Controversy as Rookie Admin Aspires to BitTorrent Domination
Written by enigmax on July 30, 2008Vortex Network, the touted replacement for the BrokenStones tracker, is today surrounded by controversy. The site owner announced she will link the site to a non-profit organization as part of a wider plan to unite all BitTorrent sites in a new air of legitimacy. Staff and members are leaving the site en masse.
A few weeks ago after difficulties with Malaysian hosting, the much-loved BrokenStones BitTorrent tracker went down. When news of a replacement site started to filter through, staff, members and others were prepared to offer time and resources to make the site a success. This led to the birth of Vortex Network - a brand new site put together in record time and one of the first to be built on the shiny new ‘Gazelle‘ codebase, developed by What.cd.
Around two weeks ago, a message appeared on the site, written by Rachel Faith Anderson, “Owner, SysOp and Chief Admin of the Vortex Network”. In it were thanks to the ‘heroes’ who put the site together along with statements about Vortex Network becoming something unique and something different, a standard claim for a new BitTorrent site trying to get off the ground. “Welcome to the eye of the storm my friend” ends the notice from Rachel, which has turned out to be quite the prophetic greeting.
The Start of the Storm
A few days ago the first rumblings of dissatisfaction started to appear from within the userbase of Vortex Network. Although donations are an absolute requirement for most BitTorrent communities to stay afloat, there are many differing opinions on how this issue should be approached. It’s safe to say that some of the community were not happy with the site’s ‘donation’ page. While it’s not compulsory for users to pay to use Vortex Network, there is a page where users can pay cash to fix their share ratio, enabling them to opt-out of seeding and get ‘customer’ or ‘patron’ status.
Some other members who won’t (or can’t) seed have cautiously welcomed the scheme. However, it seems that most are not in favor of it, labeling Rachel Faith - a self-confessed BitTorrent newcomer - as greedy. For her part, Rachel denies that the site is accepting payments in this fashion, indicating that the code was already present in ‘Gazelle’.
The P2L debate will rage on here and elsewhere, but this is really just a distraction. Following this discussion came an announcement from Rachel Faith Anderson herself. It’s quite long but in order to present the entire picture, here it is in full. To fully appreciate the nuances, a detailed read is required:
A Discussion not a Debate
That is what I shall be doing. In a debate, sides present their case and then some other party gets to decide. In a discussion, both sides can present their case and then that is that. They are each understood. But there is not the presumption that persuasion will occur.
I know this “debate” has been around for longer than p2p. I know the roots run deep and no one post can persuade those whose minds are already made up. Thus, this is a discussion. Feel free to discuss for as long as you wish. Feel free to ‘debate’ if you wish. Know that I am not interested in debate.
With that being said, let me make the brief introduction and outline the points I hope to present. There are many issues, and not all of them are even related, so keeping this as a discussion not a debate, allows the latitude to include all the points being raised even if some are not germane.
The list of points:
P2L is bad, impure, and somehow against the spirit of something greater. It makes others (those who pay not seed) who are for this reason not as good as others (those who see seeding as the ultimate sign) equal.
Yeah, it does exactly that. It says, just because you seed and do not donate, you are not better than someone who donates and does not seed as much as you. If you are offended by the equality of the two different ways in which status can be obtained, that is your personal feeling. But a feeling is not a fact. Choose to act upon a feeling and not a fact, and you act irrationally. That is also a fact.
The fact is, we fully declare that there is no superiority between those who seed and those who donate. None. We are neutral, unbiased and blind to any such thought, rejecting totally and without repentance the notion that seeders are “better” than “donors”.
That this is a point of contention for those who would like to think they are better than someone else , because their way is pure , is a very old elitist mentality which we fully intend to eradicate. In short such thinking is beyond bullshit, and the mark of juvenile thinking and weak egos who cannot bear the thought that they are not superior to someone else.
This is why we do not have the titles as plain as other sites.
Take the word user, or power user. What is a user? Someone who uses something or someone. This too has been rejected. You will never see the word user in any of our rules or guides. You, the people are not users. You are not using us, using each other, or using the community. You are members, each equal under the rules and given the same opportunity to succeed or fail in your own right.
Now the other end. The VIPs. We do not have this term either. Rejected is the idea that someone is more important or very important beyond anyone else. All members are part of the same body. Any opinion from any member is received with the same hope, optimism and credibility as is any other. Each will be weighed on the merits of the idea, not on some favored status. You are all Very Important People. Words have meaning, and we have chosen the theme and the words for the titles with that care in mind.
What are the other problems? The red herring. Server costs. Let us be very clear. Vortex Network is not a tracker. It has a tracker. True enough. And we come to existence from the ashes of a tracker. Also true. But this is not who we are, where we are going and what is to be the future.
We are more than a tracker. We are more than 22,000 members. Not yet, not today, not this hour. But sooner than later. Sooner than many but a very small few who really understand what is going on, would dare to believe. So let us be clearer for all.
We are a legal and legitimate Tax Exempt Corporation. Any other site taking money of any kind for any reasons and not filing with the authorities needs to face the facts that p2p may not have ever put anyone in prison, but tax evasion has done so to the best of mice and men.
There are two schools of thought. One is old and is the conventional thinking. One is new and is the wisdom we present.
The first school of thought says this: Our technology is forbidden by most authorities, we must be small, quiet, hidden and meek. If we get caught we must lie and erase our activities. We, by these actions admit our guilt and we believe ourselves to be criminals. Nothing, will or can change and we must act in this belief.
We reject every element of that thought. We embrace a better future. We believe the statutes change. We believe public perception changes. We are students of the law, of history and we are agents of change.
Like those before us who stood for the right of men to be free of slavery, like those before us whose suffrage was to bring the right of women to vote, and like those before us who have stood even for their most basic of human rights under much worse oppression and tyranny, we stand to bring the necessary changes to the use of p2p technology and to the common sense rights for intellectual property as well.
We do not hide. We are not criminals. Our behavior will not be that of cowards, criminals or those who are ashamed to speak out truth in this, a darkened night.
Your donation is not for access to a tracker. That access is free. And as the seeder club has pointed out, a donation is not needed at all to seed or even to build a ratio, provided you are willing to wait long enough.
Your donation will fund this change. It will provide us the opportunity to build a community far beyond 22,000 members, beyond 220,000 members. It will change the whole misunderstanding about what p2p technology is, does and who and why we are doing what we do.
Our effort will be public, it will be open, it will be legal, and you will see exactly where your contributions are going. And we use the word contribution, because it is not just a donation of money, but of time and effort, which will be rewarded as well.
This is just a single small step into a new world vision. This is but the tiniest spark of hope in a hopeless future. We are asking you to be part of that spark. To be keen to lighting the brush fire which then can never be extinguished!
And to our dear friends who cannot. To those whom we still love and respect, we wish you the best in your efforts. We bear no ill will to those who, in their own belief cannot see, cannot hear and will not act. We ask only, that you let us do so. We ask this in friendship and sincerity.
We know these are real differences and they are real points of objection. We understand the thinking of fear. Do not think we are deaf to it or ignorant of it. We know you are uncomfortable with our choice, and you feel safer in your isolation. That is the freedom we all share. The choice we all make. You can go in peace or stay and be peaceful.
This is not a debate. This is a direction and a path. You are welcome to walk it with us, or stop and wait and watch, or run and hide as far as you may need to run. We will not hold it against you in any path you choose.
