Furk: Direct Download BitTorrent Proxy On Steroids
Written by enigmax on June 15, 2009Furk is not your regular torrent site. Not only does it function as a meta-search engine, but you can also download ‘torrents’ via Furk’s servers using HTTP. And it doesn’t stop there. Furk holds these downloads in a searchable database that anyone can use, turning the site into a kind of mashup between BitTorrent and Rapidshare.
In the regular BitTorrent downloading scenario we would go to a torrent site such as The Pirate Bay or Mininova, select a torrent and download it. Once that torrent starts running in our client, connections are made to other people using the same technique and the content is downloaded and shared with and via those ‘peers’.
This type of file-sharing is very effective – indeed, it’s what BitTorrent is all about. However, there are those who would prefer to stop or hinder such P2P traffic – certain ISPs take measures to identify BitTorrent protocol traffic and slow it down with a process known as ‘throttling’.
While Furk.net (update: the site had some XSS vulnerabilities but these are fixed nos according to the admin) can simply be used as a torrent meta-search engine to trawl other sites for .torrent files, to combat throttling (and privacy concerns) Furk bills part of its service as a ‘BitTorrent Proxy’. This means that instead of searching for a torrent file and downloading in the usual manner via the BitTorrent protocol, instead Furk itself joins the swarm in question and downloads the material directly to their own servers.
Once completed, users can simply download that material directly from Furk’s super-fast network using the HTTP protocol in their regular web browser. Identical to standard web traffic, HTTP generally isn’t throttled by ISPs, allowing the user to download more quickly than with throttled BitTorrent. In the less likely event that an ISP tries to slow down HTTP, downloads can be made from Furk using HTTPs.
“By default all links are HTTPs,” Furk admin told TorrentFreak. “It helps to avoid content filtering systems and increase the level of anonymity. Also for every link the user can choose an alternative link with a non-standard port.” This element of the service is only available to premium users at a few euros per month but free users can still have fun with Furk.
It’s also possible to upload your own files and videos to the service, but Furk has another much more interesting trick up its sleeve – and it’s available to non-premium users. Instead of just keeping the content on their servers for material requested by you, Furk keeps the content requested by everyone. This means that Furk has a growing database of material culled from torrent sites, but offered via direct and immediate HTTP download. A search for ‘aXXo’ shows hundreds of releases, mostly available for direct download. Think of it like Rapidshare, but with a BitTorrent backend.
“Speed for premium users is unlimited. All of the servers are on a 1Gps network and we have plenty of unused bandwidth,” Furk admin told TorrentFreak. “Free downloads are currently limited only by restricting the number of download sessions, so download managers can be used only with premium accounts.”
However, even with no premium account, some impressive speeds can be achieved. We managed decent transfers from The Netherlands, Russia and the US, before finally maxing out a 20mbit Hungarian connection. It remains to be seen if these speeds can be maintained once the masses start hitting the service – probably not, since there needs to be something to draw users to the premium service, but time will tell.
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136 Responses
1. This will be slow
2. They will get shut down SO FAST
3. Private trackers FTW
Wow this seems really neat except you have to pay :(
@Jordan
You don’t have to… You can use it for free.
Could this provide a foundation for the anonymous bittorrent protocol? If other sites were to get involved & work in partnership…
Cute, but it will get shut down, unfortunately. :/
Love the idea and the implementation but….
“instead Furk itself joins the swarm in question and downloads the material directly to their own servers.”
isn’t that like waving a red flag in front of the anti-piracy pigs…oops, i meant bull :p
“instead Furk itself joins the swarm in question and downloads the material directly to their own servers.”
I hope they dont get raided with those materials on their servers. I can see this being a very thin line between legal and not. I hope they have looked into the issue they obviously have some funding if they got lots of bandwidth.
If they have the content on their own servers the torrent defence that they only provide the service doesn’t fly any more it means that they are directly infringing copyright themselves
How do they think that is going to work? They’ll be shut down faster than you can say pirate 0.o Unless the servers are on some island in the pacific with no laws lol
@9
in that case the US will make a military intervention with 5 of the world’s most incompetent soldiers, seizing a piece of land, jailing the people behind this and well… unless the island has a private army of thousands of Chuck Norris clones, i think that they would get arrested xD
This will not last very long lets see why.
