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Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 278

Maybe you have set your sites on the smaller target when you talk about ISPs and the proxy as a work-around. If you raise your sites to target the registrars who honor contracts to register unlawful domain names then you will be able to cause some real damage. This comment applies not only to Intellectual Property theft, but to all the phamacy spam frauds and fake replica trash too. Imagine the gain in global Internet bandwidth if registrars terminated contracts for every domain used for unlawful purposes.

Comment 1000 piracy sites for starters (Score 1) 278

The Net-Chinese registrar in Taiwan has accepted a service contract to register over 1,000 software piracy sites. It is just this sort of widespread abuse for which legislation like this is needed.

For the last 5 days alone, see the pirate sites listed at http://rss.uribl.com/nic/NET_CHINESE_CO_LTD_.html

For over 1,000 examples in October/November check http://spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php/Net-Chinese

If the US can't ensure compliance at home, how can anyone expect to convince the Taiwanese piracy sponsors?

Comment Re:General problem of spam with Google/Gmail (Score 1) 149

Move up the spammers' food chain. Take a look at Complainterator which is described in the Spam Wiki at http://spamtrackers.eu/wiki

It's the registrars who have the power to knock hundreds - even thousands - of spam sites off their perches in one shot, and in response to one complaint. You can see its success rate there.

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Submission + - BlueSecurity - Round Two!

user24 writes: "We all remember the Blue Security DDOS attack, and now it looks like the same group of spammers who took them down are attacking several high-profile anti spam forums in a similar co-ordinated botnet DDOS.

zdnet has the scoop:

"The spammers behind last year's destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the 'Storm Worm' malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services.

SpamhausThe ongoing attacks, which use botnets of hijacked Windows computers, successfully shut down the Web servers that power the Spamhaus Project, URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklists) and SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL)."

Check out the castlecops forum, where members of these antispam groups are picking over the details of the attack."

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