RLSLOG Down Again After Copyright Complaint

Ernesto
June 7, 2010
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For the second time in two months, the world’s most popular release news site RLSLOG has been kicked out by its webhost due to a copyright complaint. The site, which has never hosted any copyrighted material on its servers, is currently looking for a new home where it hopes for a longer stay.

Update: August 2010, RLSLOG Down, But Not Out.

rlslog RLSLOG has grown out to be the authority when it comes to news about, and links to, scene releases. Millions of readers visit the site every month, looking for the latest releases that are posted daily by the site’s editors.

After being pulled offline by a complaint from Universal Music in April, the site moved to a new host in The Netherlands. Initially it seemed that this move had ended the trouble but it turned out to be just a temporary reprieve.

“Shut down again, although we never hosted any files or copyrighted data on our server. Our site is strictly informative,” a message just posted at the site’s home page reads.

TorrentFreak spoke with RLSLOG founder Martin who told us that he’s working on getting the site back online as soon as possible, the first step being the discovery of a suitable hosting provider. After being thrown out by a German and Dutch host, he will now try his luck elsewhere.

The current hosting company refused to forward the actual complaint to RLSLOG, so it is unknown who is behind the request. Martin was told by the webhost that the “German government” and a local anti-piracy organization are responsible, but he has been unable to verify these claims.

RLSLOG has been targeted by rights holders several times over the last year. Previously, Web Sheriff sent a complaint to RLSLOG’s former host who then took the site offline and a few weeks ago Universal Music also managed to take the site offline.

RLSLOG, however, sees no wrong in what it does as the site does not host any copyrighted files on its servers. Although the site appears to operate in a gray area when it comes to copyright, a website doesn’t have to store any copyrighted files in order to be seen as a copyright infringement facilitator by the courts.

The court cases against isoHunt, Mininova and The Pirate Bay have shown that linking to files can be enough to be found guilty of, or liable for, infringements. As we’ve said before, RLSLOG might actually have an even worse case since the ‘links’ are selected and published by the site’s editors.

Thus far RLSLOG’s problems are only limited to finding a host that would allow the site to operate despite any complaints that might roll in. If everything goes well, the site should be back online in a matter of days.

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Anonymous

Rule 1 oF copyrIghted content: Do not speak about copyRighted content.
Rule 2 of copyrighted content: Do NOT Speak about copyrighted conTent.
http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

“A website doesn’t have to store any copyrighted files in order to be seen as a copyright infringement facilitator by the courts.”

MAFIAA money… getting results.
24235426

Damn it :( I hope its back online soon, visit often.
Lyco

Come back soon RLSLOG..Anyone recommend any reliable updating release sites in the meantime?
Wrong

This is utterly wrong.

Shouldn’t these numbskull go after those that actually commit copyright infringement.

This is utter nonsense.

These are man made law made by the rich for the benefit of the… RICH! with the poor peoples money.

This is getting ridiculous. We need to abolish the copyright laws. Not for the people and definitely not by the people.
http://www.rlslog.net/

Shut down again, although we never hosted any files or copyrighted data on our server. Our site is strictly informative.

Looking for new safe host. Comments, help, suggestions? rlslog at gmail.com

Check our forums in the meantime: rlstalk.net.
http://www.rlslog.net/

by Lyco

Come back soon RLSLOG..Anyone recommend any reliable updating release sites in the meantime?

