Warez Web Rip-Off Closed Down

[GhostShip]

More good news for honest web users 

http://torrentfreak.com/massive-warez-scam-architects-run-for-cover-080930/

Two brothers who made millions from an empire of scam file-sharing sites have had their identities revealed. Matt and Jake Dylewski mis-sold subscriptions to FullReleases.com and dozens of similar sites, misleading customers and motivating them to take action. Most of the sites have been taken offline.

Usually, users pay a relatively small amount in the first instance, say $5-$10 per month. However, it’s not unusual for additional charges to start appearing on the victim’s card at a later date. Canceling the agreement with the scammers can be a nightmare.

In return for the money paid, the user usually gains access to a basic meta-search site, which simply searches and offers results from completely free sites such as Mininova or The Pirate Bay. Millions of unsuspecting people are signing up for these scam sites (often advertised by ‘legitimate’ BitTorrent sites), and have done for some years now.

This "pretend-warez" site is one of those that pollute google with useless results and whatever link is clicked revenue is demanded, I,m sure many folks will be happy such scam sites and their operators are exposed and closed down.

[Cobra]

YES!  I hate that website!

What is so awful is that it was so obvious (to me, anyway) to be a scam, and yet they still made millions. Every once in a while I go looking for older software or a specific version of software. The company may be defunct or they only offer the latest version but the older version had fewer bugs.

Even if I came up with as few as 5 results, one of those sites appeared, but of course you had to pay. There was no way that they were that good and had anything that you possible searched for.

Good riddance.