We just have been informed that a board member (with zero posting) has posted direct links to Hernan's Metrodance sets hosted on our Site on Hernans board. This means we have somebody or several people on the board who steal the links and pass them to others who do not belong to our community. As we do not rape other people's Servers but actually PAY for the bandwith we will not tolerate this.

The guy we caught will be banned from the site and the same will happen with every other "member" we catch posting links to others or in the worst case on other Sites. Our members are registered on a lot of Sites so you can be sure that we find out about every posting, no matter if it was made in Nigeria or somewhere on the North Pole. I don't care what those people's intentions are, if it happens with purpouse or if they think it won't make a difference or just don't know what they do. Everybody we catch will be banned and if we find out that people continue to steal our bandwith, we will just stop hosting sets for free.

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:evil:

Bastards. There must be a way to stop this sort of thing.

Hanging is too good 'em.

I agree folks, this practise (we felt had nearly died out) has been bought back up again. Absolutely uncool. Not only do you ruin the possibility of being banned from this forum, you might even lose the downloads from being hosted on the site again.

We once again urge you to respect the effort (not to mention the amount of money) we put into the sites and that peeps will let us know when others abuse such facts...

-e-

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and please contact anyone on the mod/admin team if you see direct links posted on other places.

thanks the guy who noticed me of these links being stolen ;)

Now all the pictures are broken!

You guys trying to use the hotlink app thats from Cpanel ?

which pictures ?? yes I did enable it

All the images set to this board.. I cant see any images..

I.E. Logos, Post icons, etc. :p

OH MY GOD STOP BREAKING IT! haha

P.S. Really should give me your IM :p

odd, its working fine at my end

-e-

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You give an inch... :roll:

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Bastards. There is always some out there that has ruin it for everyone else. You think they would have learned from before. Thanks guys for all you hard work to this site. To bad there is dickheads like that have to ruin such a great community like this.

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[quote=Encryption]odd, its working fine at my end[/quote]

Same here, everything is fine as far as I can see.

As for the scamming fuckers: how can people still think they can do this and not get caught?? [mn] is so huge now, with so many peole on so many different boards, somebody is bound to notice. Oh well, they're caught and banned and hopefully no one else with think they are being "cool" by trying to rip our hard working admins off. :roll:

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That really sucks. If any bastard causes us to lose our downloads, I will personally hunt them down like an animal and beat the crap out of them and their computer. :D

be sure to post some picts :P

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yeah that sucks :roll: stupid fvcks :EvilFlic: :TNF: :Boom: :KillYou: :Die: :lickmyha: :RTFM: :Gay: :AssKicki: :wanna fi:

no thanks the direct link :oops: :Rasta Ba: :evil:

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Funny it was my Norton Internet Security fucking it up.

hmm thats weird . never had to disable it for this site before.

i dont think banning them is enough..they will still get our stuff from their friends who they passed our links to..can we ban the group?

yea Norton is a beyotch with MN, if you search around, there are special threads created for this problem and how to address it

-e-

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"No trial, no jury, straight to execution."

Can you post up their email so we can spam them with abuse? (reversion to schoolyard tantrums :lol: )

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I will personally kick the ass of whoever thinks they can get over on [ms] :wanna fi:

...oh, and I'll enjoy it too :twisted:

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leeching is a practice these days, its like playing the good guy on someone's elses money i agree, these guys should be banned and bloked from the site

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You say he's over on the HC board??? Time to bring in the cavalry!

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The beauty of the internet is also the problem of the internet: You get to meet all sorts of people from all over the world that you would never have met before. Some are really cool, and some total losers.

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[quote=Balanc3]You say he's over on the HC board??? Time to bring in the cavalry!

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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Damn, I didn't think it would start WWIII!!! I guess I was wrong.

Oh shit... its on..

Now, I know I'm a newbie here, but if anyone needs me to kick some ass, let me know... I'm ready bitches

just keep ya eyes and ears peeled (if you'll are on other boards) for morons posting links to the downloads, thats prolly how you can thank us best for hosting the donwnloads

much appreacited

-e-

oh...that was a given...

that does it all then

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i am new to this board but wanted to double check, so we cannot link/share music files here?

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[quote=SHoCK2xTc]i am new to this board but wanted to double check, so we cannot link/share music files here?[/quote] First of all, welcome. Be careful this place can get very addictive!