Try visiting their forum http://www.rlstalk.net/ before they shut that down too…
cdcase

spain!!!!!!!!!!!!
duane

seychelles!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tony

Cyberbunker, anyone?
tightasa

@5 This may come as a complete surprise.The law was never intended to bring about some sort of equality or justice.Its sole purpose was always to protect the rights of the wealthy from any and all claims by the poor.And since the wealthy pay no……..or very little tax…It is left to the poor……..who have no choice,to sustain the laws which are then used against them…..It is referred to in legal circles as…….”The double shaft”If you don`t believe this……Then please advise me of which newspaper I can buy,to keep abreast of what is happening in the world of file sharing!!!!!
hello

Hmmm, Yeah, who cares? Recently, I found an age-gap site called __Agegaplove.c“om__ and I met my lover here. He is 9 yeard older than me. It’s a nice place- for Younger Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Age gap is- not problem there. You may check out or tell your friends.
liquidmonkey

this is really stupid!
tightasa

This thing is bigger than watergate………And nothing…..”Nothing on tv or in the newspaper!!!!!!!!!!
tightasa

Mod Get 11 off!!!!!!!!!!!
BTL

It’s a successful marketing venue with poor editing that profited off of pirated content, nothing more.
LemonWire

Great! Shut em all down!
down to nwo

Watch The Money Masters How the International Bankers Gained Control Over America
Reggit

Is it me, or is this copyright war, actually turning into a war on free speech and freedom of expression? If i heard about a website thats illegal, and without ever visiting it or using it in anyway, would it be illegal for me to simply talk about it with my friends???

“Shut him up! I’ve got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real…. It’s just a ride”
LMAO

Why are you defending this mofo Martin and his warez blog? He’s been profiting off of pirated illegal content for years. This had to end long time ago.
Anonymous

It does seem like these copyright law enforcers are just flailing about now, trying to take down anything with the slightest association with file sharing. TorrentFreak should watch out, you have torrent in the name, so that means you MUST be sharing files illegally.
anon2

unless there is an amalgation of sites to fight this, it is going to get worse. sites that try to fight individually are never going to win because of the pressure exerted on them, their host or their ISP and the amount of money that the entertainment industry turns into muscle. sites that are sticking their heads in the sand, thinking that they will not be targeted are living in ‘cloud cuckoo land’. it is simply a matter of time.
Agafaba

@1

I see what you did there, nice first…
KIM JONG IL

I, KIM JONG IL, the GLORIOUS LEADER of NORTH KOREA offer this website much hosting in THE GLORIOUS PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.
Down with Western Imperialist!
I need my Ice Road Truckers Season4 Episode1 dammit WESTERN IMPERIALISTS
-Lee

Switch to OneDDL.Com
lmfao

“A website doesn’t have to store any copyrighted files in order to be seen as a copyright infringement facilitator by the courts.”

mpaa, riaa & websheriff should be taken down now.
Senor Ding Dong

Use Scenesource!
I’m not V

for tv: http://v-state.net/
Anonymous123

@ 19 LMAO

Please give me a warez site that doesn’t make profit? Piratebay, mininova, all make profit yet you don’t hear people complain about them!
Vodka Tonic

In Soviet Russia, content copyrights you!
Chris

Try http://tv-dump.org as alternative if you’re into tv shows.
Joe

great news! rlslog is one of the worst sites on the net for news… retarded ads everywhere and it’s slow as shit in terms of page loading… when are people going to realize that wordpress (no matter what your server spec’s are) is not designed for 10′s of thousands of posts?!? Martin (rlslog owner) is obviously raking in at least 6 figures a year, wish he would put even 5% towards a custom developed site :P
Anonymous

prescene.com & vcdq.com
Anonymous

Obviously the entertainment parasites are up to destroy internet itself.

On Internet basically everything is linked to everything else so as you declare “copyright Infringement” a simple link to copyrighted materials then the entire internet starting with the search engine become illegal. The side effect of this though is that this type of resonating totally invalidate copyright.

It is time to look for an alternative without ISP and leave internet to the parasites.

There is one: C2C WIFI network (from user computer to user computer via Wifi.) This type of software has the potential to really replace internet.

With this type of software you can host your webpage on your own laptop and nobody know where your site is actually hosted nor by whom.
Phoenix

human rights !!!
Anonymous

Piratebay, mininova, all make profit yet you don’t hear people complain about them!

Well I don’t know about mininova but the Pirate was and is non-profit.