1) They are downloading copyright material, strike 1 for mpaa and riaa and any other anti piracy group
2)they are allowing people to download said material from them meaning they are distributing copyright material strike 2 for anti piracy
3) premium accounts cost money therefore its no longer file sharing but selling.
the anti piracy groups are going to have fun with this one.
why don’t the internet god’s bless all of us with fulled encrypted bitTorrent traffic. We’ve been hearing rumors for years. It’s about time some buddy (say a buncha highly intelligent computer ppl. i.e. hackers and crackers.) Write the protocol of whatever they gotta do. Times a tickin and it seems all we hear these days is bad news.
FTW \m/
it doesn’t work for me the file dialog box just hangs
Do they keep dowload logs ? Just wondering because their privacy policy is freaking me out :
“You understand and agree that Furk.net may access, preserve, and disclose your personal information and the contents of your account in order to provide the Service or if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary “…
i just tried it….SLOW AS HELL!!!!!!!!!
Constant “Invalid Referer” problem
Heh, decent I guess, but not exactly trustworthy atm…. plus dosen’t even seem all that better than sites like rapidshit.
I am not sure I understand why someone would create a BT app and base the servers in the USA. Check out their Terms of Service – this is the first item in a list several pages long. You may not use the site to. . .
“upload, download, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable”
So, if anyone anywhere in the world finds something “objectionable” I guess you’re out of luck. If a US prosecutor finds it “objectionable” you may well end up the subject of a criminal indictment – since the site keeps all your info and will actively cooperate with the cops if asked (their Terms of Service make this very clear, as well).
And of course no porn – i.e. “obscene” material. That’s kind of funny, because about half of the recent search terms they show on their homepage are porn-related. Not confidence-inspiring.
Oh, and anyone can send a “good faith” DMCA notice and their censorship-bot will delete that entry from their database, no questions asked. Nothing about them protecting customer information if somebody “demands” they turn it over – and nothing about deleting logs of activity, ever.
It’s kind of funny that people will hype a paid “service” like this when it’s intentionally placed in an utterly insecure, inappropriate legal jurisdiction. You might think a tiny bit of common sense would prevail – but I suppose it’s easier to just follow the herd.
Fausty
@Rabbit80: it is structurally impossible to create an “anonymous bittorrent protocol.” BT needs to have some way to know where to send/receive packets within a swarm – genuine anonymity would mean there is no way to join swarms.
Everyone is sitting around and waiting for someone to magically “protect” them by creating a magical protocol to hide their IP address when using BT. That protection is already available, via legitimate VPN services based in reliable jurisdictions and run by competent people. Unfortunately, nobody will magically “create” an extension to the BT protocol to accomplish this without the need for someone to actually do real work to ensure protection of swarm members.
Bidirectional anonymity without a proxy function sitting between the participants is as logically impossible as expecting someone to mail you a box of books without having any kind of mailing address.
Fausty
In practise they using torrent uploaders to make money. But indeed they download speed are good – for me it was up to 700 KB/s
Honey Pot?
19 Jun 15, 2009 at 23:53 by Fausty | torrentfreedom.net
Have you saw the project Herbivore?
It seems much faster them proxys and is anonymous.
About Furk.com I do feel that this look a lot like a honey pot LoL
imageshack also has this iirc … they have not been shut down i think
HONEY POT.
Read the God damn ToS. Furk’s a honey pot if there ever was one.
Honey pot? more like sh1t-hole. Don’t be silly this is crap
“X-Men Origins_ Wolverine DVDRIP XviD-[aXXo].avi.exe” Sounds promising..
What’s up with the stingy broke ass bastards of the p2p community. If your that fuccing penurious, than I wonder what your seed ratios look like. Fuckin losers. Fuckin Leech in the true sense.
Anyhow, this seems like a really good service, basically its a meta-search with a twist being that it acts as a cli3nt/s33db0x/direct-ddl.
Which is basically a s33db0x.
I dont see much of the difference between something like LeaseT0rrent. EXCEPT the good part is the https links with random ports (tho last time I check https uses 443 only) that sounds awesome because it may not be common where you guys are at but you are able to fuck with https, im not going go into for specific reasons. This is still awesome.
Damien has a great point about the privacy concerns. Im glad someone actually reads those.
another site that wants money? no thanks
don’t use this !! This will kill bittorrent. If everyone uses this, it will take away seeders and leechers from bittorrent and there won’t be any activity left in the P2P networks.
FURK IS DESIGNED TO DESTROY BITTORRENT. DON’T USE IT !!!
@28 Nice I lol-ed.
I’ll be trying this out soon. Sounds good. I’m still going to be using the pirate bay for my torrents though, more familiar with it.
http://antimatter.atbhost.net/?p=82
Someone needs to make a website or ThePiratebay needs to make a website that shows who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. This is a war.
In forex, we had a website called forexbastards and it would list all the shady websites that were scams. Someone needs to do the same for Bittorrent and P2P.
Obviously this site is run by secret RIAA/MPAA agents who plot to steal IP addresses from all who try their appealing service.
Internet=Scary
I say thanks but no thanks.
Has everyone freaking forgotten Miivii!?
To use a greatly overused meme of the internet here, but one I feel is very apt: IT’S A TRAP!
why don’t people run their torrent software on port 80 or 443? Then the other peers can download without being throttled by their ISP?
If (most) everyone did this, ISPs would have to throttle all web traffic.
@36 Jun 16, 2009 at 02:34 by almostthere
Not necessarily, bittorrent have a well known behaviour before it starts(the handshakes it make), it’s the fingerprint that permits sandivine to identify it and throttle it.
it is hosted in The Netherlands and has Russian operators (from what i can see from here in the UK)
it does exactly what it says on the box
i found 1140 [h33t] torrents already loaded and ready to download via http
*wawaweewa*
only strange thing is it sometimes shows torrentspy.com as a source for the torrent
only question now is how long this is gonna last? i advise you to enjoy :-D
Sounded good at first, then it started seeming more and more like a honeypot.
“Firefox has blocked 74854 pop-ups from Furk.net” – Right.
Site is vulnerable like shit.
XSS Scripting everywhere, and trys to open 12000-24000 Popups(no-shit!)
:/
Im still loading like a beserk while it lasts…
holy shit 27k pop-ups blocked
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6687/furk1.jpg
Yeah this thing is too good to be true. Can’t download anything on it and every single page tries to launch a script which just ends up crashing firefox (probably a slew of popups like Moocow mentioned). I’d steer clear of it to be honest.
@ 44
Yeah its the same thing. It tries to run a script on every page which ends up crashing firefox. Firefox also said it blocked 2700 pop-ups from the website.
Yeah this site is crap. I found that blocking “ad.xtendmedia.com” stops the popups but this has other nasties to throw at you including Trojan horses and also tries to send you erroneous files. This really shouldn’t be considered news at all.
Well its still possible to load for me, just takes about 10-20 secs to open a page xD
And then all those Popups :/
Try imagine a IE 6 User going there^^
xD
DO NOT GO TO THIS SITE! IT HIJACKS YOUR BROWSER!
First time I went there, Firefox blocked 29000 (yes, ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND!) pop ups. Thought it was a fluke or I typed the URL wrong. Clicked the link on TF once I restarted Firefox and yet again, pop ups galore and porn ads. When I tried to close the tab, it hijacked my Firefox and opened countless tabs and tried opening Windows Mail. Countless pops on my desktop, and I had to end the process via task manager.
DANGER
here is the payload:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5729/furk3.jpg
Under Linux its still fine :)
that thing is destroyed. I’d advise to stay away
The CONCEPT is fine legally, since the site is simply caching the files it downloads automatically. It would easily fall under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA and similar laws.
This particular site however…
Holy Crap. The Virus, They Hurt.
eww eww eww….
that wasnt friendly.
My linux machine just took a battering of adverts, my PC didn’t as its running no-java addon and adblock plus.
but eww….. eww.. and eww.. mind the jew.wmv or whatever it was. Time to virus scan main machine.
I don’t know, their TOS kinda smells like a honeypot…
hmm safari 4 security hole? gnaa.us attack when visiting furk on safari on os x? anyone else? jokes opened skype ichat thunderbird mail everything! see how this goes maybe i’m just malwared up i’ll have to look through things:/
Either this is a prank, or they got hacked…
popups : http://www3.pic-upload.de/16.06.09/khgsoj.jpg
The site also tries to open a newsgroups:
http://www3.pic-upload.de/16.06.09/tmakze.jpg
http://www3.pic-upload.de/16.06.09/d6usjv.jpg
I think the reviewer of this s*** site furk.net should send out an apology to lurk so many people to that terrible site: firfox hangs, 27000 pop-ups and trojans trying toload everywhere. This morning the site was slow now this evening it is a DISASTER. Do your self a favor STAY AWAY. I am mad i trusted the article. what a scam.
i did 545k of it very fast for me
when grabbing the new robin hood episode
for a test
i just visited furk.net and got hit with a bunch of virus’ hopefully kaspersky cought em…. and a bunch of NASTY ass pictures of dead babies, shit eaters, and a guys cock covered in SHIT showed up
SINCE WHEN DOES TORRENT FREAK SEND US TO VIRUS RIDDEN SCAM SITES???? the MPAA NEVER DID THAT TO ME….. im just sayin…..
i used firefox with addblock plus
eset nod32 and Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
no popups or virus warnings for me
After cancelling the download of jew.wmv about 10 times or so, and watching what kind of pictures it was throwing up (certainly NSFW — I wouldn’t even call it safe for porn!), that’s going to be a pass.
Have they been hacked or what? That site is all jacked up.
This article should be taken down as the site is LOADED WITH VIRUSES.
@ 56 Jun 16, 2009 at 04:18 by Anonymous
Does the same thing under Firefox, it’s not a security hole for Safari4. Generic javascript exploit.
Had a few different apps run (iterm, osxnews)
But yea, I’m guessing their webpage had some pretty weak code and someone was nice enough to hijack it.
this site destroys the meaning of bit torrent, sharing. Since they download the torrents without caring for ratios, it just takes away the entire point of sharing based on torrents. Sounds just like greed… any connections? greedy labels? Furthermore, its not that convincing.. and for most users by the way the lawyers advice everyone to put these disclaimers. The privacy notices are already made (pre-made) and you have to acquire the copyright for being able to display them on your site. A lot of these notices say the exact same thing. Go figure.
Okay first of all, this site is bullshit. Why?
1. Their ToS is flawed beyond belief, I’ve found multiple grammar/spelling errors. look at this:
“You agree to not use the Furk.net Services to:
#3. upload, downloaed, transmit or otherwise—”
DOWNLOAED? what’s that?
Second, look at their e-mail:
the TOS to us at abuse@.
nice period, no domain yet or what?
Same thing goes for their “Contacts”
None of them exist.
Also, their front page advertisement just tried to put a trojan in my computer, and crashed my firefox.. Firefox caught it ofcourse, but still, wtf is that kind of assault, is it because I was trying to contact them??
And also, I’ve searched a few movies, and some fake versions come up, like what I did first was “Monsters vs aliens”, and a whole bunch of DVDRips by aXXo and Diamond came up, and if you click the “This torrent was found on” underneath, none of those sites actually have it.. :S
I call BS.
~Gloom
Well, Furk’s homepage is certainly furked… Although, I’ve been able to make it much more tolerable by using NoScript and AdBlock Plus plugins for Firefox to block nimp.org which seems to be loading all the crap. NoScript blocks the popups, but there’s still some static, run-of-the-mill, shock images that load that AdBlock can filter out.
hahaahahaa, is this a joke? A site as reputable as torrentfreak couldn’t have posted this garbage could they? The thought of a site such as this is indeed blatantly illegal and could never exist. Either way, if this was a joke, add me to the list of people who got pwned.
Hopefully I my antivirus caught all the malware…
this site is meant to be greed for its own agenda and a lot of gay pictures . thats suckx ass.