And should providence shine a blessing upon us, we will never ask “Where were you?” We will embrace it together, welcoming you to this future as brothers/sisters, family.
For those who understand, who see what could be and seek with us to pursue it, to embrace the future: You have reached the calm… the eye of the storm.
Rachel Faith Anderson
We are a Legal and Legitimate Tax Exempt Corporation
In this headline and statement from Rachel lies the real controversy. It appears that in order to supposedly protect Vortex Network from legal action, it (or a parent organization) has been incorporated in the US as a non-profit Subchapter “S” corporation, which was necessary to “open a bank account, purchase equipment and report revenue to the taxing authorities”. We can find no evidence to suggest that Rachel is worried about copyright laws, which is an interesting approach.
The mere thought of being registered or linked to some sort of tax-exempt charity/organization has sent shockwaves through the Vortex Network community. Add to this that she is suggesting that tracker admins should no longer hide in the shadows, but join her to face the world head on, has seen many of the staff deleting their accounts and leaving the site in disbelief.
Rachel Faith’s Plan for World BitTorrent Domination
Although previously we’ve spoken about non-profit organizations, Rachel actually wants prominent people and existing sites from the BitTorrent community to unite to join her in a new, “for-profit entity” which has already been registered in the US. Labeling herself as a “visionary” she proposes - either by creation, merger or acquisition - the establishment of a network of private trackers which will operate together, combining resources, members and staff.
Her theory is that the unified resources of these sites will prove a more difficult target for the authorities to take down. By making the sites “99% community and 1% tracker”, Rachel feels legal issues surrounding the tracker can be mitigated. She also hopes that by combining the sites - hopefully hundreds - the whole operation will become more secure and “profitable”. Those enjoying a small club-like feel to their favorite tracker better get used to becoming a small cog in a huge wheel - if Rachel gets her way, that is.
Additionally, she views large and overly vocal public trackers as a menace and proposes that steps should be taken to put “embarrassing” sites (such as The Pirate Bay) “out of business”.
Rachel and her ever decreasing team believe that the way regular trackers operate is doomed to failure and so they intend to embark on a mission to change the public’s perception of BitTorrent in order to encourage legal change to allow their plan to grow. They aim to do this in 12 months, while at the same time amassing a minimum of 250,000 members as a base to work from.
Whatever this new plan for BitTorrent is, it’s not calming nerves and there is growing opposition to this plan, before it even gets off the ground. Rachel may want to take on the world in a blaze of glory, but most seem to want a quiet life.
We are students of the law, of history and we are agents of change.
According to sources close to the situation, Rachel Faith (possibly Rachel Faith Anderson, possibly something else) has a background in banking and is a lawyer (or at least a law student) using her real name. Using real names consistently on the Internet has its problems. As does hosting your avatar on your AOL page, which in turn reveals your AOL account name. Unless, of course, this is all some elaborate case of misdirection. But there again, Rachel said she isn’t hiding but it seems crazy to believe someone would be as open as this.
In any event, it’s clear that the majority of staff and members who have expressed a preference are not happy to be treated as “guinea pigs” in Rachel’s worldwide BitTorrent laboratory, especially when they now view the “BrokenStones replacement” line as a simple “bait and switch” tactic to get a solid base for her plans for domination.
Time will tell what will come of these plans, but in the meantime the opinions of others in the community are plain to see, especially if one visits any of the #crazybitch channels that have appeared on IRC, or the many outraged posters on the Vortex forums.
Or maybe Rachel Faith Anderson is sane and everyone else is crazy? Stranger things have happened…
…or if you read ‘Scene’ notices…..
RachelFaith.Registers.VortexNetwork.org.As.Business.To.Make.Money.Off.Scene
.Releases.DDOS.Immediately
Update: TorrentFreak managed to catch up with Rachel Faith Anderson but with other ‘real-life’ commitments (hey, we all have them), she didn’t really have much time for much other than a very brief chat. We’ve offered her a full right of reply and even delayed this article for her to do so, but we have heard nothing further.
However, she has finally responded to the ex-BrokenStones community and staff. Here is a small part of it which seems to have hit a raw nerve:
But there was existing, trained, competent staff from BS looking for a new home and so we tried to make it fit and tried to make it work. But from the very beginning, I could tell that it would not. The end was not unexpected, though it was untimely and unplanned. And this is the sadness I share with many. It is a loss and it came at a terrible time. Such is the nature of life.
So long ex-BrokenStones staff who worked hard to put the new site together, seems the Vortex Network doesn’t want you anymore…..
You can read Rachel’s full announcement here.
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198 Responses
that DDOS bit killed me with laughter
I wanna have a look at that film today, but I don’t think im gonna pay! Because Im bad! And I steal! I don’t care! I Don’t feel! Il take anything you got and il put it in my pocket! Yeaaahhh. I steal films. I steal books. I steal kids! Well I don’t steal kids but I bite..
That’s the mind of a pirate.. did you hear the hate and greed? And our beloved entertainment biz is where the dirty pirates feed. And I don’t mean terrorist, and there golden compass knockoffs. I mean you and your DOWNLOADS! Ohh I aught to knock your block off! How do you think this stuff gets made if the artists create it and don’t get paid, it’s the only reason they do what they do! Its not the flippin work, most of that’s poo! They depend on the money that you idiots give so they can make more crap and so they can live the GOOD life! Yes the life of the stars! But your taking there pools and your taking there cars! YOU BASTARDS!
Hahaha! You better believe it pal! Because were evil! Were scum! Stick the law up ur bum! Were gonna have a look at ‘I am Legend’ (Its crap). And were gonna have a party and were gonna play some music! And nobody at the party’s gonna pay.
Yes the world is changing. I don’t like it.. but that’s the way it is. So we cooked up some statistics that will show you how you’re ruining all the finely tuned mechanics of the entertainment biz. Every file that you download to your computer represents.. a physical purchase you would have made.. Possibly.. and even if your buying other stuff, that don’t make up for all the phantom profit that you slay.
I don’t care! Because im Mental! Im Evil! And I deserve to be locked up! Im a ponce and I smell.. and I want to go to hell! Cuz satans got free wifi everywhere! Yeaahhh. And in the end of days.. il download ‘End of Days’ though because it is an old one and it could take quite a while I might have to go and buy it anyway… which would be ironic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZpxVI7Pa8
I don’t get it, you can pay for 1.0 ratio and special status on demonoid…
Yeah she’s retarded, “You are all very important people” lol This sounds like Dr. Phil crap most of the way through, saying a lot of words but with no real substance.
You deal cocaine and heroin and profit from the suffering of others? Oh you pay taxes? Nevermind then, carry on.
Just to clear things up: Gazelle does -not- have Pay to Leech implemented by default. We don’t support that.
R A C H E L . F A I T H . A N D E R S O N
Law Student “The Next Ann Coulter”
24″ iMac: 2.33ghz ~ 3GB ~ 750HD
XP Pro, PC-BSD & OpenSuSE
Emulating 9.2.2, 8.6, 8.1, 7.5.5, iie
“The Next Ann Coulter” WTF? Since when was an adherent to Ann the Man gonna save P2P? This chick’s an ego and that’s about it. And she has a mouth with delusions of TPB-ness and brain with all the appeal of YouTorrent.
What a wangtastic voyage this’ll be.
This site is just a wheel for propaganda and bullshit these days. What kind of fucking soap opera do you guys have running here. Now I know what people have been talking about…
It’s filesharing, lady– quit acting like you’re the f’ing messiah!
I love how the responses are moderated now(Have they always been? I don’t think so?). If you delete what I said you are communists.
Edit Ernesto: we keep the fucks in the moderation queue, so we don’t miss out on all the good stuff ;)
They’ve always been moderated.
Then why was one of my posts automatically posted and the other not?
Rachel Faith Anderson is a delusional bitchface and that’s all there is to it.
She has no legs to stand on, is doing this only for personal profit/gain, and deserves to have her vagina pulled out.
Making money from piracy isn’t cool.
That scene notice is classic.
lold
I haven’t seen such drama since Katerina Lovely hit Slyck.com
Sounds like the same person to me :O
http://pastebin.com/f4671f783
“RachelFaith.Registers.VortexNetwork.org.As.Business.To.Make.Money.Off.Scene
.Releases.DDOS.Immediately”
T3H 1EE3T3T3T SC34N4ARZ R GUNA DDDOSDOSDOS UDS 2 DFEFTH!!!
This is weird, anyway. I thought she registered it as non-profit, then it mentions for-profit? Maybe I’ll have to read it again.
There’s nothing wrong with OPTIONAL pay to leech. If it wasn’t optional, it would be terrible. It’s hard to get a good ratio on some trackers, more people leeching would be good (but not too many).
I don’t understand her problem with TPB though. It is very much out in the open.
erm….. next topic
Rachel Faith Anderson links:
http://samsonblinded.org/blog/giveaway-of-domains.htm
Where you can witness her begging for savethegop.org domain
http://johnmccainforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47
that one’s pretty telling if you ask me. She states: “liberal” is the very LAST thing on the list of names you can apply to me….
This one’s an idiot fer shure.
this sounds like a big scam to me..
hmm, well she wants to be the big corporation that gobbles up the speciality mom and pop bittorent communities.
honestly the whole starting point of the pay for status is common and accepted in many high ranking bittorent communities –>(VIP in TL)
However she has a point, the gazelle platform/Hydra project can/was created to be a tracker/community that never dies, instead of going against TPB/larger open trackers she should try and unite tpb to join the cause, as their missions are somewhat alike.
The whole point of “profiting from scene releases” is bs, if done correctly the money could be used for servers/lawyers/accountants/buying an island/dedicated seedboxes/whatever, but it all depends on the intentions of the person who receives the money.
I believe that the goal is fine, just the means and the whole thing of ripping of the Brokenstones staff was dirty, but it’s smart. gave her/the site instant fame and success which gave her a platform to do what she wanted –> World Domination!!!
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, donating/paying for immunity to leech is fine, money does run everything, and if you don’t want to pay, seed. if you can’t seed, donate, simple….
getting the hydra/gazelle project running is fine by me, the more the better. i will still stick to my private networks, however i give her some advice, either be an open tracker that never dies and wants to unite/free the bittorent users for free
OR
close the tracker, care about ratio/donating/whatnot but don’t try and talk about freeing the bittorent community from the the legal stuff
you have to choose between the betterment of bittorrent –> open tracker be a figurehead like you want to be, or close it–> private tracker, and care about donations, be anon and less public about everything
can’t buy the cake and eat it too!
- my 2 cents
I don’t like the “pay to leech” idea. Not because I think seeding is “moraly superior”, as RF put’s it, Every tracker needs money to pay the bandwith, colloc and hardware, but because it’s like buying from a street dealer imho. And that’s (over here in parts of good old europe) a totally different thing than filesharing, at least from a judges viewpoint.
TL;DR
[quote]This is just a single small step into a new world vision.[/quote]
Her speeches sound like she is some sect guru.
Couldn’t TorrentFreak at least have looked up subchapter S?
A suchapter S corporation is NOT an non-profit corporation. A suchapter S corporation is effectively a partnership that hopes to have the limited liability that corporations have. The limited liability protects Vortex’s owner … maybe.
Just look it up.
Also look at the news. US Senator Stevens was just indicted for corruption. He received services from a corporation called VECO. VECO’s former chairman pled guilty to bribery. Corporate limited liability didn’t help him.
There is a new posting on Vortex about the issue, so every member should read before posting here. Imho it settles some of the dust.
RachelFaith = downfall of Vortex and everything that the bittorrent community is not. Here’s proof:
http://pastebin.com/f1ec716f2
http://pastebin.com/f765dcfd4
http://pastebin.com/f5f7e81ce
Vortex Network is doomed
She is certainly long-winded. Welcome to the sound-bite world, RFA!
@ Ry…. Since when it the intentional hijack and corporatization of BT not a harbinger of gloom? This is crazy and I await TPB’s response to this (if they even choose to validate her and her position) as well as the (completely unrelated to TPB) inevitable DDOS chicanery she will likely suffer at the hands of wiser folx.
Rachel Faith Anderson links:
http://samsonblinded.org/blog/giveaway-of-domains.htm
Where you can witness her begging for savethegop.org domain
http://johnmccainforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47
that one’s pretty telling if you ask me. She states: “liberal” is the very LAST thing on the list of names you can apply to me….
This one’s an idiot fer shure.
This whore should be shot.
Trying to “unite” the bittorrent community by force is the worst thing anyoe could possibly do, ESPECIALLY if they think Ann Coulter is someone to be admired.
http://www.stallioncornell.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4090
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Hmm… that’s quite a bit to read, will do that later… but that P2L (Pay to Leech if I understand right) is just not ok…
Nothing that forces you to pay (this may be different, but the model just sounds that way to leech is a good system, because you cannot really “share” anything for free, so it’s not filesharing anymore… it’s a new form of the UseNet…
I’m a big believer in voting with your feet.
If you think she’s wonderful, stay with her. If you think she’s a time bomb, get out of range before she explodes.
But ANYONE (her, her fans, or her detractors) who tries to keep an Internet pissfight going is just competing in the Special Olympics.
http://fr.pastebin.ca/1086534
:/
She needs to dust off the vag and get some action. Silly little cunt. If yor bitch gets out of pocket, you must whoop her ass!
There is a new mac tracker coming out that will ACTUALLY BE WHAT EVERYONE WANTED, as a good BS replacement.
Stay effing tuned.
Ann Coulter is one of the worst people in the world :(
Anderson, Rachel
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(303) 642-8357
i’m sorry, but wtf?
“In short such thinking is beyond bullshit, and the mark of juvenile thinking and weak egos who cannot bear the thought that they are not superior to someone else”
no… it isn’t anything to do with superiority or inferiority, it is merely the fact that many of the people in the BitTorrent community (myself included) believe that if you add the possibility to PAY for a decent ratio creates a system that is much more consumerist and ruins much of the ‘free-for-all’ thinking behind BitTorrent, i do not want to see the system destroyed by greedy, money grabbing *cough* music/film industry *cough* people, like Rachel Faith Anderson, who just want to use the BitTorrent community as their cash cow, or as an enemy in the case of the MPAA/RIAA. also, and this is simply a personal point, my god that woman’s pompous writing style pisses me off.
“Rachel denies that the site is accepting payments in this fashion, indicating that the code was already present in ‘Gazelle’.”
oRly?
Session Time: Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 2008
[13:21] we just hit some issues on coding the donations page and the getting it to work with the tables
[13:21] I am going to talk to whatman in 5 hours after work tonight
[13:22] really, you should have just had to change the email addy link, worked flawlessly for setting up another site.
[13:23] LOL
[13:23] Nothin is that simple with me
[13:23] I changed everythting
[13:23] = D
YaRly
“When I say the little guy is just as good as anyone else, by God I mean it and will back it with force.”
Makes sense, when your intent is to make bank off as many people as possible in a “for-profit” scheme that hides behind a “not-for-profit” label. Of course you don’t want to be elitist, the little guy’s money is just as green. Why bother limiting invites and disabling crap users that don’t share–that’s the target donator right there!!
The biggest irony is that registering as a 501c4 non-profit (as I’ve read Vortex Network supposedly has) only serves to call more attention to your practices from the IRS than if said group simply incorporated as an LLC or some other business partnership. This is likely done to give the appearance of being noble and just, all the while, and despite all the long-winded rhetoric, attempting to misguide the user base that is the pool of donors. “Oh, this $10 I’m donating must go exclusively for servers, operating expenses right?”
If anyone believes that this sysadmin doesn’t intend to establish herself as a salaried employee of the non-profit, you’re either kidding yourself or misinformed about what a non-profit organization can do with its monies.
I’m not suggesting that other BT sites don’t similarly pocket donated monies, some more than others, but I’ve seen none attempt to put up such a virtuous front about it as an attempt to simply scam the userbase out of cash.
Also, per IRS Publication 557:
“An exempt organization must also make available for public inspection without charge its application for tax-exempt status. An application
for tax exemption includes the application form (such as Form 1023 or 1024), all documents and statements the IRS requires the organization to file with the form, any statement or other supporting document submitted by an organization in support of its application, and any letter or other document issued by the IRS concerning the application.”
Who’d like a copy?? Show of hands, please.
More on non-profits:
http://nonprofitmanagement.suite101.com/blog.cfm/can_a_nonprofit_make_a_profit
Ok, so what about this. S-corporation creates limited liability. People can sue the S-corporation but not the individual. This effectively protects Rachel. But what if all this talk about “members” not users is an attempt to make all the members basically employed by or some how a part of this S-corporation. This is made even more plausible by the fact that it is a non profit. At the end of the day the worst that can happen is the company is lost but all the members (and Rachel) are protected.
eh i failed but neways
[13:21] RachelFaith- we just hit some issues on coding the donations page and the getting it to work with the tables
[13:21] RachelFaith- I am going to talk to whatman in 5 hours after work tonight
[13:22] qMark- really, you should have just had to change the email addy link, worked flawlessly for setting up another site.
[13:23] RachelFaith- LOL
[13:23] RachelFaith- Nothin is that simple with me
[13:23] RachelFaith- I changed everythting
[13:23] RachelFaith- = D
If they are doing what they think they are doing. then this is pretty much a really good idea..
The pay to leech concept means they have to be running seedboxes to keep your ratio fair with the trackers otherwise you’d be banned right?
Anyone who pays for a seedbox is essentially manually doing what they do for you and that is providing upload bandwidth at speeds you could never achieve.
This in fact will keep torrents more healthier than ever as all torrents will have tons more seeders all providing high bandwidth.
The ONLY way that this could be bad is if the trackers are simply having what you’ve uploaded edited, hurting the torrents.
I know RachelFaith Very well.
She is like a kid, jumping everywhere.
I don’t know why TF toke her E-Mails seriously. Just ignore her, that’s all.
RachelFaith a dumb @ss
Notable Brokenstones.cn has retracted its recommendation for Vortex and recommended the classics.
Also as posted before, Rachel is content to do whatever she feels like.
http://pastebin.com/f1ec716f2
http://pastebin.com/f5f7e81ce
Some no name person is going to unit all the sites?
I think we need a pirate charter but…
in reality, P2L (pay 2 leech) is in my eyes unexceptable… in cases where we have music or legitmate video (tv, movies)… It needs to be kept alive…
As for Porn and such well… P2L is probably a big help to the system… if anything i’d be a great way for Porn companies to make back profits… because sadly they probably are lossing to torrents in the long run.
#27
nice logs…’specially this part
[01:50] of both the existing music paradigm and the reality of future delivery
[01:50] I see this coming
[01:51] the change
[01:51] and to be frank, I see an oportunity to be there first and to make money doing it
aaaannnndd
[16:43] so do you really use it as a company, shares and returns or is it more of a nominal corp just to front protection
[16:44] The latter. We aren’t in this to make a profit.
[16:44] Your experience is months ahead for me
[16:44] LOL
[16:44] I would have been just taking best guesses
[16:44] Our staff works for nothing but the satisfaction we get out of running the best music site in the world.
[16:45] All very well and good. But that doesnt have to STAY that way longer term.
id have to look it up but hasnt she been saying for days now that vortex wasnt going to be about profits? guess not…
damn it, it takes out the names…hopefully you know which one is whatman and which one is rachelfaith…
“We are a legal and legitimate Tax Exempt Corporation. Any other site taking money of any kind for any reasons and not filing with the authorities needs to face the facts that p2p may not have ever put anyone in prison, but tax evasion has done so to the best of mice and men.”
Mice dont have to pay taxes.
Dumb Hole.
gb2kitchen
Making money from piracy is as bad as the current music ‘industry’. Neither should be supported and the ‘industry’ is going down the pan.
I guess Mrs Fancy pants forgets about those from ET who have done time for P2P, Scott McCausland and Grant Stanley did 5 months in Federal Prison, not for tax evasion but for copyright infringement. So for her to say that “p2p may not have ever put anyone in prison” I say BULLSHIT!! Those that remember the day that ET was shut down it was a dark day across the BT community as a whole.
Get your facts straight lady before shooting off your mouth and defending those that don’t need defending by you. I think your staff was smart to walk out on you and protect themselves, after all could be you facing time and not sure anyone would miss you as much.
Since your a rookie, I guess you forgot about those that walked this path before you…or maybe you did and just don’t care.
[RachelFaith] I see this coming
[RachelFaith] the change
[RachelFaith] and to be frank, I see an oportunity to be there first and to make money doing
Your all missing the point.
Is this Rachel chick hot?
#57 i’m going to go with no
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=287952509
you cannot fool a bittorrent community. filesharers are the best of people
Rats! All those condesending remarks, and she’s not even hot.
this girl is bona fide loony. she obviously has no understanding of the nature of BT community… i wouldn’t exactly call it welcoming to self-proclaimed revolutionaries. especially when they’re trying to change the entire operations-model.
Sure is getting her/him the response he/she was prolly looking for, look at all this front page news lmfao…It’s one way to promote a site I guess. But seriously, She/He amounts to a bunch of Bu11Sh1t and will self destruct. My hats off to the staff and “members” that got out of dodge.
I’m surprised no one has linked this Mac-only tracker to Narcissism
I had no clue people with down syndrom could admin trackers.
She’ll end up in jail, tongfa raped, so just have to wait.
Damn I hate idiots like her who think they’re on a mission.
well im on a mission.. to destroy the evil industrys.. do you hate me?
“I just want to do my thing my way and in peace.” she said.
I had a psychopath diagnosed girlfriend who kept repeating that kind of bullshits.
This rachelfaith seems to be the insane kind too; after reading the logs.
Misplaced “LOL”s also.
Borderline schizophrenic = not good to run a business.
She sounds like a psychopathic whiny conservative narcissistic spoiled child.
Running around high on sugar having visions and being “friends” with everyone so long as they play her games how she wants them to and otherwise biting their head off at the drop of a hat.
Someone needs to get a a cattle prod and some candy and train her how to interact nicely with other people.
A little help to the people that do not want P2L. Ghostleech 2tm at the tracker insted :P (Google it)
She’s a stupid user.
I forgot two-faced.
Psychopathic whiny conservative narcissistic two-faced spoiled child.
Anyone that uses that style of marketing double speak she does should not be trusted.
Oh and hypocritical too, In so many ways in such a short time, makes you wonder if she thinks at all before opening her mouth.
Rachel=MPAA best freind
she is a nice person and a even better admin, is she hot well…. i know how she looks like but ill leave you all to make your own minds up. just leave her alone cause all admins/sysops start of somewhere…
a friend from IPT
just from reading the logs, she’s definitely not nice.
narcissistic cuckoo brat crook is closer to truth imo.
And I have to mention I am not a what.cd user, in case the bitch turns psycho once again against those guys.
Another thing that caught my attention here. This newly formed friendship with whatman and rachel, IMO, he didnt shut his trap soon enough. From viewing the logs closely, she seemed to be just fishing for any knowledge he would give. The important basic facts about running a p2p torrent site, she “seemed” ignorant too. I do applaud him for being careful as he was plainly so and didn’t babble anywhere near her perfect banter. His obvious knowledge and her apparent lack there of, should have told him to avoid this debacle all together.
Absolutely.
Also notice that the message she wrote was cut, which gets me to suspect that she had already prepared an answer to whatman concerning her so-called “defense to aggression by the other site’s members”, which leads me to suppose this was a set-up.
Maybe this woman is just an agent provocateur or a infiltrated traitor, if she’s not a sicko.
tbh this sounds a little familiar.
because essentially what she is saying is that everyone is equal, but its easier to be equal if you have money?
where have i hear that before? soviet russia anyone.
maybe we should discuss that possibility, or should that be debate ?
FREE SEEDBOX!!
hmm what does US propaganda have to do there ?
it’s just anti p2p, end of story
btw : you cannot really blame the american justice to be bought by the richest ones and blame ‘better equality through money’ on soviet russia, can you ?
note that I am not a communist, I just know history a bit :p
She should stop thinking she’s Barak ‘the Messiah’ Obama and get herself a job writing speeches for him instead.
Dunno if it fear, or censorship but this one got deleted within minutes on the Vortex Forum.
thanks for the guy who placed it, AMAZING
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What is this?.
http://pastebin.com/f1ec716f2+
http://pastebin.com/f5f7e81ce
You´d better talk about your business ideas from the very beginning, instead inviting us to share our files and invite others throught us to do the same and then push the panic button. (Sorry my English).
I can find a lot of information about this everywhere… as the RIAA can find too.
Thanks to fool us, to betray us and others, thanks to share your neo-cons ideals since the beginning (http://johnmccainforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47) you dont know they can follow you till here??
Thanks to be so popular on internet and then try to make a “fake private” place.
Thanks for deny us talking about this site outside and then enjoy yourself and do this:
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-43/t-threat-bittorrent-305235
Thanks for share with us all your non-profit “ideals” its nice to see how easy can we be cheated (even now there is a lot of people that believe on you).
Did you finally learned how to get your password back?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5064391
DO i have to write more for my account to be deleted or i have to send an PM??
I hope your imperialist vision is stopped, at least, not in my name.
Bye.
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*Claps*
Here’s furher Rachel’s latest insight into the state of the content available on vortex….
As a significant majority of the uploaders do have the legal rights to the files as they have the CDs, DVDs, codes in hand. So, Id come closer to saying that 99% of the files ARE legal.
Who is she kidding.
I love this line:
[22:18] I could give a flying fuck about the BitTorrent world.
[22:18] Honestly speaking.
[22:18] Unfortunately for you, your entire staff and userbase does.
That girl’s got some ego problems.
Well, as someone who operates a torrent tracker with around 8,000 members I have to say that I agree entirely with her perspective.
The P2L issue is spurious because it detracts from the core issues and is an easy target for dissenters who have nothing more intelligent to contribute.
@75 ya i agreeee
she sounds exactly like an fbi spy. whatman really gave out a bunch of information, hopefully it was all fake and he used a good proxy.
the best part is “want to talk on the phone?” … i guess skype video is also now w/ backdoors?
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Bitch Shut Down Permanently:
“We are a legal and legitimate Tax Exempt Corporation”
In this release we have included her name, dob, occupation, location
, a few pictures of her, and some nudes because I know alot of you
like rough sex.. so you can be like, “DIE BITCH”.. *fap* *fap*.
And To What.cd, we actually like you, because the majority doesnt
steal scene releases :-). But what a dumb fucken mistake that was
giving up the work of several people spending thousands of hours
on your Project Gazelle Source Code, that musta hurt..hope you
changed the SVN password ;)
And Ms.Gonorrhea’s (RachelFaiths) partner Tigernetic :-) You
dumb motherfucker :-)
We are going to use this tracker to distribute legal
software directly from developers and artists.
WHY IN THE FUCKEN HELL WOULD LEGITIMATE COMPANIES WANT TO USE
A PIRATE TRACKER? GOD GAVE YOU A FUCKEN BRAIN… USE IT.
Oh and you dumb niggas
“RachelFaith.Registers.VortexNetwork.org.As.Business.To.Make.Money.
Off.Scene.Releases.DDOS.Immediately” = FAKE, ill delpre that shit
in a couple seconds.. or maybe i shouldn’t a DDOS would be nice, but
how about we up and ante and request a complete destruction, root
the entire and erase you from existance. :( I sure hope you have
backups because your OVH Server will soon be ours ;-)
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like our vision. The ones who call the shots. The big guys who do
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any scener affiliated with p2p WILL be castrated so they know
better. ;-)
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to the nudes, cum all over it and pre it again. As lil wayne would
say, no homo.
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war is far from over. Just keep that in your mind next time
you download from an Scene FTP server and plan on uploading
to a lame ass p2p tracker.
Thats it..
Enjoy The Release, We Enjoyed Making It ;]
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She claims that she doesn’t want “elitism” in bt, but then she says this (ostensibly about a site like TPB):
[01:36] And put the crappy public embarrassing trackers who give us a bad name out of business
What a hypocrite!
Vortex is doomed — it’s being run by a megalomaniac.
The Pirate Bay stands for all that is righteous in filesharing. That, and the fact that what they are doing is *still legal* in their country (Sweden).
She is condemning “public embarrassing trackers” who have actually risked their own livlihood to pave the way just so she can come in and be the Dictator of her own little kingdom set up to profit (while claiming the opposite out of the other side of her yap)?
What a retard!
Is it any wonder that she comes off as even more “elitist” than those who disagree with her?
She wants to make money off of the backs of people (the bittorrent community) who actually understand the *spirit* of file sharing.
Oh, and anyone who aspires to be like Ann Coultergeist has more than a few screws loose.
Wow. If she’s that loony, why is she worth all this pissing and moaning instead of ignoring her? You’re only as worthy as your adversary, you know.
it’s a single admin doing this… why don’t they just ban and ignore her instead of this shit storm..
As a significant majority of the uploaders do have the legal rights to the files as they have the CDs, DVDs, codes in hand. So, Id come closer to saying that 99% of the files ARE legal.
Jul 30, 2008 at 23:40 by baka pinkuu
“Wow. If she’s that loony, why is she worth all this pissing and moaning instead of ignoring her? You’re only as worthy as your adversary, you know.”
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Because she is going to pull in innocent people who might actually believe the crap she spews?
As an “adversary” — well, she has herself as her own worst enemy to take care of that. It’s just too bad that she has just enough linguistic ability to double-talk many into thinking she is bittorrent’s Messiah.
She is the physical incarnation of “malware” and the more people there are who know about her, the better. Ignoring her will simply allow her to continue to trap the gullible.
WTF? Most of my fave sites have pay-for-ratio… big whoop. I think it’s great because my upload speed is poor compared to the super fast seed boxes a lot of ppl have. This is a total non-event.
I don’t have a plan. The RIAA has plans, the cops have plans. you know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught one. I just DO things. I’m a wrench in the gears. I HATE plans. Yours, theirs, everyone’s. The IFPI has plans, BS had plans. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I am not a schemer. I show schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So when I say that what happened to you and your girlfriend wasn’t personal, you know I’m telling the truth. It’s a schemer who put you where you are. You were a schemer. You had plans. Look where it got you. I just did what I do best-I took your plan and turned it on itself. Look what I have done to this community with a few drums of gas and a couple bullets. Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I AM AN AGENT OF CHAOS.
–RachelFaith
YAY!
rachelfaith = agent of faggotry
TLDR, but what I *did* read of her rhetoric; sheesh.
The Bene Gesserit needs to put away her Gom Jabbar. Or stick herself with it. Maybe it’s better that way.
“There is a page where users can pay cash to fix their share ratio, enabling them to opt-out of seeding and get ‘customer’ or ‘patron’ status.”
For your information it is ‘patron’ or ‘noble’ status.
shes been banned off several tracker i know off.
Looking at the P2L model with a bit of logic, people would see that it’s actually a GOOD thing to implement. Those who can’t upload fast enough (or want to snatch ‘unpopular’ torrents) can still contribute to the upkeep of trackers with $ and get thier jollies from whatever they download. Add to that they will be downloading from seeders and increasing their ratio in the process, it all works rather well imho.
Thank-you for your patience in waiting over 3 weeks for your server ms rachelfaith, with the pertinent information logged here, be advised that your now being investigated.
“I don’t have a plan. The RIAA has plans, the cops have plans. you know what I am? …”
So you’ve seen the newest Batman movie? :)
I find it funny that she will make money off of scene releases; I do not know if this is true, or is not. She has it coming to her if she does, but DDoS is not what the scene would actually do, but I remember reading an .nfo where and older scene member told the whole community to stop with the non-sense of bringing out members of scene groups, might only apply to groups, or he meant everyone that operates a p2p site.
If she is going to make money off of it, then I hope she gets struck. The gazelle code-base doesn’t have the feature to pay for your ratio.
To reply to #3, that is only for a month. That is only to keep the servers to stay afloat, and you can even email Umlauf to take you off the special status.
Yeah, she sounds like a Matrix Geek! Screw Vortex. By the way I was a loyal brokenstone member with a excellent Ratio. I didnt get an email, invite or nothing. I guess I should have $$DONATED$$ to be considered VALUABLE!
So much for being loyal to any community. Good thing im a member of other Torrent sites or I would be in the dark. No thanks to the Greatest MAC community!
RachelFaith = B I T C H
We don’t trust you, you are a W H O R E….
Get out of here.
RachelFaith, i think you have much free time wasting our time by opening this topic.
Get our of here and let us leave in peace.
You are a piece of SH*T
RachelFaith is a lamer.
RF get lost. A-hole.
RachelFaith, in my point of view, you are completely wrong.
I am at some trackers, they never forced me to donate, i donate when i wanted to.
I never had one single PM or email to donate, i donate because i want them to be online & i appreciate their hard work.
RachelFaith, you are acting like a 13 years old girl.
Grow UP.
LMAO @ 101
All of you losers are just jealous that I have a tracker and you cattle aren’t smart enough to do something with your life. If you had half the brain me and my mentor Ann Coulter have you would see how much of a genius I am. LOL!
All the upstarts who try to profit from free file sharing don’t succeed
SHE is actually a HE.
“All of you losers are just jealous that I have a tracker and you cattle aren’t smart enough to do something with your life. If you had half the brain me and my mentor Ann Coulter have you would see how much of a genius I am. LOL!”
i have a tracker i still think your an idiot your not welcome on my tracker or any tracker that i work with which is well most off them
so fuck the hell off. we dont want you the scene hates you,your a failure in every way form and sense
My time is better spent preaching hatred and intolerance and death to all who oppose me!
This was the most annoying thing I have every read.
Amen.
this bitch has a point and all you little motherfuckers are missing it
the bit torrent community gets a bad rap in the real world because we act like pirates thieves/children with our undercover sites and legal loop holes
acting like we are guilty we should be forming into companies sharing revenues from advertising and using the money for lawyers and billboards, advertising in newspapers, debunking the lies Hollywood has fed us for too long
as it stands we get hacked and sued and we don’t retaliate we have a bunch of sweds writing mean things on their legal page and fuck thats it we are acting like sad pathetic nerds we should be fighting like men
this time is now
we need respect money and power behind us to counter sue when Hollywood hacked the pirate bay etc we should have been there in the courts attacking we need the lawyers
with respect behind p2p, politicians will sit up and notice they can win favor by following us like the sheep they are
its courage from this bitch and others like her that will push p2p out into the public view
p2p should be an ongoing moral debate in law not a crime
I know it, you know it so stop putting this bitch down and merge the Bit torrent communities apply to become legitimate companies and raise that money we own the most popular websites on the fucking internet we have the resources
to change the law
she works for FBI…
how can you dominate the world when your platform only has a fraction of the market share?
To those advocating for-profitness in order to pay for changing laws:
You can’t change these laws without a tremendous amount of lobbying power. There’s no way that the p2p “industry” would be able to outclass the MPAA and RIAA when it comes to lobbying; there simply isn’t a way of amassing enough money from pirates. Pirates don’t want to pay for stuff and they’re not going to pay for access to it anymore than they have to (pretty much an internet connection).
I rather use a free tracker over a payed membership tracker any time. If I like the tracker, I’ll donate. I won’t pay to join or use a tracker though (and I doubt many others will).
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Rachel seems like a bitch from the way she acts, writes, and associates herself. I have a lot of experience with people like her, and they never bring anything good to the table. Rachel just wants to manipulate her current users into killing off her competitors so that she can leech money from what’s left of the BitTorrent community. Luckily, this won’t happen. Not many are going to move to her tracker when there are so many far superior trackers. She can’t get rid of many of those without physically annihilating the administrators. Like the ultra-Conservatives she admires, she’s merely looking for a business opportunity. She doesn’t care about the community or the legality, just the money that she thinks she can make from it.
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I have a problem with anyone who admires (M)Ann Coulter, especially people who talk like her and semi-quote titles and contents of her books. I think Rachel is truly trying to copy (M)Ann Coulter’s stupidity (whether she sees it as that or not).
-freddy
all this talk of community seems to ignore the fact that these communities are comprised of PIRATES. piracy. that is what we engage in. we are communities of pirates; we’re undercover because what we do is illegal. p2p isn’t sharing, it’s piracy!!! arrrr
Oh boy , someone posted the logs of the IRC chat, and I was in them :/ Yeah basically, I was releasing DND crax/serials for this site, until I got word of this whole business from oorza. This whole thing pisses me off, seeing as I did this site a favor :(
Yes, Rachel, we’re all just JEALOUS of you. We’re JEALOUS that you’re attempting to assimilate the entire BitTorrent community into your sick and twisted little game. We’re JEALOUS of your neo-conservative views; it just so happens that file-sharers tend to lean to the left. We’re JEALOUS of you deceiving people so you can amass money. We’re JEALOUS that you can’t run Ubuntu and we can.
The Pirate Bay founders are better men than YOU’LL ever be, she-man. They have the balls to stand up for what they believe in, unlike you who wants to hide behind a non-profit corporation while you perform your attempted Ponzi scheme on the BitTorrent community. BITCH.
You will never succeed, Rachel Faith Anderson. As the responses have shown, you will have your ass handed to you by a number of different people; from the scene, to your staff, to your users, to any one of the inordinate internet organizations, such as Anonymous.
Your bleating metaphorical carcass will serve as a warning to any others attempting to duplicate your feat: Attempting to swindle and deceive the BitTorrent community WILL result in your ruin.
Your slutty racist conservative “mentor” is reviled by anyone with common human decency; so your “mentor” is about as good a person as Michael Savage on Autism, or Bill O’Reilly on sexually abused children.
Rachel Faith Anderson; you have attempted to lie, deceive, swindle, coerce, and dehumanize the BitTorrent Community, and for this, you shall suffer.
As a special shout-out, I would like to thank The Pirate Bay founders, for being both brave and excellent at what they do. Bravo.
http://pastebin.com/f4671f783
Oh, please, let’s be fair about her:
1. Not taking sides here but to call her a “Rookie Admin” as if she was any worse than 99% of other Private Tracker sysops is pretty lame.
2. So she wants to take over and dominate? Well ain’t all top private trackers dominated already! (by a little “mafia” since 2006)
3. Make money, she says? Oh, the horror, some say? Ask how much $$$ Torrentleech siteop gets every month, just to one fat paycheck.
4. Her pretentious Vortex frontpage message any different from the pretentious What.cd frontpage message? They’re pretty much the same bollocks.
In view of the facts then, I think this Rachel dominatrix is in her element, mates. May the best (or the worst) win then. But frankly, I think show is over, for em Private Trackers, since September 2007.
I might be wrong, though. “Time will tell”, like enigmax said (or kiss and tell).
Thanks for another indepth report, mate, much appreciated.
When even rats quit the ship, sailor knows it’s gonna sink
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she working for RIAA by any chance?
please stop
#124 ftn is the biggest joke 0day tracker. ever. s*t owns ur face
Dunno who she’s working for, but bitch got logorrhoea. Why use one word when a thousand will suffice?
May the time come soon that the term ‘capitalist’ is a dirty word…
She’s a fucking joke. Don’t You see that she’s only having fun? She’s a troll - a clumsy one.
rofl @ the scene release. you got the wrong girl, she is clearly from connecticut (co). the scene is fucking dumb
join, [RachelFaith] [~RachelFai@moofspeak-F8888993.hsd1.co.comcast.net]
her weed is not that good
Get out. Nobody pays and we all do our share.
Everyone knows Vortex is logging connections. Rachel Faith is a corporate RIAA stooge.
Oh yeah, and you’re not allowed to publish their URL in public, if you can believe that bullshit. Or even say “Vortex Network”, and ‘Eye of the Storm’ should be used instead. What.cd has made a great mistake by helping out this P2L community.
Fuck I got sick of reading that 1/2 way through.
I don’t give a shit there are so many comments no one will ever see this one.
But utter hilarity at the fact of what I did read, she banged on about equality and trying to make everyone equal, but she’s not in any way shape or form willing to consider anyone else’s point of view…
Umm yeah that’s called being elitist, the current systems in place may have their flaws, but at least we’re not hypocrites about it…
She just wants the $$$. All that long-winded sentences and paragraphs means she wants control of all money streams. She is a money-grubbing slut. Seeders are the lords of file sharing, as are donators who seed. Donators who do not seed are thieves, little better than leechers.
arca, dood. What’s with the whole ‘overhead will keep us safer’ bullshit?
Billboards? Are you fucking stupid? What part of the torrent scene would look best blown up to billboard size? What would that accomplish? I think you haven’t even thought this through. Part of the reason people like the torrent scene the way it is is because it doesn’t look/feel like the sanitized, skin-deep bullshit on the major medias. This whole homogenization of the torrent scene to be like the companies we hate (most of us anyhow) is so far beyond the pale as to be viewed as a RachelFaith comment with arca’s name on it….
http://johnmccainforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49
The Globalist bent to this is chilling. As is the mindless adherence to the (R). Gaytown.
maybe the sister of “indiana”?
http://pastebin.com/f1ec716f2
Rachel’s got at least the slightest hint of a great idea in that batshit crazed head of hers, but she’s not the influential pirate that could pull it off. Until she loses her delusions of grandeur, I’m staying the fuck away from Vortex…
First they get all the small sites into one huge site and BOOM they close and arrest them all…
DUH
Some remarks made by Mactus on the IRC recently:
[19:06] Mactus: There are significant changes coming…
[19:06] xnorb: Yes?
[19:06] Mactus: Yep.
[19:06] xnorb: Any… more?
[19:06] InTheCave: someone stepping down?
[19:07] xnorb: Blood. Stone.
[19:07] Mactus: I’ll ask that you wait for the announcement…but significant.
pff a McCain supporter… I’ve seen enough.
BrokenStones was a good site, maybe there will be a good replacement one day, but I am sure vortex won’t be one of them.
“An organism at war with itself…IS doomed” This is the trolls objective
RachelFaiths version of her “New World (p2l) Order lol. Simple really
But her approach isnt secretive, but so obvious and most likely the model which she used to get this laugh going. Bit of a mockery of the way the Governments of today operate.
Is she crazy? I dont want her on the Internet anymore..
none of this feels right -
she is republican, Jewish, works in the music industry,is in Law & is very young.
Sounds like a set up
Down with the Vortex Network
She likes anal, and I gave it to her good and hard.
Talk about serious bias in an article.. Too bad, you used to be better, torrentfreak!
here is a picture of Rachel Faith Anderson
http://asva.info/vortex-network-vilaguralmi-tervek-2008-07-30.html
Rachel (can i call you Rach? you can call me Hen) we NEED your talents on h33t. please come to h33t and be co-admin. you are in charge of donations and building us into a mega-site that will bring the world together in torrenting love
http://www.h33t.com where filesharing is serious, honest Rachel we respect you
Dude: lol you dont know what your talking about
She’s no longer the owner of her IRC channel, so it looks like she’s going.
I actually think she is just too stupid!
She needs something similar to a sceneban but worse. Can we kick her off of Teh Internets?
We should send her to Scene Jail…where she gets constantly raped with various objects stuck up her vagina by other inmates!
New technologies are always promoting world development, now emotionally also have a new form!! ï¼ï¼Fortunately, I had the opportunity to understand many of these girls!!We meet on agelessmatch.C O M!!!!
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[22:18] I could give a flying fuck about the BitTorrent world.
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[22:18] Honestly speaking.
rumour says, stats have been reset, so all the user start again by zero. seems like she lost control over her site.
The stylesheet is gone, just like the fora and the stats seem to have been reset.
It’s back up and the stats look proper, again.
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[02:06] These giant private sites sound a lot like demonoids.
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[02:06] Is that the sort of model you’re aiming for? Private, but not really?
i lol’d
From IRC:
[11:06] stevader: the site is down, due to a failed backup process, the restore being used is not staying up, the restore that will be up shortly will be either 4 hours or 8 hours old
So just be patient, most things will be restored. The site is up atm with a 36h old backup.
She is gone nuts
“RachelFaith.Registers.VortexNetwork.org.As.Business.To.Make.Money.Off.Scene
.Releases.DDOS.Immediately”
LMAO
Just wondering if the setup as an NGO corporation is to prevent lawsuits directed at her while she still reaps the profits - i.e. if companies sue, they sue the NGO not the employee.
Wow dude that is pretty wicked indeed.
JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
I am suspecious of this site but just by posting this, I am almost certain that Vortex will get a upsurge of new memebers.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this Rachel Faith character is actually affiliated with MPAA or RIAA.
Damn I am so damn dumb. I can’t even spell supecious correctly. Ooops did I just do that again.
You also do not know how to us punctuations correctly.
owned :)
@joker:
Corrections should be spell-checked.
she suffers from Mad Cow Disease…
[01:49] p2p is the future
[01:49] apple ipod itunes, without cripling DRM is the future
[01:50] we obviously know that stealing it is not the futre
[01:50] but we can, with civil disobedience, change the public perception
[01:50] of both the existing music paradigm and the reality of future delivery
[01:50] I see this coming
[01:51] the change
[01:51]
and to be frank, I see an oportunity to be there first and to make money doing it
As I posted elsewhere:
This sort of crap is exactly why you need to choose which priv torrent communities you are going to be a part of VERY carefully.
She’s crazy/strange enough to go off in a direction completely unsound. She can not be trusted. She’s already lashed out on attacks, and became real defensive.
This is another good reason to keep separate passwords for each site…god knows if this woman and her cronies will be stealing the password hashes from their database and running a rainbow crack on it or some shiz.
Avoid her and her site at all costs. Just my opinion…
Winston Churchill said the only difference between war and politics, is that when politics is involved, you may die many deaths. This is the nature of those who choose to take the path of leadership. Your only duty is to protect those who follow you. Sometimes that protection means utterly giving yourself to cause.
In recent days you have seen a small but very vocal and very irate group of folks attempt to bring this site down. I have allowed them their say. I believe in the rights of those in the minority to be able to speak, even if I would disagree with every point of contention made. The right is superior to the content.
But, alas, when a mob reaches a certain crescendo the lines are crossed and there is no turning back. The same is true when a leader becomes more the element of the mob than do the issues themselves. This is the risk, and the duty of a leader. To protect the vision, even at the ultimate cost. And that is my commitment and my action. When a mob cannot by reason assail the substance, they assail the messenger. The messenger is always the expendable one, without regard to title or privilege.
Effective yesterday, Mactus became Caesar. So long as the issue is “Rachel, Rachel, Rachel”, the voice of reason is unheard and invisible. So I have resigned to take that issue away from the mob, and return the topic to reason and reason alone, detached from the cult of personality.
I leave this community in good and trusted hands. I will always be available for personal contact, it is not like I am hard to find.
Rachel Faith
Mactus became ceo you mean.
She has been banned from vortex, where I am apparently a member.
RachelFaith
You are not Obama, you can’t pull off flowery speeches. Don’t try.
Rachel’s Kampf
Rachel, you seriously consider yourself a “leader”? And not knowing the difference between use and abuse?
I USE bittorrent network to share stuff. (being a member on a site is unfortunate necessity)
You abuse it to make money. What, your lawyer salary not enough? Or are you just destined to do greater things? Leading a revolution perhaps? Will you show us “the mob” true light? I look forward to seeing your list of official music;)
Well I feel a bit sorry for her, but she seems to have thick skin so its pointless. I think she is slightly mad - she’s acting like a Rupert Murdoch yet has nothing behind all of this big corporate business talk crap. Good story though, interesting to find out about people like that - I wonder what she will be up to in 20 years?
What a lol cow… That is one stupid cunt… just incredibly full of shit. Ah, “The Next Ann Coulter” that explains it. West coast, douche bag, American college student was clear early on.
Vortex Leader Resigns, Spawns Spinoff Site from Ex-Staff
August 02, 08
Rachel Faith, the sysop/admin of Vortex Network, has resigned today after heavy repercussions due to an alleged Pay2Leech scandal and a global “BitTorrent Domination” mindset. Vortex staffers have been jumping ship even before her tended resignation/impeachment, and even What.cd - who supplied the Gazelle codebase and worked closely throughout the developmental stages - has now officially disassociated themselves from any connection to Vortex.
http://filesharefreak.com/images1/vortex3.jpg
Meanwhile, a brand-new Mac tracker comprised of ex-Vortex staff is using the Gazelle codebase (with What.cd endorsement), making it only the fourth tracker to use What.cd’s much-applauded Gazelle.
http://filesharefreak.com/images1/vortex1_small.jpg
The Vortex roster looks very slim as of late, with just a skeleton crew of a few remaining hangers-on. Staffers who wish to salvage some credibility out of this sinking ship have all but washed their hands of the entire project.
wow it takes 2hours + to aproove a comment; nice moderating; NOT
just click and read since they dont seem to aproove.
http://filesharefreak.com/2008/08/02/vortex-leader-resigns-spawns-spinoff-site-for-ex-staff/
i seen word vagina in comments!!!! halp halp
and thats about all i need to say about that bitch
She didn’t mention The Pirate Bay. You are making assumptions here.
That’s not the best reporting in my opinion.
What does seem clear however, is that although in some ways her speech was inspiring, in many more ways she seems to be wanting to start her own:
CULT
Save The Coratee!
[Suzuki]
Umm Yes she did mention the Pirate Bay and called them a bunch of drunks.
I think in a matter of weeks she’ll become anti-piracy and use her law skills to fight against all of us, now that the pirate community has unleashed itself on her ass. I smell revenge.
I still don’
t care what they say, any tracker or torrent service located in the United States I will not join, WTF? That site will not last long, why the US, guess they must be the MPAA, or wanting to get busted.
good luck to her. she’s got a lot of guts for challenging the current private tracker mentality and sounds to me like she only had good intentions.
nearly every private tracker i know allows for donations to bump up your ratio. big-fucking-deal. your not paying for movies/music/software people. get over yourselves…
jesus christ! im well aware of what im doing and use private trackers because of good speeds. yes that means people seeding files, I seed stuff I download because I simply dont want to pay when I can leave my connection open. i understand people dont want to do that so if they want a decent ratio they pay for it. the money goes to seedboxes at the private tracker.
wow, big deal… get off your high-horses some of you, your so far up your own arse on this stuff its a pain to read…. she’s getting shit for no real reason, unless she’s pocketting it herself i say good on her…
She’s fallen off the grid since she got her ass banned from several trackers for her stupidity.
the scene ppl got her NUDE PICS of rachel faith LOL:
http://rapidshare.de/files/40121289/RachelFaith.If.This.Isnt.Ownage.I.Dont.Know.What.Is.READ.NFO-ViCADiN.zip.html
download, this crazy bitch is FINE!! :) YUM
All you ever wanted to know about Rachel Faith Anderson.
Hilarious video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9fzX4W55eM
What the hell, where are da boobies? There’s no boobies in the pics. Damn.
btw did any of you instead of discussing the witch, already had a look on the BS homepage and read the announcement? :-)
Well for those concerned.
Thanks for all the kind words, And Brokenstones has returned already :D
trackers are not blogs.
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