They don’t make any profit period. That was another lie spread by the entertainment of parasites.

These peace of shit specialized in lies and BS long time ago to replace talent they did not know how to find.
Joe

“RLSLOG, however, sees no wrong in what it does as the site does not host any copyrighted files on its servers.” – the funny thing is the site profits hardcore off of scene releases off not only ads but the stupid hotfile/rapishare/whatever links that EDITORS post for samples earn the editors massive points/cashback so seeing no harm in what they are doing is ridiculous. I like to download free shit, but what I don’t like is seeing others profit off the scene which does it all free which is why rlslog and ad-ridden related sites are hated by the scene.
Mr X

http://www.rlspress.com/

is great 2 find latest releases
AnAn

Spammers in this site seem to be escalating… time for some IP bans, no?
rlsman

pll
The United Hackers Association

riaa and mpaa are gong to buy up canadian telcoms now

cbc.ca/news
goto technology
look at how many twits se it as a good thing

we have the highest prices in world
ONLY thing thats gonna happen is Americans like riaa comcast and at&t will buy out everyone

then RAISE price , add caps and screw us all even worse

WHO needs a copyright bill when you can via gay trms just cut people off blacklist em and be done with it

was nice 25 years on the net
im leaving by all
last month on net for me
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Aman

Hey,Ernesto You should now put a spam filter on comments. About half of them are useless OR advertiesments.

@1 Agreed
@2 At-least they have some point to defend themselves
@16 Impossible
theredhead

http://www.azmovie.net/

Is a good release site
me

Viva Espana!
Rlsbyte.net

Check this nice site; http://www.rlsbyte.net

Same releases as rlslog!
qqq

There i a simple solution – stop posting links to the movies in the article section as well as policy the comments. Just leave the articles, and you should be fine. This site was great, and a source of knowledge form mes – especially in the terms of TS/CAMs – I could trust their opinions about the quality of a release. Hope they will come back. Links in the comments were almost always useless, as they were taken very fast down. Still, having the name of a release you search for – it was really easy to find an alternative.
Cock Dropper

I love it when a release site goes down, I always become aware of more scene sites of which I would have been none the wiser. I thank you MPAA as you just force new technologies to keep one step ahead and dare I say it, eventually become 100% anonymous? Where will be your power to shut down then? I understand you have to protect products, but doing this is doing the complete opposite and all these copy right laws have become a joke.
Boom baby!

#10 tightasa: “And since the wealthy pay no……..or very little tax”

That really isn’t the case. In the UK, the people with the top 1 per cent of incomes pay 24% of all income tax paid.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8417205.stm
BTL

@49 Jun 07, 2010 at 21:34 by Boom baby!

Don’t you see that that graphic is misleading?
Suppose you have 1 person that earns 100000€ a year. There also 99 other people who earn 500€ a year each.

The 99 people with the low income pay 200€ tax each.
The rich person on the other hand pays, let’s say much more – as much as 10000€ per year!

Now, let’s look at the numbers:
Total taxes are 29800€.
34% of that is paid by the top 1 percent of earners.
The remaining 99% of people only contribute 66% of the taxes. Shame on them – or not?

It’s not that simple. If you do not take into account what people actually earn, you will not get a clear picture.
The top 1 percent in my example pays only 10% of his income as taxes.
All low-income people on the other hand hand 40% over to the state.

I believe it is not much different at all in the example you posted a link to.
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Me

Maybe the Pirate-party should host them.
neostyles

They will have similar luck in other places. The amount of countries willing to allow mass infringement to flourish is at an all time low level. The world is finally uniting under the banner of copyright.
Ninja

Freakin IDIOTS.

I AM UTTERLY PISSED OFF AT THIS FREAKIN ANNOYING REGION DRM THING FROM XBOX360. THAT’s WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING LEGAL, DRM CRAP PREVENTING YOU FROM PLAYING A LEGALLY PURCHASED GAME BECAUSE IT’S NOT FROM YOUR REGION.

