TRACKER NAME: GiroTorrent.org TRACKER GENRE: General SIGNUP LINK: http://girotorrent.org/index.php?page=account CLOSING TIME: N/A ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: GiroTorrent.org is an italian private torrent tracker for general releases

A VPN is generally touted as an ideal tool to remain anonymous online, but this is more easily said than done. This week ProstoVPN revealed a widespread issue that can in many cases expose the true IP-addresses of users, unless proper action is taken. A few weeks ago we covered a security flaw which allowed attackers to uncover the real IP-addresses of VPN users, if their providers allow forwarding on their network. The news was picked up widely as it affected millions of users. However, it is just one of the many possible exploits VPN users are facing. This week another issue was highlighted by ProstoVPN. This “vulnerability” affects both users with a direct connection and those with routers that have UPnP port forwarding enabled. The issue boils down to a rather basic network routing feature where UDP listening software (e.g. torrent clients) respond to packets that are sent to the user’s ISP IP-address, through the VPN interface. This means that a potential attacker can link a VPN IP-address to a user’s ISP IP-address. The problem The issue affects users on all operating systems and is not always easy to fix on the user end. VPN providers with custom software can address it, but with the standard OpenVPN software users have to take action themselves. While the scope of the issue is large, as many users and providers have yet to address the issue, it requires quite a bit of effort to carry out an attack. It basically requires the attacker to send UDP packets to the entire Internet. In addition, there’s the possibility of false positives which means that it’s harder to pinpoint the exact ISP IP-address. With this in mind, it seems unlikely that monitoring companies will attempt to expose every BitTorrent user with a VPN. ProstoVPN informs TorrentFreak that they alerted 11 providers, and two confirmed that they have fixed the issue with a software update. “Information about this ‘feature’ was sent to 11 VPN providers and only five of them replied: Private Internet Access and Perfect Privacy have released updated software which blocks incoming connections.” Not all providers were equally responsive and one suggested that the issue should be addressed by the users. There is some truth to that, but the same provider does protect its users against similar problems on the user-side, such as DNS, IPv6 and WebRTC leaks. While there’s no need for outright panic, it is a good development that these type of problems are being highlighted. It prompts VPN providers to take action and users to remain vigilant. That said, it also shows that 100% anonymity is pretty much impossible. More details on the routing “feature” and its consequences are available in ProstoVPN’s article and in the statement published by Perfect Privacy.

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One of the most active torrent communities is witnessing an exodus of moderators and admins. Nearly all active staff of 1337x have abandoned the site claiming that the owner failed to fix several security holes. The (former) staffers have now launched their own site and have begun redirecting 1337x traffic to their new home. Without proper moderation any torrent site will turn into a swamp of fake files and malicious content. This became painfully apparent earlier this year when The Pirate Bay was left unmoderated, and a similar situation is now taking place at 1337x.to. The site, which is one of the most visited torrent sites on the Internet, has built up a strong community in recent years. As with most other sites the day-to-day operations are managed by admins and moderators, who volunteer their free time to dealing with spam and other inappropriate content. After a redesign, however, the staffers have grown impatient with the site’s owner who failed to respond to various complaints. One of the most pressing issues is a security hole which allows others to hijack user accounts. “The new design is full of bugs, leaving users unprotected and vulnerable to attacks. The owner has refused to fix those problems creating dissension in the ranks,” former 1337x moderator ‘The Ghost’ informs TF. The vulnerabilities allow outsiders to take over the accounts of regular users and post all sorts of spam. “What would happen, is somebody would reply to a comment that had a script injected. Once they replied, their account got hijacked and started uploading infected torrents,” The Ghost says. The above is just one example, according to the moderator. These and other bugs caused a lot of problems for the moderation crew as well as the users. However, they reportedly remain in place today. Since the owner has been very unresponsive, all active moderators and admins have decided to step down. They were already paying for the server rent and the 1337x domain names, which will likely be forwarded to the new home. Visitors who access the old forum URL (1337x.net) are now redirected to the new home at leetxtorrents.org, where a new forum was created with a copy of the database. Another “former” 1337x staffer Mustangx, who owns the original .com and .org domains, confirms the staff exodus and says that they are working on a new torrent site as well. The staffers don’t have access to the old code, so they have to start anew. “We have a team working on an entirely new site at the moment. We hope to have it ready for the new year,” Mustangx says. In recent days the owner of the original 1337x reappeared again. However, many staffers believe that it’s too late to make things right, although it hurts to leave their old home behind. “Nobody likes the idea of just leaving the old site sitting there but it doesn’t have an off button. Kind of like leaving a claymore mine lying around the internet,” The Ghost concludes. At the time of writing the old 1337.to site remains operational, but the domain may be redirected in the future as well.

