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WinMX Help => Fake Files => Topic started by: impmon on July 22, 2005, 07:07:35 pm
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I was recently browsing for a few movies and some mp3's and noticed the -c: doesn't seems to filter out the obvious fakes anymore. Using the show full path, a lot of the files don't use drive letters at all! No drive letter in full path name = blatant fakes.
http://personalpages.tds.net/~wilykat/fakes.jpg shows the screenshot of one sample search of Star Wars 3 movie. Notice something in common?
adding -user in search box helped kill the current crop of fakes and should be fine until RIAA and MPAA wises up and change those. adding -files might also work but some MX users uses the word "files" in their directory while "user" is not usually used in legimate file path.
PS FWIW I paid well over $50 to watch the new movie 6 times and I will buy the video when it comes out. if MPAA thinks I shouldn't download the free copy, they can either tell me of a local movie theater that is open at 3am EST regularly (due to my odd job schedule) or they can shove the C&D letter where the sun doesn't shine.
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they are trying to make the paths look more like winmx 3.54 (which uses a relative path rather an absolute path) probably because they knew people were filtering with -c: and wanted to get past that filter without being obvious that they watch the various winmx forums etc
however you are correct in the -user filtering them, i thought that was mentioned but i guess not, i'll tell a few people to edit their posts on a few forums to include it :-)
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Hi Impmon,
Your right with your advice and great observations..
The -c: trick does work on most files.. mostly mp3.
The deal is that unfortunately there is more then one company doing the dirty work for the RIAA/MPAA. This particular one does not list a drive like KM said, its meant to mimic the beta version of WinMX.
So for movies and a few mp3 type files using -user or -files should work and -c: for MP3s...