I’m unlocking my console and I’m downloading the proper region. FUCK YOU MICROSOFT. Game developers should thank M$ for yet another file sharer downloading supposedly illegal copies. In fact they are also at fault since they have the option to make it region free.

[/rant]

Ahem. Copyright is as it is today is an idiocy. Full stop. This article is proof of that. And my rant probably is too.
Yarrr Matey!!

@MAFIAA…

This is OUR Internet, you evidently don’t understand, so let me explain what is going to happen and why your efforts are being laughed at by veteran filesharers:

If need be, we simply return to peer-supported decentralized systems for the purpose of indexing and tracking (we already do this to some extent to cover the loss of trackers but this won’t be fully utilised until the last couple of open trackers are closed!)

We can build networks that have authentication (send heavily encrypted 4k datablock at end of an official update from a given channel, then send decryption key for this block at start of the next authentic communication.

Our issue with this in the past has been the lack of trust due to lack of authentication and peer-review (comments, community helping each other avoid viri/malware/etc.), something that RLSLOG helped with, but this can be decentralized too using the above channel authentication method.

When it becomes truly impossible to operate web sites that facilitate free information exchange, a network similar to Freenet (but purely for p2p filesharing purposes) will become the new big indexing site and tracker… and this time no litigation or threats against individuals will take it down.

As bandwidth and CPU power continue to increase and become more affordable, we will use networks that allow users to relay transfers (decrypting and re-encrypting with a different seed on each relay so as to obfuscate data entry and exit points in the relay chain and with packets relayable a variable number of times – so that even if you’re first in the relay-chain you don’t know whether you’re connected to a hosting node or a mere “service provider” node that is relaying data)

You see MAFIAA, we already have prototypes built, we already have the knowledge to defeat you… and on the Internet, knowledge is power.

The only thing holding us back is critical mass.

As the last few centralized indexing sites, release news site and trackers are closed due to your influences (and bribery) over law-makers and politicians to oppress the Internet, a behemoth of a darknet will rise to be the new champion of free information exchange.

It is inevitable.

We can control more nodes on the Internet than you can afford to control.

We are collectively more intelligent and intuitive than the smartest people you can afford to hire.

We are faster to adapt than you and can spread news to more people than you in a shorter amount of time.

You may win this battle, but we have already won the war.
Anonymous

“The amount of countries willing to allow mass infringement to flourish is at an all time low level.”

You are wrong. There is plenty of place allowing what you call “mass infringement” and what I call legitimate use of computers.

Too bad actually, it would have been a great business opportunity.
Anonymous

RLSLOG is going to relocate into a place inaccessible by the coporations of parasites.

hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe!
Diogo

They are moving the server to Czech Republic.

General information on 93.185.104.29:

IPv4 address: 93.185.104.29
IPv6 address: ::ffff:5db9:681d
Host name: rlslog.net
Reverse DNS: www19.pipni.cz
Country: CZECH REPUBLIC
City: Praha
Karl

Found this page in another topic here about rlslog and it’s great.

http://tv-dump.org/

I’m amazed. Wish I found it sooner and wouldn’t have wasted hours digging through fake comments in ad plastered websites like rlslog.
Sam

Damn, this was one of my favorite websites that I used to check every day :( I hope they will be back soon.

By the way, I discovered this website today: http://www.hotne.ws
Do you know it, seems like safe place?
noCS

@Ninja
Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, they all do it.
And it’s not about piracy it’s about making money (by doing very very little work) by trying to force you to buy a console for the region. I feel sorry for Europe and Australia as they seem to be the last ones to get the releases most of the time.
lol..

the MPAA and RIAA are so screwed at the end of the year.. I guess they wont even know what hit them.. Them and all of the record and movie houses might want to start thinking about serious career changes.. Im just saying.. ITS ABOUT TO GET REAL… /b/
Binary Bandit

@neostyles: “The world is finally uniting under the banner of copyright.”
Hmm..lately copyright=censorship.
Rlslog online plz

Pffft im from netherlands and i think that the Dutch goverment should F off XD
Damn

Just put it back up and don’t link to any files, only information about scene releases.

