Hi guys,
After much discussion and thought (yeah, right), I, with the help of a few others in the IRC chat room, have decided to create a mailing list to discussion sites with illegal portable apps and help to shut these sites down.
This is intended to be a collaboration between members of this site and others to stop these sites giving our sites a bad name. Users can get confused with these sites providing applications and the users are led to believe that this is legal and gives them false information.
For any users who would like to join us, we have set up a Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/ipsdf
We have a preliminary list compiled by myself and Zach Thibeau to start us off, with quite a few sites, including one with a trademark infringement on the PortableApps.com logo and slogan:
http://groups.google.com/group/ipsdf/web/known-sites
Although I created it, this is not a personal thing of mine and I intend it to be completely independent of myself.
I welcome everyone who wishes to join in the effort and hope we can get rid of a lot of misinformation surrounding PortableApps.com.
Thanks,
Ryan.
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Sounds like a cool idea. Though i dont think Rapidshare would be easy to shut down, or even make them monitor the stuff people upload
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
They have an abuse page, so I plan to contact them via that.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I help
over the years i have gotten around quite a bit... But now I am all open source ^_^ (except for windows 
) i used to use the "illegal" stuff but i can tell you some good illegal portableapp sites ^_^ just need to remember the urls and see if they still exist XD they seem to move urls around quite a bit to avoid getting shut down i assume 
iLike Macs, iPwn, However you put it... Apple is better ^_^
"Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world..."
Hello to all those hackers out there threatening to take me site down. *waves*
Believe it or not, I don't actually give a crap if you attack my site. I'm still going to continue with IPSDF and you might just have to live with it.
Go ahead and try to make me "shit the web". Bite me, assholes.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Ryan, I am giving you a 27 sec ban for use of bad language
Ok, 27 sec ban is over, go get'em
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
[link to site w/ illegal software deleted by mod Tim] is where I get my stuff. The same programs on here, are on that site. BUT they update there stuff like GIMP way before this site updates theres! Keep doing your thing Bernat, and I will keep posting mirrors! ALready had my ip banned once! I know how to change it...
I don't know what the link is anymore because one of our Mod's did their job. (Thank you Tim. :D)
But this project is still growing. John T. Haller has a life behind this and will not be on his computer 24/7 to post his application updates. John has officially announced the Release team to hopefully get these applications out faster.
Na na na, come on!
is a thread here somewhere about the other sites posting the same software as here, but the thread mentioned that the other sites software "possibly" installed unwanted items onto your system. I'd rather wait for an update that is several weeks behind, than to install an unvetted and untested app that is a possible
hazard to my system. I know the PortableApps.com apps go through a rigorous testing process, but what about the other sites? P.S. I'm speaking of the warez sites, not the portablefreeware.com site often mentioned here, they do host alot of reputable apps.
you are wondering if warez sites have a testing process?
You should be wondering if warez sites are giving you malware! Just don't trust anything from warez sites...
Regards
~powerjuce
Please search before posting. ~Thanks
That's what I'm refering to. I don't trust them or use them either. PortableApps.com and Portablefreeware.com are the main two sites that I do trust.
After seeing this topic here: https://portableapps.com/node/18227, i have to say something.
How do you plan to take thease sites down? Hack? Contact Host? Beg and plead? Spam? Destroy their name? Yea right.
The way we do take these sites down is through the hosts. The likes of Rapidshare and Blogspot are used by most of them, and those pay attention to reports.
We've already got at least one shut down.
I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1
Really? I tried to report [name of illegal site removed by mod JTH] (or rather, went through the motions) and basically they're as unsympathetic to our point of view as they legally can be. They know that there are a series of motions one must go through and they're not going to let a reporting party take any shortcuts. On one hand it's to be commended as there is too much censorship of ideas on the Net. But on the other hand, it's clearly in violation of the law, and review of such should not be postponed as it gives the wrong message.
Anyway, Rapidshare is too public. I didn't get Ad-Aware Portable via [name of illegal site removed by mod JTH] from Rapidshare, I got it from this streamlined "drop" thing, it was like drop.io or something. No advertising, it just looked real efficient, and it's probably more anonymous than Rapidshare. I didn't even see a Report button, I don't think. But [name of illegal site removed by mod JTH] has a reader who takes their Rapidshare-distributed files and mirrors them on this "drop" site, sometimes a few times in case one goes down. So even if you do get Rapidshare to delete the files, they have mirrors. And by the time you've got them all, a new version of the app in question has come out (Ad-Aware, for one, updates every week or two, I think) and they put that up and you're back at the drawing board. Only after so many infractions might Rapidshare consider dropping banhammers, but these guys probably use different computers.
Or they might just abandon HTTP/FTP and go to P2P. At that point, your only recourse is to go fishing. Go after individuals. A modified P2P app that can trace IPs, probably like what the RIAA and MPAA use. But Microsoft and Adobe get their stuff shared on P2P almost uncontrollably; what's a free, open-source software distributor to do?
//edit: removed question answered elsewhere