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FreeLeech I would like to on behalf of all staff to thank each and everyone of you that donated so far, without your help we would not be able to survive. As always keeping up with our tradition, since we reached the 100% on the donation meter we will be setting Free Leech on till end of month, so what you waiting for - go go go, download credit don't count only upload counts so it gives you a good chance to build up that buffer, but remember you still need to seed back to per rules. Merry/Happy/Christmas/Holidays to all

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Cease and Desist Order Today we received a Cease and Desist Order from FACT ordering us to stop. We have disabled everyones ability to upload or download already as well as blocked access to everyones profiles so that the members and staff are protected. We want to thank each and everyone of our fantastic members for the love and support that they have shown us. Hopefully we will see each other in our travels across the internet. Thank you all again for the great support you have shown us. All donations received from November 4th on will be returned. The staff of 2baay.com

Dear members! We are now under large DDoS attack. We expect service to return to normal very shortly. Stay tuned.

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Three men from the UK have been raided by City of London Police after uploading thousands of karaoke tracks online. Although described by police as a criminal "gang", the men in their 50s and 60s claim they only created their own karaoke tracks when alternatives weren't commercially available. While karaoke might not be the pinnacle of original musical excellence, yesterday the UK’s leading police anti-piracy unit took action which suggests it takes karaoke every bit as seriously as other intellectual property. And, somewhat interestingly, there could be more to this sing-a-long case than first meets the eye. First, let’s see what the police had to say. Acting on a complaint initially filed by members of the BPI, City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) initiated an investigation during the summer against individuals allegedly uploading karaoke tracks to the Internet without permission. That resulted in raids yesterday on three men aged 60, 53, and 50 at their homes in Devon and Bury in the UK. “The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has dismantled a gang suspected of uploading and distributing tens of thousands of karaoke tracks online, including artists such as Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue and Kanye West,” PIPCU said in a statement. While police use the term ‘gang’ here it’s not one frequently associated with karaoke fans and the further one digs into the activities of the men, the less it seems to fit. Together the trio formed Karaoke RG (KRG), a release group specializing in karaoke tracks. Police say their activities on KickassTorrents piqued the interest of copyright holders – their still-active account has around 2150 uploads during the past two years. However, Kickass wasn’t KRG’s home base. In recent times the group has operated from two domains, the first being Karaokerg.info. This Weebly-created site is probably the first indication that KRG aren’t necessarily in the kind of ‘gang’ the police usually have the displeasure of dealing with. The second and catchily-titled freehomemadekaraoke.wordpress.com probably removes all doubt. KaraokeRG publishes a master list of the tracks they offer (stored on Dropbox and Box) and there are indeed songs from major artists present. However, their description of what they are offering is certainly food for thought. “The following is a list of all KaraokeRG homemade CD+G karaoke songs. They were created primarily because they are not available from any professional karaoke manufacturers. However, in some cases, some songs were made available by professional karaoke companies AFTER they were homemade,” KRG write. That KRG were into the ‘DIY’ side of karaoke is underlined elsewhere too. “Although our homemade karaoke tracks are free to download, they are time consuming and costly to produce. I.E. Paying for backing tracks (some backing tracks can cost up to £12).” So, some important points. KRG claim they are servicing a gap in the market by hand-creating their own karaoke titles that aren’t commercially available. In this respect there are parallels with the fan-subbing communities surrounding anime, for example. However, it’s likely that the backing tracks they’re using are subject to copyright restrictions so even giving those away are likely to cause issues, even with ‘homemade’ subtitling. The Karaoke Anti-Piracy Agency UK (KAPA UK) which counts the top five karaoke producers in the country among its members (Sunfly, Zoom, Mr Entertainer, SBI, Abraxa), is tasked with cracking down on the unlicensed use of backing tracks in karaoke venues around the country. KAPA UK works closely with the BPI. Also causing KRG problems is their claim that their activities are protected under copyright law. “These tracks are NOT FOR SALE. They are provided as a service to singers everywhere under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (The ‘Fair Use’ section). The tracks are made available for private use only and not intended for commercial use. There will be no ‘vocal suppression’ tracks ever included in this list,” they write. Sadly for KRG, the section cited above is a component of United States copyright law and is not available as a defense (even in the unlikely event it could be applied in this instance) for residents of the UK. In fact, in this case the BPI characterizes the infringement as “commercial scale”, despite money not being a key motivator. “The Release Groups which set themselves up to gain Kudos from the early release of music repertoire need to understand that this behavior is harmful to the industry that they claim to support. Actions like this send a strong message that this should not and will not be tolerated,” says John Hodge, BPI Head of Internet Investigations. For their part, PIPCU see groups like KaraokeRG as just another part of the piracy machine costing the music industry “millions of pounds” while threatening thousands of jobs. “PIPCU will continue to target the individuals and the organized crime gangs facilitating these crimes, working with key partners like the BPI to ensure that those most responsible are brought to justice,” says PIPCU’s Detective Constable Ceri Hunt. This morning PIPCU confirmed that the “karaoke gang” had been released on bail but whether any more will be heard about them will remain to be seen. Although PIPCU have made many file-sharing related arrests over the past couple of years, no cases have yet ended up in court.