And put up a disclaimer saying “If anyone finds something in the comments section objectionable, click here to report abuse, we will respond within 24 hours”, and then delete comments once a day.
TheOne

http://www.scnsrc.net/

founded by some early editors of rlslog who where fed up with the money driven Martin and left.
Anon

Alot of ye seems to think that ad space on a website amounts to alot, but how much trafic is from the same ip or behind a proxy, they only count 1 ip per day to pay the site for ad’s
Proud Pirate

just go straight to a pre db

http://www.dup3.me
UseAdBlockFFS

Yeah it’s ok for people to bitch about sites bearing ads, do any of these people have any idea how much hosting a site with millions of visits costs?

Without the ads the costs of hosting the site would have to be paid out of the site owners pocket.

I run a small site with no ads at all & it’s not the cheapest hobby a person could have.

Plus adding content etc to a site takes time & effort so people can’t really whine about a few ads. Well they can & do, but try thinking about what you say before you say it or at least have a bit of experience in the field.

It’s not like ads aren’t easily blocked anyway so i don’t know what all the fuss is about.
SceneSite.org

Almost everything is on http://scenesite.org :)
K3V

Lastest Scene Releases …
http://www.scenefeeds.info/
Ninja

@ 59 Jun 08, 2010 at 08:29 by noCS

Yea. I was trying to keep my console original and stuff but after this one my rage won over my will to be a good boy. In fact, this whole DRM stuff is what is preventing me from buying a PS3 and/or going into blu-ray. It’s freaking annoying.

Sony even removed that Other OS feature from PS3 fearing PIRACY. For crying out loud, my PS2 is MODDED and I’ve already bought MANY original titles after trying the illegal copy first. Why do they keep bothering with DRM? It WILL ALWAYS be overrided and the ones really affected (negatively) by DRM are the ppl that stay legal and have no real tech abilities. Can’t they see this simple and logical fact?

Better quality with annoying DRM and even higher prices? Thanks but no thanks. Blu-ray and PS3 can wait =)
Anonymous

apparently the best thing to do is move to spain :D
dan

stupid monopolies, trying to get money from the creations humanity owns.
l am better than wise

rlslog gave me me the skynet virus
but l dont care because l am wise.
rune

they should, in the light of previous an recent events try a spanish one.
K3V

There Back …

Just a quick post, we are back online on a new host after 2 or 3 days of downtime. It’s been just something over 1 month since similar situation occured, and although our previous host assured us there will be no problems, we got shut down anyway. I would like to say thanks to everyone who emailed me with help and recommendations about hosting offers, I can say we have a huge list of possible solutions in case we go down now. The main problem is that we need fairly powerful, above-standard server and it simply takes some time to get such a server online. Anyway, massive thanks to Ryan and Jason from 2c7, they took a great care of us and we are back online thanks to them!
Frank

to all the fagots jealous cause he made profits off his site. Go suk some donkey balls. Who gives a rats ass if he makes a profit or not off his site. It don’t affect you, you still go and check for bootleg releases.Bunch of hypocrites. Not easy or cheap to run a website with this much traffic. Bunch of haters
hi

You all are idiots,
Its back up and running now.

BTW: Check: http://www.WarezSFX.com for latest Games, TV Releases :)
Hotnews

Found another good website, they have only quality torrents: http://www.hotne.ws

I use both websites everyday
dingdong63632

Joinhttp://www.clotheshops.usyou will find everything you wish here.
mge

“RLSLOG has grown out to be the authority when it comes to news about, and links to, scene releases. Millions of readers visit the site every month, looking for the latest releases that are posted daily by the site’s editors.”
For whores who hang around public, yeah… For the rest of us there is pre-channels and dupeDBs.

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