Закрылся сайт Bootlegzone

Предлагаю сходить по этой ссылке: http://www.bootlegzone.com/
Пока не много, но СКОРО!!!

Форум уже работает. Ура!

Уже и сам сайт доступен!
http://www.bootlegzone.com/index.php
Ура!

YES!!! It's WORKING NOW!!!!

Ура!

Кто зареген на их форуме? Хотелось бы почитать о сложившейся ситуации отсюда: http://www.bootlegzone.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10382

2Caterpillar
А что без регистрации нельзя зайти как гость?
Тогда копирую обращение хозяина сайта, открывшего его лет 10 назад:

Hello dear all,

Let me start by thanking properly Herbert (aral2 here on BZ). Without him, you would not be reading this. Herbert, really, you're the man.

So .... you're probably wondering what happened, what's happening and what will happen ...

Why was BZ closed so unexpectedly ? ... ok here's the (really long) (and boring I'm afraid) story...
It's been 3 years since my last news on BZ ... Three years that I've been paying for the server. Oh, no it's not all about money. Really. I've been able to afford the server for years and I could still do it but why pay for something that doesn't give me anything back in return ? I've not much interest in bootlegs anymore, I do not seek new trades, I do not wish to learn more about that extra second of "Ticket To Ride" on the Egyptian version of the "Help!" LP, I'm just happy with what I have now (though I still hope that the 27 minutes version of Helter Skelter will be out someday )

During those years, although it was hard to tell, I was around. I was watching BZ grow a gigantic database ! I was kinda proud: I had nothing to do and the site was growing by itself thanks to its visitors.

As long as Paypal could be used to receive a donation from time to time, everything was ok. Then PayPal suddendly realised that BZ was about bootlegs and they decided to suspend my account. After dozens of emails with some robots, they were still convinced that the money I was receiving was payment of bootlegs or was used to provide mp3 downloads.

Ok. No PayPal. Nothing to get from that webserver. And that was back in 2005 ! Since then I've been thinking of closing BZ but the decision was really hard to take. Then in October 2006 I decided that I should at least complete the "admin" section of BZ: allow super users to post news, create new artists sections, etc. I began writing some code but real life came back at me and I had to delay any coding... Time passed ... then one day at the end of February I received an email from the webserver hosting company telling me that the bandwidth for BZ had exceeded 1000Gb for the month and that I would have to pay an extra $0.5/Gb. What was happening ? I don't know. Maybe someone with a website leecher ? Or maybe the server was hacked in a way or another.
Scared and pissed off, I was watching the counter explode to 1250Gb in just a few hours. Enough ! I had to stop the bleeding. That's when I posted the "BZ is closed" message. I admit it was more an angry decision than a rational decision. But it worked: instantly the counter stopped. There really was something happening with BZ. To this day I still don't know what happened.

Was I really closing BZ for good ? Even I wasn't too sure. I began to think of ways to get money to pay for the server. It was obvious to me that as long as BZ would talk about bootlegs I would have the same problems I had with PayPal: Google would not want to be associated with BZ. Neither would Amazon. Or any other. The idea became clear: if I wanted BZ to survive I had to make another website about a "more legal" subject and use PayPal/Google/Amazon on this website. But what kind of website ? Will I have to do it all from scratch again ? That would mean more work. Ouch. Maybe something like a Wiki ? BZ is a kind of wiki: visitors post info, visitors check info, visitors fix info, all info is cross-referenced ... But a Wiki about what ? No idea.
I gave myself till the end of March to find an easy (?) do-able idea. Until then I would still pay the webserver... but in April if I have no idea then I would resign the webserver and BZ would be gone for good ... the end of March was approaching ...

Then aral2 rang on my door and you know the rest ... basically he proposed to raise funds, donations and send them to me to help save BZ. He also gave me back my faith in BZ and the will to improve the website.

What's happening right now ? Why is BZ still offline ? I have to settle one or two things and BZ will be as you've left it. Only one month older It will be back online before Friday.

What will happen now ? Will BZ close again ? Not likely. Except maybe if I'm attacked by a bunch of lawyers ... let's cross our fingers ...