1) It is a scam.
Or…
2) The site is getting the shit kicked out of it due to XSS attacks.
LOL
wow Omg ..
Okay I’m back, and I dunno about you guys, but I just took down their homepage,
ALSO, I saved you all from the virus.
I have honestly never hacked anything before until now, and you all can too;
Check this out.. if you inspect their front page, you’ll notice that in the “recent” searches, is everything people typed in..
The VIRUS was someone who has actually TYPED IN
That’s why it brings that box up.
NOW, what I just did, is change the src to google.com, now when the site opens up, it crashes to a 404 not found to google.com,
(I was just testing, but if anyone can actually access the site, or can in the future, feel free to copy pasta that, and enter any site of your choosing.) like I said, this site is bogus.
~Gloom
its a furking RIAA/MPAA trap.
wow obviously torrentfreak is smarter.. you type in “iframe src=google.com width=1000px height=1000px /”
but instead of ” you use to close.
its being attacked by 4chan
lol i read Fuck direct download…
I tried a search just now, and the result was a goatse!!!
Haven’t seen that in years!
Lol. damn, the admin fixed it :(
Our Raid is over /b/tards.
Until next time.
everything just leads to goatse however it did work earlier
this story is gonna run and run :-D
Can we trust torrentfreak?
Are you f***ing kidding me? How is this article/recommend even still up, enigmax?
Oh…
I’m really sorry about the XSS hack. It has been fixed as soon as we got first msg about this.
The site is in beta stage (as it says on the logo) and is still in continuous development process.
The problem was that we’ve turned off some filtering in order to debug and just forgot to turn it back in time.
Everything is fixed now. The site is safe. No any personal data has been leaked as we keep it hashed/encrypted.
I’m really sorry about this and do apologize to everyone for whom this cause any problems.
cool story bro :)
limited bandwidth – sucks service (
Now i know that i can download over 20GB files with Firefox 3.0.11
HA!
This is uselessly pathetic. Just sign up at warez-bb.org ; everything that you can find on torrents is uploaded to multiple filehosts within an hour after releases. Get yourself a premium rapidshare account, 100% safe, and up to 16 Mbits/s up/down speed. No need to worry about throttling or anybody spying on you.
strange service, downloading with 900kb ..
page’s load fine, no pop-up’s or anything completely clean for me (firefox 3.0.11)and this place maxed my connection!
doesnt seem safe with all that dmca crap..
no more free 7-day trial?
This is similar to btaccel.com that I have been using. I think btaccel is much better though from a usability perspective.
Im reading what the limits are when your using free service and i dont understand this “Inactive files will be deleted after 1 month” and if you pay it will never be deleted??? What does that mean?
They will somehow delete files from your computer when your not using them for over a month or what?
been maxing out my connection and using their seedbox. I would say that their service is great. I am going to download about 120 files so far and so far, I have been at max speed for 2 dvd’s with no limits. Hope this stays around
you can download here as fast as your connection allows and upload the same
the file deletion thing goes for if you are a member and download something using their seedbox, they will www host it for an unlimited amount of time if you are a paying member, but if you are a free member, 1 month after they download it and host it for you, they will delete the file.
The service is too good to be true, who is funding it?
Interesting. But I will be sitting back and watching this one for a while, see how it pans out.
It looks like an OK service. I wouldn’t download anything illegal or copyrighted music/moves/etc. via it though, just in case. I might use it to seed my band’s material, I can’t have a PC seeding 24/7.
On second thoughts, after visiting the site, I think I’ll find another seedbox 0_0
working great now maxed out my connection I will use it along with btaccel.com
over 200 kb/sec here. just started it.. not too bad. not great, but not bad
amazing how many files are avalable
for instant downloading
516 KB incoming right now
I had about a 54 second wait time
to download the file 22 minutes
to download 641 MB
also you have the comments from the piratebay on the file displayed all 89 of them .
Im liking it. I was going to add a second line (dryloop) to my DSL connection but using this and Btaccel I dont need to
I just http downloaded episode 6, season 3 or Eureka through their service to check it out (at my school though, I’m going to be weary about using this at my home). Speeds were decent, 350 megs took about 30 minutes.
