A user named VitaminX uploaded bitcoin miner attached to an installed for BG3. The admins removed the upload after community protests went viral, but VitaminX is for some reason not banned.
Is the site compromised? Was VitaminX splitting the profits with a rogue admin?
Does that user have other popular uploads that might disappear if they were banned?
It’s entirely possible that whatever cracker they got their upload from snuck the miner in without the uploader’s knowledge. Always a lot of iffs when nobody will ever really know the truth.
Not the first time weird drama has happened in the torrent scenes and won’t be the last. Just more reinforcement to scan all your downloads and consider sandboxing them until you’ve proven them to be clean
He actually was on the 1337x comment section defending himself and at a point he said he downloaded it from [Russian website] and only repacked it. He said we could go download it from there if we didn’t trust him, but I also got a virus warning from that one…
“There was a sign down at Ramsett Park that said ‘Don’t drink the sprinkler water’, so I made sun tea with it, and now I have an infection”
It’s cool you investigated and found out they did just (accidentally?) repack a dirty copy, but it definitely reminded me of that lady from Parks and Rec.
There’s malware all over that site, you download from known good uploaders or roll the dice.
There is no such thing as a safe torrent site.
Why was the post on this removed from the Reddit Piracy sub? I find that slightly alarming.
Was it ever safe?
Here’s the text in the image
If you people had half a clue what its like to run and mod a popular torrent site half the comments here would be just thanks. You think 1337x has a huge team of people moderating FREE content for you all? Let me clue you all in, this is most certainly NOT the case.
Very few people modding site right now. I can tell you this, NO one and I mean NO one is working with anyone to make money off of people on site involving moderators or admins. The people that are actively modding the site have full time jobs with families and do not look at uploads coming threw 24/7. The torrent in question was removed when it was checked and verified. Please excuse the delay as we were not fast enough for some of you and your free content. What mods are there are there just because of the community no other reason. Getting paid? Please, stop it now.
You should be wary of any software or games you download from anywhere. If you dont trust 1337x then dont go there, but to start smashing on what few moderators who are just there to support you people in your quest for good pirated material is just wrong and no where near correct.
For the people who think we are in cahoots with anyone involved with site and donations for your information none of the mods like the change that has recently happened involving donations. What sense does it make to take donations to remove ADS when and if you loose the account you are screwed? The password recovery does not work on 1337x as of now and has not for a very long time. As mods/Admins we have zero access to the backed of the site. No control Whatsoever. Never have never will. Site owner barely has any communication with the Mods if you all want to know the truth.
Posts like the OP has here makes me want to quit and let fate take its course to be perfectly honest with all the ungrateful comments for FREE CONTENT!
i blinded myself reading the image… and there was perfectly readable text on comment below… :facepalm:
Direct link mirror (catbox.moe) because I don’t like the “accept cookies” popups:
Are they saying they don’t want to ban the person because they’re a paying customer, or that they can’t because they don’t have access to the backend?
they are saying that they have banned the torrent but it took time because they don’t have man power and also have jobs so can’t test all the torrents. but once they knew torrent was bad they did remove it.
and that they are not associated with him.
this is what i m saying not them: i haven’t seen any proofs that admins removed any negative mentions. As I can see all the negative mentions are there and we also got few new ones.
Yeah, the mod is trying to strawman the issue. The people are concerned not that the upload wasn’t caught instantly, but the fact that the uploader has not been punished.