To answer your question, we provide exclusive mixes to our members and someone was taking the links to the actual sets (from our 'Downloads' page) that are provided free of charge and posting them on another board. The correct way to handle this would've been to post a link to [url]www.mercurynation.com[/url] on that board to tell people that a particular DJs mixes are available here.

There is another section of this board here: [url]http://www.mercurynation.com/forums/index.php?f=9[/url] where you can paste links for sites that contain mixes. For example, if there was a mix available on John Digweed's site for download, you could let everyone know in that forum by posting a link to [url]www.johndigweed.com[/url] and telling them where to go to get the mix. We don't allow direct posting of other people's mixes though, so make sure you just point to the site.

And as I'm sure you are already aware, we absolutely [b][u]DO NOT[/u][/b] tolerate sharing/linking of pirated/copywritten material.

Hope that helps. Now just sit back, tune in to the radio stream, engage in some discussion and enjoy!

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real idiots but some of them think like this why post and be a part of this comunity all day when i cand post till i have the necesary amount to get the links and after that they dont care they have the links and they dont need nothing else .... only a verry stupid person could do something like that in my opinion ... they dont pay anything to download the sets from here they dont do nothing just post whats so damn hard i dont understand ....

and why dont u try to make the downloads availabe just for the ips that have the privilege to do so ? like that u ca prevent others who dont care what MN is and what it does to download the sets , they can have the links as much as they want but if they dont have the privilege to download from them they just can`t , and u will not have that kind of problems :) think about it :!:

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Sometimes it's just hard to imagine that people do that!

Where's the whole thought of the community? There are loads of ways to get good music on your pc - why rape a bunch of people and the idea behind the community? Unbelievable! :x

TomTom: I'm behind you & admins to stop this nonsense!

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I don't want to be a badass here, but instead of kicking asses, there should be a solution for avoiding this. I'm not quite sure how this happened, since for downloads you need to post a few, as far as I understood. So I guess, the person who linked directly the file on mercuryserver knew exactly the file url, from someone else maybe?

Anyway, since we are sitting on a board, which is half of very good coders (the engine board), there must be a solution to hide real links to donwloadable files. Masking or anything, like an e-commerce solution. I guess it is hard to implement on phpboard, but my view is, it is better to place controls, and not (only) rely on ppl.

Anyways, just my two cents :)

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[quote=skahound]...engage in some discussion and enjoy![/quote]

Discussion...so is that what they call the wanking we do around here nowadays??

:wink:

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I agree with FeralCode. If, by chance, there is a way to hide links to downloadable files, I think it's a legitimate idea to pursue it.

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you dont need to hide the links just restrict the access to them by adding a script that recognizes the ips that have access to the downlods a simple ex is my ip is 81.196.55.210 now i cant access downloads because i didnt get to the amount of posts to access the download page ,if i have the links i could download them no ? so u put a script to recognize ips and when it will c my ip he will know that i dont have the access to download, its verry simple ,your in the database as an activ poster and such u can download if u aren`t bye bye .... if u do this what can they do with the links ?

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[quote=FeralCode]I don't want to be a badass here, but instead of kicking asses, there should be a solution for avoiding this. I'm not quite sure how this happened, since for downloads you need to post a few, as far as I understood. So I guess, the person who linked directly the file on mercuryserver knew exactly the file url, from someone else maybe?

Anyway, since we are sitting on a board, which is half of very good coders (the engine board), there must be a solution to hide real links to donwloadable files. Masking or anything, like an e-commerce solution. I guess it is hard to implement on phpboard, but my view is, it is better to place controls, and not (only) rely on ppl.

Anyways, just my two cents :)[/quote]

Good point FeralCode. Of course it would be better if we could trust people, but life ain't like a fairytale...

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sorry to hear that... hope it wont happen again... keep mercury for us!!!

undergound....thats the way it is.

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[quote=ecpolonyc]That really sucks. If any bastard causes us to lose our downloads, I will personally hunt them down like an animal and beat the crap out of them and their computer. :D[/quote]

I go with this idea myself! :wanna fi:

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[quote=PUFFY]you dont need to hide the links just restrict the access to them by adding a script that recognizes the ips that have access to the downlods[/quote]

Spoofity McSpoof Spoof Spooferson.

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hi