Do not pay for BitTorrent

Written by Ernesto on September 07, 2006 

This might sound pretty obvious to the most of you, but there are still quite a lot of people who are tricked to pay for free software like uTorrent, BitTorrent Mainline, and Azureus.
Most of them are lured by misleading advertisement, and flashy banners. They end up paying $3-$30 for a completely free application. In the [...]

This might sound pretty obvious to the most of you, but there are still quite a lot of people who are tricked to pay for free software like uTorrent, BitTorrent Mainline, and Azureus.

Most of them are lured by misleading advertisement, and flashy banners. They end up paying $3-$30 for a completely free application. In the best case they receive a couple of links to BitTorrent search engines, and a BitTorrent client. Support e-mails are simply ignored.

BitTorrent Inc is currently running an ad-campaign to make people aware of these scammers. Those sites often register typo-domains like torentspy.com, supernova.org, mininova.com, bitorrent.com… etcetera. So, remember: BitTorrent is spelled with 2 T’s and 2 R’s

I’m aware of the fact that these scammers often appear on the google ads at TorrentFreak. I’ve added quite a few to my blacklist. Unfortunately my blacklist is full, and the scammers keep popping up.

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13 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)

1 Sep 07, 2006 at 12:38 by joe

Bittorrent is spelled with 2 T’s and 3 R’s

Eh? it is spelled with 2ts and 2rs…. or 3ts and 2rs!

2 Sep 07, 2006 at 12:52 by Ernesto

see how easy it is to make a typo?

3 Sep 08, 2006 at 22:07 by police boy

Scammers are criminals. They need to get shoot in the balls!

4 Apr 27, 2007 at 12:05 by bollocks

azureus is GAY scammers tooo, fucking bastards

5 May 10, 2008 at 21:38 by troy

bittorrent site owners are scammers themselves. They are evil and everthing bad that happens to them they surely deserve.

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