Well, nobody really exposes mentioned software to the internet, right? For instance, It is accepted as good practice to have nginx used a request router, which kinda lowers the impact of this exploit, or am I am wrong?

My thoughts exactly. This lynda link seems not innocent.. oh well: guys there's pluralsight too, and tuts plus, and udemy... and youtube :)

Well, at least they have good taste!

By simply asking to the forum owner, well, he may simply not be motivated.. A lot of people seem to use fake/automated/careless/troll DMCA complaints, and they do tend to actually work, even if when they are not legit, and with no subsequent consequences to the complainer afterwards... Maybe this can help you.

"But when coding becomes universal, so will the expectation that websites become accessible to more than just browsers" That's just not true. Website want you to go to the ... you guessed it, the website! Do you really think everyone will offer access to content without making you see these pesky ads? Ain't gonna happen dude.

Is there an option for mass 'off topic' modding?

"In other words, the lists will be made by educated professionals" woof, now I'm relaxed. I'm still looking for a job, and I believe I'm educated, I wonder what are the other pre-requisites to be one of these experts...

Same here... since windows XP

As I said specifically said "I'm not claiming this is better". Just replying to OP wrt to existing alternatives.
Brute force? I would argue that by the time they broke it became irrelevant.

This: rezial.com I admit that I never tried LastPass, so I'm not claiming this is better/more convenient.. I use it, and I'm happy with it. but now I also want to try LastPass :)

Fron this I read that Springer instead of promoting measures to ensure real peer-review and avoid these scam conferences, actually builds a program that helps these scam conferences. Well done.

dude, but so far, to my knowledge, there's still no similar attacks with the new cool TLDs like .website, .place, etc. I think things will get more interesting in some time..

Well, I like Namecheap, cheap and reliable, and with access to the new TLDs. Yet, if you're going to even cheaper, but without possibility of registring a domain with the new TLDs, than Namesilo is the way to go.

".. about the effectiveness of a ban in the Information Age." What questions? You can't do it. Period. No need to torrent, Google got you covered, here it is.