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  • June 18, 2008 at 11:08 pm #71911
    greyfox
    Participant

    Hello All, I am new here, I was wondering if any of you could shed some light on banneds.org's apparent board dissaperence.

    Thanks in advance.

    (sorry, I didnt know it was banned)

    June 18, 2008 at 11:50 pm #71912
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    Yeah, I banned those Turkish pirate scum because they were forever spamming Amaz0ns.  And then after I banned them they used spam-forwarding to get in the back door.  Finally I banned much of the country of Turkey from accessing Amaz0ns, and that seems to have done it.

    June 18, 2008 at 11:58 pm #71913
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    In case anyone is wondering, we're talking about S-A-R-A-D-A-S.

    June 19, 2008 at 12:33 am #71914
    greyfox
    Participant

    Spamming is immature nonsense, they should have been banned.

    "Forum Saradas is now closed because of piracy & copyright infringement.  We are under investigation & urge our users to cooperate with authorities."

    On the homepage

    June 19, 2008 at 2:53 am #71915
    fasola
    Participant

    So, finnally somebody managed to shut down those thieves. I'm pleased, because as some other members of amaz0ns, i've been scoutiong that site and notifying the copyright infringment to the hostiong and file sharring sites.
    I say it was about time.

    June 19, 2008 at 4:36 am #71916
    randy guillotte
    Participant

    Best news I've heard all day. Now THAT'S "karma" for you…

    June 19, 2008 at 5:51 am #71917
    fungo09
    Participant

    Thats funny.

    June 19, 2008 at 8:24 pm #71918
    Tigersan
    Participant

    YES!!!!!!!!! atlast!!! Someone managed to close them down finally… One destroyer of our community less…

    ::)  Now I shall continue my life with joy…

    June 20, 2008 at 7:04 am #71919
    AbyssPlanet
    Participant

    BlackModelling (the owner) was always a douchebag. The hilarious part is, this "investigation for copyright infringement" came about after he made his entire forum private and "VIP only" (VIP meaning "someone who 'donates' to the forum"). And he had a common practice of taking high-content threads made by "regular" users and moving them to the "VIP only" section, where the regular users who made the thread in the first place couldn't even see their own content.

    Making the entire forum VIP only (and thus alienating 98% of the userbase) probably motivated more than a few users to report the forum to copyright holders. Hell, there were several actual Fitness and FBB personalities who held accounts there for whatever reason. Locking them out of a forum where BlackModelling was now charging people "donations" in order to see their content probably didn't make them very happy either.

    "randy guillotte" said it best. "Karma" indeed.

    That said, I don't know that I'd call the forum a "destroyer of our community". Yes, it undermined a lot of pay-sites with its openly shared content, and no, that wasn't okay. However, there were a LOT of users who contributed freely-available content from the Internet that wasn't from pay-sites. I actually learned about a lot of really really gorgeous fitness women and FBBers from that forum that I would have never heard of otherwise. So while the forum was something of a cesspool of not-so-anonymous file sharing and the like, there was a lot of quality, freely-available content that got shared as well.

    June 20, 2008 at 7:19 am #71920
    greyfox
    Participant

    AbyssPlanet, I agree with your post 100 percent. The VIP forums had literally 1/15th the activity that the regular fbb/fitness board did. I espcially think that the last paragraph of your post is prevelant.

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