I found a link to this article somewhere on our forum, as you read it, you will recognise that it's about FXP'ing, a very populair 'hobby' to a lot of our visitors.
FXP'ing is about finding public accessable FTP's (e.g from big companies) fill them with pirated software and then post them on a forum. As you can read this is very damaging to companies, as it costs a lot of bandwidth (And I can tell you, that's expensive )
kept finding files that got uploaded by anonymous users to our FTP server over the last few months starting sometime in September, 2000. At first I thought it was an employee doing it because there was good hierarchy to the folder listings. |
Inside were huge files that were Divx and VCD assets. I eventually noticed they were also accompanied by little files called "1mb" and generally behind a folder called ".MindChild".
That's when I started just deleting files realizing someone was using some of our server space.
It didn't bug me too much, except Tuesday, February 26, 2001, it got ridiculous. 12 servers from Holland and Belgium were absorbing our whole T-1 line and all 50 connection sockets on the FTP server uploading TONS of stuff. A bunch of other people, mostly from universities were also slipping in to download files.
Stuff was coming in faster than we could delete it and it was going on for quite a while. We turned off anonymous access but were still getting drilled with connection requests. We put in NetBarrier and got everybody firewalled.
We also dumped about 2.4 gigs of files. The ultimate result was a complete denial of access to our FTP server and significant reduction in performance of our internet connection.
As you read this, then consider what you are doing to these companies, and you will also find out why the 'real' warez people think this is lame. But hey, who am I to judge
Note: For those who still don't know, if you want to read the rest of the article quoted above, then click on source that you will find in the sentence just below this posting's topic.
Source: Macintouch
