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One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by bcaa7f3a8bbc »

desdiv wrote: post #63
55555 wrote: post #54

The ad revenue estimate could be off by as much as an order of magnitude. This is a non-story. There are millions of spam websites on the internet.

Unlike most spam websites, this one actually provides a useful and helpful function. The next time I 404 on a PDF I'll be sure to search for it on this site.

Seriously, how long has he been online as an "ethical hacker"? For everyone who has the experience of looking for some texts should know that there are millions of this type of websites out there, the spam farms. Many of these sites don't even have the files (a common tactic is putting the links to your spamsite in a PDF, and name the PDF as some other documents people are looking for but you don't actually have, to disguise your spam as a file, polluting the search result for everyone, bastard!), and are just making the visitors to click ads, or scamming people to enter personal information, to pay for another related service or a premium account, and they can probably make more money. And some other websites are even distributing malicious software.

Meanwhile this website is actually an "honest" one that works for the visitors as advertised! I think it would be great injustice by selectively just enforcing the copyright laws by seizing this individual websites and its income. After all, 30% of the websites on the entire Internet are like this. I don't think the blog post really have a point.

Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by rukshn »

Whoever doing the slideplayer website is doing a damn good SEO.

I see more slideplayer links on my Google search everyday than I see SlideShare.

I always wondered why slideplayer which is a crappy ad galore website has more content than SlideShare. Very interesting post.

Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by alanlamm »

The article does not provide evidence that the users are fake (may well be true, but presumption of innocence applies). If they are not fake, and reports of copyright violation to the platform are duly considered, then it would appear to comply with DMCA in much the same way as Youtube or Facebook do - am I wrong?

Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by mcguire »

heinrichhartman wrote: post #73
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Following the same logic killing someone would also be legal as long as "nobody complains".

Not really.

Around here, some crimes and all civil matters require a complaint but other crimes, such as murder, can be prosecuted without one, on the state's own behalf.

Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by [deleted] »

scottlocklin wrote: post #77
shakna wrote: post #6

> 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…

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Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by dumbfounder »

alanlamm wrote: post #83

The article does not provide evidence that the users are fake (may well be true, but presumption of innocence applies). If they are not fake, and reports of copyright violation to the platform are duly considered, then it would appear to comply with DMCA in much the same way as Youtube or Facebook do - am I wrong?

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and acts like a duck, then it's probably a duck. But you still need an ornithologist to put that duck in jail. Or something like that.

Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by [deleted] »

scottlocklin wrote: post #77
shakna wrote: post #6

> 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…

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Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

bcaa7f3a8bbc wrote: post #81
desdiv wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike most spam websites, this one actually provides a useful and helpful function. The next time I 404 on a PDF I'll be sure to search for it on this site.

Seriously, how long has he been online as an "ethical hacker"? For everyone who has the experience of looking for some texts should know that there are millions of this type of websites out there, the spam farms. Many of these sites don't even have the files ( a common tactic is putting the links to your spamsite in a PDF, and name the PDF as some other documents people are looking for but you don't actually have, to…

This one is a little different. There's the blatant, willful copyright violation. And misrepresenting the doc authors as endorsing this website.

Re: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

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Post by antisthenes »

topoftheforts wrote: post #28
shakna wrote: post #6

> 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…

Yeah it's unacceptable, especially for someone who claims to be "ethical" in his bio: > About Sijmen Ruwhof Independent IT Security Researcher / Ethical Hacker

Whenever I see someone point out they are "ethical", it's always according to their own code of ethics that they are unwilling to ever discuss.

I used to be absolutist like that as well as a teenager. It's a shame when some adults don't grow out of it.

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