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Clickbait garbage: According to Alexa the site is ranked as the 209,334 most visited site in the world, and the 3,945 most popular site in The Netherlands.
Clickbait garbage: According to Alexa the site is ranked as the 209,334 most visited site in the world, and the 3,945 most popular site in The Netherlands.
As the first possibility is impossible to nkow (if nobody knows about them...), I agree with you and vote clickbait !
Here is the real question everybody should ask themselves: In today’s world, Why do I try to work honestly for a dollar?
In life, son, you have two choices : you work or make money
> According to another source, a public address book at locatefamily.com, someone under the name Vladimir S. Nesterenko is living at [REDACTED] in Moscow. Vladimir lives according to Google Streetview it’s an apartment complex far away from the Moscow city center... Really? Someone investigating with journalists, and may be considered a journalists themselves (?), actually publishes the address of someone that they a…
It's extremely likely that this person isn't responsible for the website, or knows anything about it. Criminal or shady activities in Russia (and everywhere else) are often laundered through cutouts. You can find an example of this in "Magnitsky act: behind the scenes" where Bill Browder allegedly laundered his corporate holdings for tax fraud through various handicapped people, and eventually gangsters who were conv…
Why would a Russian individual host his, rather shady, operation in the smack dab middle of Germany, and not somewhere in eastern Europe? Why would an individual like that, who goes through the effort of obfuscating Google analytics code, leave the domain registry information out in the open like that? Imho none of this really adds up, the whole setup seems to be quite complex and sophisticated, I have a hard time be…
Here is the real question everybody should ask themselves: In today’s world, Why do I try to work honestly for a dollar?
When we are dishonest in our moneymaking, we are probably creating unnecessary suffering for others. That's enough reason for some.
IMO it also feels easier to love and be loved (e.g. by friends, family, your children, etc.) if you are honest in your dealings with others.
I read through the article and I’m baffled. I couldn’t watch the news video or understand what was going on at the bottom of the post... but were news outlets and the government involved for a site that’s skimming PDFs, hosting them and then slapping on ads? This isn’t something new and if I recall correctly SlideShare did the same thing to grow to where they are today. Is it legal, I don’t know, but these types of s…
From the article: "Multiple tax files of Dutch citizens had been published via www.docplayer.nl" I don't speak or read Dutch, so I couldn't watch the video clip, but my guess is these tax files contained important and sensitive information. They were probably scraped from a government website.
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I get the impression ATM that copyright infringement is legal as long as nobody complains. When one person complains or files a DMCA takedown notice, no problem, it gets taken down. It needs to be a big company's documents - like Elsevier or (in the Bittorrent era) music publishers - before a major legal action is undertaken to take a site offline. TL;DR it's not a crime if nobody complains. Now that someone complain…
> I get the impression ATM that copyright infringement is legal as long as nobody complains. Copyright infringement is never legal. Yes, it's often not enforced until someone complains, but there is a difference between enforcement and legality. > TL;DR it's not a crime if nobody complains. It is a crime even if nobody complains, you're just not getting caught or reprimanded. It is possible to hurt someone without ge…
Why would a Russian individual host his, rather shady, operation in the smack dab middle of Germany, and not somewhere in eastern Europe? Why would an individual like that, who goes through the effort of obfuscating Google analytics code, leave the domain registry information out in the open like that? Imho none of this really adds up, the whole setup seems to be quite complex and sophisticated, I have a hard time be…
Ready, set, go! Let's see how many scrapers HN readers will build now to try to copy this "business" model.