There was nothing wrong to the site when i went to it. Maybe a slight hacking by someone but thatr shows it was weak and poorly protected..maybe they should move to FreeBSD webservers and shit, i hear they have great uptime and security.
Anyhow, service is working as advertised, tho I dont like how easily they can be comprosmised and how easily they are willing to give up info based on there privacy policy.
Other than that its not too bad.
I take back what I said. The nastiness evidently came from stupid people posting malicious scripts using the blatant XSS vulnerability on that site. Glad it’s been fixed before it got out of hand and/or ruined the reputation of the site permanently.
lol at the search swarm
Furk has been up for years. Stop saying it will be shut down…fags
Look at Iinet from Australia that is being forced to hand over the data about people, is like this site it may not be intentional but if the law come knocking on your door you have to answer it, and until the rights of the people are protected this is a no, no for anyone who download “illegal” stuff.
On the other hand if you are like me and don’t use “pirated” software, music or movies and instead look for alternatives this could be a gold mine if it’s not shutdown. You see the industry can’t do nothing to you if you don’t use their precious “products”.
I got sick and tired off this people they can have what is theirs just don’t ask me to buy it because I’m not doing it anymore, I’m not on the treadmill of upgrades anymore, or pay per view and when they are bankrupt they can take a picture of the smirk on my face I’m not feeling sorry for no one that loose their jobs because of this industry.
The “free” site is nothing more than a scam to get you to pay for an account. There are so many limitations on it that it can’t effectively be used. Files are limited to 200MB or less, you can’t resume broken transfers and generally, it has all the same limitations as Rapidshare does for free users. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that “their servers” are actually Rapidshare accounts.
I tried to cancel my account, but the stupid Javascript tricks they use to make a fancy “Are you sure” popup don’t work for me.
If Furk is reading this, please delete the account “Rekrul”. I don’t intend to ever use your site.
Erm, where is this hosted?
How long before the door is knocked down and we see “TPB trial re-loaded”
Again compliments Ernesto on a great story!
Maybe you could all benefit from this greasemonkey script i created to skip the wait time.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/51660
Aaron, i cant take the chance that, that may be a cookie stealing script as well embedded.
their java script code is shit.
just type javascript:startDownload(1) on the address bar and click Free Download quickly
it works on safari 4
lol @Dave2345235 are you familiar with userscripts or greasemonkey?
look at the source code yourself on my script. 3 lines, the first makes the button actually download, the second changes the text on the button to say “Free download” and the third stops furk.net script changing the button text back to a countdown.
or you can type “javascript:startDownload();” into the browser as another post says.
loads of crap, lets move on
I just tried the site and it works fine and what most people say is wrong isn’t true.
1. I don’t get popups (or blocked popups in my case)
2. They don’t limit the size of transfers.
3. It pretty much does what it says.
The problems are that it doesn’t really improve upon bittorrent downlods for free users since after the first 25MB it reduces speed to 50KB/s.
It also wasn’t very good for me before that either. (200KB/s) I normally get between 250 – 900KB/s.
I won’t use this service because of that but it is far better then Rapidshare since you don’t have to split your downloads into parts.
I only download from sites I trust, and I saw so many fake files when I did one simple search. Thanks but no thanks.
There isn’t anything illegal about this because what they do is transparent.
Consider the following, you combine a courier service with public storage. The courier is sent to pick up a box from outside a supermarket, and place it into storage. The courier isn’t aware of the boxes content, it could be bananas or otherwise. Likewise it could be a legal copy of an obscure Linux Distro that may ordinarily reside on a slow connection, but is now hosted more conveniently.
They are just a service provider.
@guenthar: There’s an update that says that there was a XSS exploit(s) on the site. I just tried it again, and it’s much more well behaved. No more 10 downloads of jews.wmv (which I’m sure was a payload), no more pictures of extremely bad taste (literally!) porn.
Re: #118, guenthar;
” I just tried the site and it works fine and what most people say is wrong isn’t true.
1. I don’t get popups (or blocked popups in my case)
2. They don’t limit the size of transfers.”
Then why did it tell me that the max size of my allowed files was 200MB and that I had 200MB disk space available? I tried to add a 700MB torrent and it wouldn’t let me.
@120
Ever heard of something called possession of stolen goods?
I clicked ‘terms of service’ (https://www.furk.net/terms), and under #15 (Privacy Policy), it says: “For more information, see the full Furk.net Privacy Policy and clicking on “Privacy Policy”.”
I can’t find this link anywhere.
I even tried google search: “site:www.furk.net privacy policy” 1 result, same page.
And….bad grammar? Confusing at least. wtf
Then they keep referring to the Privacy Policy:
“you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the applicable privacy policy) of certain information described in the privacy policy, including the transfer of this information to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by Furk.net and its affiliates.”
“Personal information collected by Furk.net may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Furk.net or its agents maintain facilities. By using the Service, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.”
Absolute shit.
You guys take terms too seriously.
It just a copy-paste from some other site.
I think the author of this piece, and Ernesto, have to answer some questions about their so-called journalism and this site …
e.g.
1. Who the furk is Ernesto/Enigmax?
2. How is (s)he qualified to write seriously on the subject of BT/sharing and its legalities?
3. What’s the budget, who pays for this site and how?
4. What is Ernesto/Enigmax’s cut from this operation?
@ #53
No, it’s not fine. The whole concept is bad. Why would you want to draw traffic away from P2P networks. They barely have enough seeders as it is. Suppose lots of leechers and seeders drop thepiratebay for this Furk thing, then Furk shuts down, now what? we lose potentially millions of files which then have to be re-seeded and uploaded. This idea is bad regardless of whether it’s a honey pot (which it is).
@ #126
I agree, what the fuck is going on. Why would torrentfreak advertise a honey pot? Unless…..
Oh man…
The furk.net has been up for years. The torrent feature has been added in later 2006.
It easy can be proven by simple search of a few years old torrent where you can see comments from all the torrent sites dated back in 2006 or so including dead torrentspy.
Beside furk.net there are several similar projects around.
The only difference Furk.net has the search feature.
As for English misspelling. Well no one of us is a native speaker and we didn’t bothered yet to find a proofreader. Will be fixed soon.
” For more information, see the full Furk.net Privacy Policy and clicking on “Privacy Policy” ”
Where is it? Click where?
Check out http://www.entertane.com for a new meta-search engine – faster, simpler – access to all your favorite torrent searches
Starting to lose faith in this site if all we hear is bad news, and links to sites like this. Makes me wonder who’s side TF is really on.
If you use the pay-by-call method for premium (using a non-traceable line) or an anon paypal account (ie. funded by prepaid visa), and then connect via offshore VPN, you’re pretty safe even if it IS a honeypot. Which, tbh, I’m skeptical about.
Two further points:
a) If leechers move to furk, attracted by the system and potentially faster download speeds for poorly-seeded torrents, this will help the health of existing torrents due to swarm bandwidth not being wasted on those who give nothing back.
b) Furk should include the original .torrent file in their RAR download, enabling those who wish to support swarms to do so.
118 the limit is on the seedbox that you have when a file is not available already on their servers/ This means that if you would like to download a file that is not already archived by them, you will have to purchase a paid account. It doesn’t mean that if they already have a file archived, you are limited. You can dl files over 200 mb if it is on their server already.
Funny, back in the 90s this shit was simply called web-warez.
Direct hosting of copyrighted material, accessible for everyone = illegal.
The end.
torrentfreedom, stfu
Your service sucks. Your customer service is no where to be seen. And your service (for pay) is horribly fucking slow.
Ok. I gave this a try.
First off 95% of stuff that i searched is not “yet” available.
Second. The stuff that is available does not have good speed. My connection is 4MB. In firs minute or so i get full download speed 450KB/s. After that minute it goes to 100KB/s at best. Sometimes is 120KB/s but thats rare. Thats pretty much the speed i get from torrents so i see no need to replace my free torrent service. Plus download cant be paused or resumed. No thanks.
ONE WORD “SUCKSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!”
Spare me with this Furk.net …
No Download Manager Support big suck.
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