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Recently there was an uproar over a "time delay on the password" idea in an attempt to "protect" the longevity of an upload link to a sharing host -- this idea is ROYALLY FSCKED and counter-productive.

When the publishers / owners of the original goods want to go hunting to see who's distributing their product illegitimately, they search by their product's name or minor variations, and/or add the name of well known cracking / distro groups, and thanks to the huge number of unprotected wares-boards, blogs, rapidlibrary clones and other file-sharing aggregators, they will get a ton of hits. They will follow each link, find the openly-published RS/FF/MU/HL link, and go crying to the sharing host who will happily kill the upload. If you call your archive by some meaningless name, they're not going to find it unless they join every wares-board and go looking manually -- not going to happen (except the biggies, *i'm not spamming the site* and bubba's), because its too much like hard work, and searching for the name will get 95% of the "illegals" anyway.

There is a MUCH better way to protect an upload, both Mr Audioz and Captain Ozmosis (what a hero!) know the right way to do it, and it's a simple process:

1) MOST IMPORTANT!! The original installer(s) are re-archived using 'store' (no compression) into a new archive and given a name that is a semi-meaningless jumble of letters and digits that bears ABSOLUTELY NO RELATION to the name of the product, the name of the cracking group, or any other hint as to what is inside. Also, you must NOT add the website or blog's name to the archive!

2) Password-protect the new archive, and post your article so that both the full download link(s) AND the password are only viewable by registered members. This stops the Google search-spiders from picking it up and storing it in their cache, which in turn would be read by the file-sharing aggregators.

3a) When posting an article for your new upload DO NOT USE THE ORIGINAL DISTRO TITLE IN YOUR ARTICLE TITLE, NOR IN THE ARTICLE ITSELF! This is what the owners will be searching for, and the titles of posted articles are visible to the Google engines. Example: If you found a new synth you want to share and its original archive name is "ASSFX.MegaSynthy.1.0.5.VST.Working.ASSINE" then you should use the topic "ASS FX Mega Synth 1.0.5 VST". If you use a name that looks exactly the same as how the publisher uses it, their little anti-wares beavers are not going to know if it is a wares entry, a product review, or an online shop.

3b) Optional: When creating the title for your posting, prefix the name with a code for which sharing host(s) is used, in square-brackets. [RS] for Rapidshare, [MU] for MegaUpload, and so on; the code for MultiUpload is [Multi]. If you use both Hotfile and FileFactory, you would use the code [HF/FF].

3c) UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you use the full content of an NFO file as the text for your article. Use some of the description (its been lifted from the publisher's product page anyway!) but be careful about mentioning keygen makers or crack makers.

SPECIAL NOTE TO BOARD ADMINS:
If you don't know what a "robots.txt" file is, or why your site needs one, read NOW. A few lines of text into a robots.txt file will stop those pesky search engine spiders from reading everything on the site.

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  guest -- 0
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PS: I think this should be a sticky, up with the 'cant be cracked' posting.
  Resident 17.04.2008 306
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i never understood why people used the actual names of the stuff they uploaded. *shrugs*
  guest -- 0
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All this info is already common knowledge! Just stating the obvious!
  Resident 28.07.2009 6 350
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Already tried and tested. Good for newer boards maybe. Not much useful against in house spies in an already known place like this. no
In that case the strategy used in the recent "Neck Sex" post is the only solution so far. winked
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happy in here... <^.^>
  Resident 1.01.2009 2 535
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has this punk ever uploaded anything here?
BOOM BAP HIP HOP ALL F*CKING DAY!
  Resident 9.06.2009 2 26
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lol I didn't know I caused an uproar, but then I really don't care. This shit is way more on demand than they way it used to be. Try waiting in line for days on an fserve to download a couple meg vst split into a couple rars at maybe a couple Kbps, forget about trying to get sample iso unless you're lukcy enough to be a less than a couple layers down from the release group.
Jesus.. makes me sound like a crotchety old man lol "you fucking kids these days!!"

In any event, while the OPs post is great practice that everyone should be employing, it still leaves open the problem of those who've joined the boards simply to work to protect copyright.

If someone has a better idea for how to keep the links up longer, while at the same time thwarting the efforts of antipiracy spies, I'm all ears. Until then, I'm going to distribute things the way I see fit. This is not a democracy, it's a slightly benevolent dictatorship.

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