A user named VitaminX uploaded bitcoin miner attached to an installed for BG3. The admins removed the upload after community protests went viral, but VitaminX is for some reason not banned.

Is the site compromised? Was VitaminX splitting the profits with a rogue admin?

  • 雨 月@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    IMO, resources like the Megathread create a false sense of security here. People read something on there and think downloading anything from sites on the megathread is absolutely safe. Just like any admin of a torrent site can´t catch anything bad before it can cause any damage, the authors of the megathred also can´t be 100% aware of each and every upload on every one of the sites featured there.

    Just use your brains guys. We´re talking about piracy here after all!

  • redballooon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Was VitaminX splitting the profits with a rogue admin?

    Uh, a conspiracy theory in the baking.

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      1 year ago

      In the baking? This literally came up the second this situation arose. People jumped from “This upload has a miner” via “People got banned for reporting it” to “The proceeds from the miner go directly to the admins” within one single post. And all most people had to say was “Well, where do I go now?”.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the mod is trying to strawman the issue. The people are concerned not that the upload wasn’t caught instantly, but the fact that the uploader has not been punished.

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        1 year ago

        The responding to something different doesn’t make it a strawman.

        They didn’t reply to you here. They didn’t reply to your uploader account concern.