And then ? Well, next week I'm off to vacation so you won't see me around but when I return (around April 10) one of my first tasks will be to rent a newer, faster, more powerful and most of all, cheaper webserver.

While aral2 continues to collect funds for the BZ-o-thon (), I will finish the coding of the "admin" part of BZ so new artists sections can be created by special users etc.

But most of all I have another project: I would like to create a Beatles (and solo ?) wiki. This project could be totally legal, have links to Amazon, ads from Google and a donation banner to Paypal and aral2 could stop raising money. I will give more details about this BeatlesWiki in a special thread on this forum very soon -- . (here) Please read it because I will need your help for something possibly bigger than BZ.

Well, that's all for tonight ... if you have something to ask, request or say, simply use this thread.

-tilleul

PS: proofreading this message, I realised I have not apologised for this long "BZ is closed" month. Consider it done. I'll write a hundred times "I will not close BZ again" ... [/url]

Спасибо, Вад!

Вероятно, парень сам перемудрил с кодом, или действительно кибер-хулиганье...

2Вад:
>А что без регистрации нельзя зайти как гость?
Да, сейчас все форумы открыты для чтения/писАния только для зарегистрированных пользователей. В ближайшее время Tilleul сказал, что откроет часть форума, посвященную сайту, для чтения без регистрации.

2Caterpillar:
>Вероятно, парень сам перемудрил с кодом, или
>действительно кибер-хулиганье...
Думаю, все-таки либо несколько человек сразу качали сайт целиком, либо "хулиганье". Сам Tilleul не занимался сайтом с конца 2003-го года,
он даже устыдился как все архаично на нем выглядит и действует.

2Andrey:

>Думаю, все-таки либо несколько человек сразу
>качали сайт целиком, либо "хулиганье". Сам Tilleul
>не занимался сайтом с конца 2003-го года,
>он даже устыдился как все архаично на нем выглядит
>и действует.

Больше террабайта(!!!) за несколько часов. Сомнительно, что это были обычные "качки"...
Он пишет, что в октябре 2006 начал писать новый код админской секции.

2Caterpillar:
>Больше террабайта(!!!) за несколько часов. Сомнительно,
>что это были обычные "качки"...
Качать можно специальными программами целиком сайты (например, Teleport Pro) больше террабайта - было за месяц, а за несколько часов - перевалило за 1250ГБ, т.е. добавилось 250ГБ. Хотя, все равно цифра внушает...

>Он пишет, что в октябре 2006 начал писать новый
>код админской секции.
Писать код - не значит обновлять его на сервере. Писать код можно и локально.
Потом, писал он его в октябре 2006, а трафик стал переваливать за террабайт в марте. Сейчас сайт снова открыт и не похоже, что траффик такой же большой, как месяц назад - иначе бы он об этом сказал.

Так что, скорее всего, имела место хакерская атака...
Все равно, правду мы теперь вряд ли узнаем ;-)

2Andrey:

>Все равно, правду мы теперь вряд ли узнаем ;-)
Согласен =)

>Will BZ close again ? Not likely. Except maybe if I'm attacked by a bunch of lawyers ... let's cross our fingers ...
Дружно зачураемся, братцы =)

2Вад:
>А что без регистрации нельзя зайти как гость?

Tilleul открыл доступ для чтения без регистрации на форуме BootlegZone следующих подфорумов:
- Forums rules/policy
- Bootlegzone
- BZ sections management
- JADE

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ОТКРЫЛСЯ!!!

Чтобы не открывать новой темы.
Несколько дней назад закрылся мощный трекер Demonoid. Очень жаль...
Но есть и отличная новость: сайт JPGRMusic снова заработал!

2Andrey:

>Но есть и отличная новость: сайт JPGRMusic снова заработал!

Здорово! Спасибо за новость!

2Andrey: FANTASTIC NEWS!!!

По последним данным Demonoid снова открылся!

Демоноида пока нет, но скоро будет.
Вот что пишут "The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems - We'll be back soon".

Блин, опять отключили...
Будем надеяться, что все-таки он заработает.

Но хуже всего будет Канаде:
"We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this.
Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience"