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Underground Engines

A quick and dirty list of the underground "security" engines out there.


A word of warning: DO NOT STEAL!

Now don't understand me wrongly: Of course most companies nowadays agree that using torrents and P2P to fetch software, music and whatsnot is good.
However, due to pressure from users who want the many benefits that copy protection and copyright enforcing provide, they have reluctantly added the first to their products and now endorse, obtorto collo, any ludicrous legislative initiative intended to protect the most absurd patents and drive out of legality anyone that does not pay them royalties without questions asked.

So you may search for targets through torrents and P2P networks, but once you find them, do not download them unless you are sure that it is legit to do it. Please always respect whatever funny legislation the political servants of the commercial powers that be have decided to introduce. Check the legislation and always respect the law.

So how does one know if what he finds is patented or not? In other words, how does one know if what he finds can be downloaded legally?

This is a very difficult question to answer, there are several philosophical schools on such matters.
Some say that the rule of thumb is the following: if something is on the web and you can download it, say a book or a music or a piece of software, then you may in bona fide assume that it is probably in the public domain (else they would not have uploaded it at all, would they?)

But be careful, and if in doubt, don't steal. Whatever you found will anyway always be there: everything that lands on the web is bound to remain available for ever.

A second word of warning: EVALUATE!


Remember, evaluating results, than when you read crap like the following you can be assured that you will NOT find whatever you are looking for: the clowns that have concocted such "ads-sites" are almost worse than the poor morons that visit them.
FULL ILLEGÅL O-DÅY DOWNLOÅDS++
#FREE FULL GÅME/ÅPP DOWNLOÅDS#
FULL VERSION SOFTWÅRE !
PIRÅTED =- FULL ÅPPZ/GÅMES
NEW PIRÅTED WÅREZ !!!-=-MIRRORS!-=0 DÅY, ZIP -- [ÅPPZ]/[GÅmez]/[ISO's]/[Crkz]/[Moviez]/[XXX]
SUPER FÅST {GÅMEZ*ÅPPZ} DL
FREE ILLEGÅL FULLVERSION

Moreover most of these engines have an awful noise to signal ratio and the sites you'll find this way are either massively bombing you with exploding unsolicited ads-windows, or -even worse- actively injecting trojans inside the systems of all candid souls that surf without firewall and proxy.
Hence you'll probably be better off checking the [ftp searches]

You can use cum grano salis some of the following ad hoc search engines...


Trackers:


Mini Nova
Torrent Spy
The Pirates Bay
Torrent Reactor
Torrent Portal
Bit Torrent
2torrents
Monova
btjunkie
Mega Nova
ISO Hunt
snarf-it
Torrent Box
d-addicts


First of all some useful "torrents" search engines:
http://search.bittorrent.com/



http://searchto01.epsylon.org/search.php (french)


http://www.torrentspy.com/


http://bitoogleb.com/indexb.php
the bit torrent search engine (BitTorrent)
 
.torrent   .iso  | by  advanced bittorrent search



Then some more 'normal' stuff:

[Astalavista] An historical underground s.e., not the most updated one, though

[crack.ru] Russian depth: useful for russian talents

[http://www.audiogalaxy.com/] ftp search and music search, not very useful

[http://reliz.ru/] "Our service is not free anymore. You can make only one search per IP per day"

[http://www.ilsearch.com/] (il)Legal Search Engine

[http://www.nethersearch.com/] 'The Main Stream Guide to the Web's Back Alleys"



[mp3 (americanocentric) search] Allows searches for cracking tools, tutorials and other programming items :-)



Then some ready made 'cracks':

http://www.crackdb.com/?c=1&l=j
or
http://www.andr.net/sn/?l=w&pn=2

And a webbit useful for fishing out crackz sites:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Waver+1.52+Waver+2.04+Waver+2.05+Waver+2.70++Waver+2.80+Waver+2.81++Waver+2.85&btnG=Search
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