I was talking to my mate in the office the other day, and he was asking me what the best way of downlaoding software, music, videos etc. was these days. “Well, you can use the website Isohunt and download the software BitComet.” I told him. As the web has evolved, so have the methods by which people download media and app files. I remember back in 1998 the place I used to get my mp3 downloads from was a site called ‘Bresso’ and you just literally downloaded the mp3 files which had HTML links to. After that came Napster of course, and then Soulseek and Shareaza and so on until today I use torrent files.
Anyway, a few days later my mate called me.
“What was the name of that software you said I needed?”
“BitComet”
“Right. That’s what I thought. I didn’t realise you had to pay for it..”
“What? You don’t!”
“Well, on the site it says you have to subscribe. It’s not much, a couple of quid a day”
“F$*&£$@*!!!!!”
So this got me thinking. A similar thing happened with soulseek. Some bunch of child-molesters nicked their name to register soulseek.com and put a site up where naive users were told to pay to download a free bit of software. Was this the same? Well, it only took me a few minutes to find out that indeed it was.
What these scumbags do is say that you pay for the helpdesk support and access to their ‘extensive range’ of files. They obviously don’t mention anywhere that the software is free and you can download it anywhere for nothing.
I hate these bastards and I hope that they all get cancer of the cock. They all seem to be at the top of a google search page. I suppose googles argument is that they are doing nothing illegal. Wankers. I have to say too that they all look very similar, these pages. Take a look yourselves :
http://www.soulseekhq.com/g/
http://www.download-all-area.com/bitcomet/
http://www.free-mp3-share.com/soulseek/
http://www-bittorrent.net/