• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Response from the admins

    From where I’m sitting it looks like classic overconfidence. I would say keep your eyes open in the future but don’t pick up the pitchforks just yet.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks. This community needed your logical input. I’ve been following this over the past few days and it seems like a blatent Reddit-type pitchfork situation. Based on the mods response and the absolute lack of proof surrounding the mods profiting from the crypto miner (honestly who the actual fuck even came up with this?), I think we need to all take a beat.

      Also I don’t follow cracked games but this Emperess person seems like a fucking psychopath and the fact that literally anyone here believes a word she says is absolutely astonishing.

      I am asking this community to PLEASE STOP REPOSTING THIS. Don’t let this community follow the ways of Reddit, please. We are better than that.

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        I agree, this entire thing looks very blown out of proportion to me. It’s not the first time and not the last time there will be malware in a brand new game torrent on 1337x.

        This exact situation has happened before with a new game torrent that had malware, torrent eventually got taken down, and nobody raised a huge fuss other than not to download that torrent.

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          I feel like this community and the reddit one are made up of 14 year olds who figured out how to torrent 2 weeks ago and are freaking out over the prospect that downloading exe files isn’t safe…who would have thought!

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    I have seen multiple posts about the situation by now with various claims but no one seems to have actually looked into it so I have questions! Is it true that moderators defended the upload and silenced criticism, is it true that the crypto address in question can be linked to the sites admins and is it true that the same malware is all over the internet in countless releases? Not all of those are from this particular pist but if someone here knows the answers I would be happy to read them!

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      There is a discord group in the official 1337x subreddit, the user was just a vip user, not a staff/moderator and he deleted comments after posting a malware in order to keep the release alive. Maybe he was trusted before posting it, and 1337x staff are a few people (lately even less) so he wasn’t blocked quickly. Nothing more. I hope 1337x will make an announcement. The user who posted malware was under a blue nikname:

      • Black - admin
      • Green - moderator
      • Blue - vip
      • Yellow - uploader
      • Red - trial uploader
      • Grey - user

      There wasn’t any member of the staff that was helping the vip user to delete comments. He was just deleting comments under its own post by himself.

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        There is no official 1337x subreddit or discord group. Go to the 1337x official chat room (link on the front page of 1337x.to) and ask about a discord group or sub reddit and they will tell you its fake.

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    1 year ago

    You know it’s bad when the almost constantly unhinged ‘Empress’ is the one speaking sense.

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      1 year ago

      You looked at that screenshot and said, “Ah yes, here’s someone speaking sense” ?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, except EMPRESS was just complaining that her own torrents got deleted, not that others were unsafe

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    1 year ago

    I haven’t had the courage to run executable code from P2P networks since the early 2000s. Even then it was probably a bad idea.

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    I’ll translate: “I find actions of the 1337x admins disappointing. Deleting my torrents causes confusion for the user base, and these actions reflect poorly on your character, suggesting pusillanimity and insufficient discretion when selecting a sexual partner.”