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Hello. Since the Xmas is coming we have decided to open the sign ups. Another thing that we want to announce is that we have now new internal group called "CRiSPY". The group will provide us high quality encodes and remuxes. From now on all their releases will be freeleech. Also we have new internal member "fantome13" which will provide us full untouched blurays under the tag HDSpace, all of this blurays are with freeleech now. The staff wishes you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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The RIAA has scored another win in a prominent piracy lawsuit. The music group has prevailed in its case against the 'reincarnation' of the defunct Grooveshark music service, with a New York federal court granting more than $13 million in piracy damages plus another $4 million for willful counterfeiting. Last May, Grooveshark shut down after settling with the RIAA. However, within days a “clone” was launched aiming to take its place. The RIAA feared the worst and took the matter to court, where it swiftly obtained an injunction, preventing various Internet service providers from offering their services to the site. Through the lawsuit the record labels hoped to stop the site from gaining a large user base, something that previously happened to clones of other shuttered sites such as isoHunt. This strategy paid off. Initially the Grooveshark ‘clone’ remained online for a few weeks, hopping from domain name to domain name, but it eventually vanished from the Internet. The operator of the site went silent as well. Initially he widely promoted the clone in various media, but in court there was no response at all. This prompted the RIAA to file for a default judgment which has now been granted by U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan. “Defendants have engaged in willful copyright infringement of Plaintiffs’ copyrights through the Counterfeit Service, which allows users to download and stream infringing copies of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings directly from servers operated or controlled by Defendants, in violation of Plaintiffs’ copyrights,” the judgement reads. Grooveshark clone Aside from a permanent injunction preventing the owner of the site from keeping it online, RIAA has also win millions in damages. In the original complaint the record labels listed 89 tracks as evidence. The court awarded the maximum statutory damages ($150,000) for each infringement (pdf) which brings the total to a massive $13,350,000. In addition, the operator of the site is ordered to pay $4 million for willful counterfeiting of two Grooveshark marks and another $400,000 for cybersquatting, by registering four Grooveshark domain names in bad faith. The court further ordered the transfer of the Grooveshark domain names to the RIAA, so they can’t be used for any infringing actions in the future. Finally, District Court Judge Alison Nathan stressed that CloudFlare still has an obligation to disconnect any new Grooveshark clones if they are notified by the record labels. The mention of CloudFlare is noteworthy, as it’s the first time that the company has been specifically mentioned in a permanent injunction against a pirate site. Initially the RIAA wanted Cloudflare to detect any new Grooveshark clones, but the CDN company successfully fought that request. The RIAA has yet to comment on the outcome of the case. On paper the $17 million judgment is a massive success, but since the site’s operator has yet to be identified it is doubtful that they will ever see a penny. That said, the main goal was probably to stop the site from operating and deter others from starting their own clones. This mission is accomplished, for now.

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Dear DB users We have this evening been under DDOS attack which resulted in the Danishbits.org not be accessed. Similarly, our tracker also been affected by this. We do not know who is behind, but surely someone who does not want us well (envy is an ugly thing) We are now beginning to be back online even if their attacks are still continuing. We are sorry of course for the inconvenience, but unfortunately nothing we can do. Do not you know what DDOS is, please read here: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS // Staff