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File-hosting service Rapidgator has had millions of pages removed from Google’s search results following complaints from copyright holders. However, the site is not just on the receiving end of takedown notices as it has started to send its own too, targeting ‘premium link generators’ and other problematic sites.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Founded in 2010, Rapidgator has grown to become an established name in the file-hosting business over the past decade.
The site has millions of regular users but is not particularly well-liked by copyright holders. This resulted in a spot on both US and EU lists of notorious piracy markets.
Rapidgator dismisses these characterizations and bills itself as a content-neutral hosting platform. The company accepts and processes DMCA takedown notices but in addition, we recently discovered that it also sends takedown notices itself to deal with problematic sites.
Similar to many other hosting sites, third-party services actively abuse Rapidgator’s service. Specifically, some sites allow the public to generate ‘premium links,’ which effectively bypass the need to register for a paid account.
These ‘link generators’ use hacked or purchased premium accounts, which are then shared with the public at large. This is a relatively easy trick, but the affected sites see it as a threat to their business.
This is also the case for Rapidgator.net, which is incorporated as Northern Ireland company Y-Flex LLP. Over the past weeks, Rapidgator has started to use takedown notices to its advantage, asking Google to remove several problematic sites from its search results.
The first notices we spotted were for ‘traditional’ copyright infringements. For example, Rapidgator.info was reported for using the official Rapidgator logo and misleading users. Another site that was flagged in a similar notice was Cloudzzer.
These traditional takedown requests had mixed results. Google removed some URLs but left others online.
More recently. Rapidgator started using another takedown tool. Instead of standard DMCA takedown notices, it sent DMCA anti-circumvention complaints. These tend to be even more effective, as targeted sites can’t submit standard counternotices.
These ‘anti-circumvention’ requests still have to be reviewed by Google and are not blindly accepted. That said, Rapidgator managed to remove several sites from Google’s search results, including a page on login site Bugmenot.
“Rapidgator.net premium account circumvention content: Webpage provide username and passwords of hacked accounts circumvention mechanism: passwords or access codes,” Y-Flex writes in a recent request to Google.
Rapidgator confirmed that these requests are indeed coming from its company. The site sees these premium link generators as a major problem and hopes to minimize the harm by making them harder to find.
“They use all illegal methods to get premium accounts, which includes hacking premium accounts and using stolen credit cards in order to buy premium access. Once they have access to a premium account, they share the bandwidth on their server which is against our terms of use,” Rapidgator informs us.
“We try to delete such sites from Google search because their business model allows circumventing our website security,” the company adds.
With these efforts, Rapidgator is trying to get something positive out of Google’s takedown policies. Previously it had mostly felt the negative consequences. The site’s homepage, for example, was removed after an erroneous request.
Rapidgator as also had more than 36 million of its own pages removed from Google, following takedown requests from copyright holders. This earns the site a spot in the top three most-targeted domain names on Google search.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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Auction house estimates a “single digit” number of this sealed variant still exist.
Most boxed copies of Super Mario Bros. look a lot like this at a quick glance. But they won't sell for $114,000. [credit: Heritage Auctions ]
A sealed, early copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES sold for $114,000 Friday at specialist house Heritage Auctions, setting a new record for the sale price of an individual video game.
The online auction surpassed the old record set by a $100,000 sale of a "sticker-sealed" Super Mario Bros. early last year. At the time, the seller behind that $100,000 edition told Ars that it was “probably the wrong move, long-term, to sell.”
For context, the Guinness World Records certified the world's largest video game collection sold at auction for $750,000 in 2014. That collection contained over 11,000 games, including over 8,300 in their original box.
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Lenovo has been one of the more adventurous companies in the Android tablet space in recent years, with tablets designed to serve double duty as smart speakers/displays, tablets with built-in projectors, and dual-screen models with E Ink and color scr…
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Voyage pulled the curtain back on its system for remote driving.
The ideal self-driving car would drive itself all the time, in all situations. But achieving that goal in practice is difficult—so difficult, in fact, that most self-driving companies have provisions for human backup to help cars get out of tricky or confusing situations.
But companies are often secretive about exactly how these systems work. Perhaps they worry that providing details—or even admitting they exist—will cast their self-driving technology in an unflattering light.
So it was refreshing to see the self-driving startup Voyage unveil its remote driving console as if it was announcing a major new product—which, in a sense, it is. Voyage didn't just create software that allows a remote operator to give instructions to a self-driving car—it built a physical "Telessist Pod" where a remote driver sits to control the vehicle.
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Die Pädagogik hat ihre Grenzen: “Es lernen nur die, die es auch wollen”
Siemens stellt den hauseigenen Strom-Heimspeicher Junelight offiziell ein. Die Solarspeicherakkus scheinen nicht genügend Geld zu bringen. (Siemens, Technologie)
Siemens stellt den hauseigenen Strom-Heimspeicher Junelight offiziell ein. Die Solarspeicherakkus scheinen nicht genügend Geld zu bringen. (Siemens, Technologie) “There’s so much of the Solar System that we have not explored.”
Enlarge / An Electron rocket launches in August 2019 from New Zealand. (credit: Sam Toms/Rocket Lab)
At the beginning of this year, a group of NASA scientists agonized over which robotic missions they should choose to explore our Solar System. Researchers from around the United States had submitted more than 20 intriguing ideas, such as whizzing by asteroids, diving into lava tubes on the Moon, and hovering in the Venusian atmosphere.
Ultimately, NASA selected four of these Discovery-class missions for further study. In several months, the space agency will pick two of the four missions to fully fund, each with a cost cap of $450 million and a launch late within this decade. For the losing ideas, there may be more chances in future years—but until new opportunities arise, scientists can only plan, wait, and hope.
This is more or less how NASA has done planetary science for decades. Scientists come up with all manner of great ideas to answer questions about our Solar System; then, NASA announces an opportunity, a feeding frenzy ensues for those limited slots. Ultimately, one or two missions get picked and fly. The whole process often takes a couple of decades from the initial idea to getting data back to Earth.
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