely that this lawsuit will result in a messy legal battle. The huge publicity the movie has enjoyed in the past few weeks will virtually guarantee decent sales for Sony, even without lucrative box office revenues. Yoon Mi-rae should not only be able to secure a piece of that but also raise her profile in a way that would not have been possible had Sony paid her in the first instance.

  • Kim “Santa” Dotcom Stops Xbox and Playstation Attacks

    Mega founder Kim Dotcom has saved Christmas for many Playstation and Xbox gamers. In what he describes as a Christmas Miracle, Kim Dotcom appears to have stopped Lizard Squad's DDoS attacks by handing out 3,000 vouchers for premium Mega accounts, worth $99 a piece.


    When Xbox and Playstation players wanted to test their Christmas gifts a few hours ago, they were welcomed by an unpleasant surprise.


    Lizard Squad, who repeatedly DDoSed the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live’s servers in recent months, were back with a Christmas gift nobody asked for. Another DDoS attack resulting in yet more downtime.


    One of the affected players was Kim Dotcom, who’s an avid Xbox player himself. But instead of cursing Lizard Squad to high heaven he decided to make them an offer.


    Although the general belief may be that it’s best not to negotiate with “terrorists,” Dotcom decided to give it a try.


    “Hi @LizardMafia, I want to play #Destiny on XBOX Live. I’ll give your entire crew Mega lifetime premium vouchers if you let us play. Cool?” he tweeted


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    Lizard Squad is apparently easy to please as they were willing to stop the attacks in return for 3,000 free cloud hosting vouchers.


    After getting approval from Mega’s management, Dotcom and Lizard Squad eventually came to terms through Twitter’s back-channel.


    Once the vouchers were in Lizard Squad’s possession, the attacks did indeed slow down and Christmas was saved. While some still experienced some outages due to the earlier attacks, many players were able to join their favorite games again.


    “Thanks @KimDotcom for the vouchers–you’re the reason we stopped the attacks. @MegaPrivacy is an awesome service,” Lizard Squad tweeted, confirming the successful intervention.


    Dotcom, meanwhile, is happy that he can play Destiny but wishes that his other troubles could be resolved this easily too. Whether the U.S. Department of Justice will accept Mega vouchers is doubtful though.


    “Obviously, diplomacy works. I recommend that the U.S. Government gives it a try. #MakeLoveNotWar #UseMegaVouchers,” Kim noted.


    Of course there’s no guarantee that Lizard Squad will keep their promise during the days to come, but Dotcom said he will render the vouchers useless if attacks resume.


    Merry Christmas everyone…

  • The Interview Is A Pirate Hit With 200k Downloads

    The unexpected release of The Interview is making headlines around the world, but for now only people inside the U.S. can see the film. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 200,000 people have already circumvented this restriction by turning to torrent sites where the film appeared just an hour after its official release. Even The Pirate Bay joined in and started pointing people to the movie as well.


    theinterviewFacing a “terrorist” threat theaters all around the U.S. backed away from showing The Interview last week.


    Sony Pictures was left with no other option than to find online platforms to show the controversial movie to a broad audience during the holidays, and they eventually did.


    Yesterday afternoon news broke that the film was available for streaming on YouTube, Google Play and Xbox Live. A group of hackers shouldn’t be able to chill freedom of speech, Sony and Google reasoned.


    “…after discussing all the issues, Sony and Google agreed that we could not sit on the sidelines and allow a handful of people to determine the limits of free speech in another country,” Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond commented.


    Unfortunately, however, this free speech can only be heard by the U.S. public for now. People outside of the States will have to wait for weeks or months to see a film that was “trending” worldwide on Christmas eve.


    And that’s where another group of self proclaimed freedom fighters come in.


    Shortly after the first stream was made public various pirated copies quickly started to populate torrent sites and other sharing platforms.


    Even The Pirate Bay jumped in by adding the hash of The Interview’s torrents to the top left corner of it’s site, linking it to a Google search. In addition, the site added a cartoon picture of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.


    With The Interview making headlines for several weeks, it’s clear there’s a massive interest in the film. This is reflected download statistics too.


    Data collected by TorrentFreak shows that The Interview was downloaded more than 200.000 times though BitTorrent during the first 10 hours it was available, and this number is still growing rapidly.


    Browsing through the commentary on various torrent sites we see that restricted availability is a common topic.


    “Just signed up to say Thanks, since it was not released outside of US when it should be all at the same time. Will now be finally able to watch this,” one downloader told his peers.


    Considering the unique situation, it’s a real shame that Sony didn’t seize this opportunity to try a worldwide debut. It would have certainly brought in extra revenue.


    Yes, of course, those who pirate the movie are breaking the law in most countries. But honestly, is it really a surprise that so many people outside the U.S. are prepared to cross the line to see a movie tied to one of the biggest news stories of the year?