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January 10, 2013

TSR attacks 3 more sites with false DMCA Reports UPDATED

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 21:19

TSR scumbag Thomas O. Isaksson has attacked 2 more Sims sites with his false DMCA reports. TSR have NO RIGHT to report any files for a DMCA as legally TSR own nothing. The EULA clearly states that all files made using EA owned software ( The Sims ) is the property of EA GAMES. EA games have given open permission for fansites to publish and/or share THEIR property for other players enjoyment – unless it is for commercial gain ( as in illegally selling it @TSR ) Even the TSR workshop was created using the EA software, which means that too remains the property of EA.

http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=1732

Not happy with falsely reporting EA owned files made by current TSR staff, Tom has stooped low enough to report retextures of files made by FORMER TSR staff that are not even on TSR, in this case Newsea. Also reported were files made solely by the site owners which have no connection to TSR’s present or former staff.

Marie Antoinette from therescakeinyourhair says:

She received this takedown notice from Mediafire:

UPDATE: 11 JAN 2013:

Marie Antoinette says: Thank you so much for publishing this, Coco. This seriously irritates me to no end, and he has reported EVEN MORE files, including Coolsims, Cazy, and more Newsea hairs. It has the same messages, and it’s still from Thomas.

Jenni from Jennisims has also had several take down notices on files where both the meshes and the textures were entirely created by Jenni. One example is this:

 It is also worth noting that all Jennis downloads are her own work, on occasions where she has used outside meshes, these are not included in the download – only the re-textures made by herself.

Justin from PradaSims says:

“Hey, I am justin from Pradasims and they also attacked me! I hate them!!”

Tom, yesterday, made a somewhat correct statement stating that someone with nothing better to do is reporting Mediafire files. He also claims that anyone can put his name on the complaint, also true.. But how the hell does he explain ’them’ using his email to file the complaints? Oh that’s right.. he doesn’t! He also fails to explain why he has not cancelled the claims. Mediafire would notify him, at his given contact address, that the files are being suspended, he would know even before the file owner does, so why did he not simply write to Mediafire and admit the files do not belong to him or TSR? Instead he waits until the file owner contacts him and then fakes mock shock and horror, he seems to be feeding off their confused emails, rather like last April when he pulled the same ‘joke’ for an April fools stunt. It is a criminal offence to file a fake DMCA report, Tom knows this. He needs the ‘genuine’ reports to get the files removed, but he thinks he is being smart using the half hearted denials ( that really are not denials ) after the fact to wriggle out of legal action.. Tom isn’t as smart as he he thinks he is - and the community are not so dumb. 

TomsLittlePenis says:

 TomsLittlePenis is correct.

It is just a matter of time :)

Related reading:

http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=1732
http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=990
Many Thanks to Sunsetsims

May 21, 2012

TSR Demands: EA suggest seeking legal advice. ( Updated )

Filed under: Submitted Screencaps, The Sims Resource, Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 12:11

Note: Because non English speakers find it difficult to translate screencaps, I have included a text version of all the images in this article found here http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?page_id=1532

As many of you will have noticed, aside from their frequent hacking and defacements of ‘rival’ sites, TSR’s ridiculous demands and downright bullying of other sites seems to be escalating. They are already in full swing telling fan sites what they can or cannot host, either by take down notices or by making false reports to Mediafire and other file hosts, resulting in the deletion of files totally belonging to the site owner and having nothing what-so-ever to do with TSR. In addition to this, TSR are telling site owners which sites they can and cannot LINK to! After receiving a PM at TSR, one such site owner was so disgusted she wrote to EA to complain. You can tell from the replies that EA was pretty shocked and in the end suggested she take legal advice.

Below are screencaps taken from the forwarded Emails, I have censored out all personal details, I am still awaiting to see if I have permission to name her website, If I have that I will gladly uncensor that part.

This is followed by an auto response with an incident # ( not published ) and then another general response.

EA push the fact that TSR is no way affiliated with them and ask “what is going on?” ( Ref # censored )

She goes on to explain to EA that she got a message from TSR stating they cannot allow her to place a link to her blog. They also LIED to her by stating that the link she had on her site was also to EA pirated content. There has never been pirated content at http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/ In fact that link takes you to a large copy of EA’s EULA where readers might just notice that TSR is illegal. ( Website censored )

 

EA: “That is completely wrong of them to do that and in no way accepted by us as far as we know.”

EA: ” it would be best to seek professional legal advice on whether or not you are violating their terms of service and whether or not the website is doing anything wrong on their end”

TSR may be in their rights to ask anyone not to promote certain links on their TSR Minisite, but they have NO RIGHTS to order anyone to remove links from their own website. Clearly EA do not have a problem with PMBD links, they suggest you seek legal advice if TSR do.

Just for the lulz, here is TSR’s statement once again..

“Respect for creators is something very important for TSR. … LOL respect is earned and seldom given to bullies.

That is the exact reason why no CC can be included in lots from creators who do not allow it to be included… OH sorry they meant re$pect.

The link you show on your own blog, is about a site that is all about disrespecting creators, specially (FA) creators from TSR. They upload their creations without having their permission. ..How many creations are hosted at TSR despite the creators requesting they are removed. Why can creators not remove their own creations or accounts? There are more creations hosted against the creators wishes at TSR than on any other site anywhere.

We cannot allow you to place a link to your blog when you actually advertise this site on your blog…. Simples. Just delete the TSR link.

You will need to remove that from your creations and from your minisite… Some bullies never leave the school yard, seriously have you heard yourself? How old are you?

 And just for your information: that site is not made by EA,… and are they are trying to give the impression that TSR is?

 they are in fact very much against them….. Which is why that link takes you to a huge copy of EA’s EULA which states that stealing their stuff and putting it on paysites is illegal? I would have thought the business illegally selling EA content and demanding the removal of links to the EULA was more against them!

..since that same group of people is also pirating EA creations.”   TSR=Commercial, Paysite, Business, Pirates.  PMBD=Free, Gratis, Noncommercial. Fans. http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/

The EULA clearly states that “You may include materials created with the Tools & Materials on your personal noncommercial website for the noncommercial benefit of the fan community for EA’s products” TSR are the only ones commercially selling EA creations, and not for the benefit of anyone other than themselves.

Update

 I have included the Url of the website, with permission. Many thanks to the webmistress of  lesimsdesigns for coming forward and sharing her experience with TSR and her contact with EA.

 

May 2, 2012

Have TSR had your files deleted by Mediafire?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 19:54

Have TSR had your files deleted by Mediafire? In the increasingly likely event this should happen there are 3 options that you can do.

Option 1

  Do nothing.  Upload your files to another host and hope this does not happen again. Tom has not had much luck deleting files from http://www.99p-services.in/filehost or you can shop around, try different services. Try to find a host that is less gullible than Mediafire, one who actually checks that any files reported as ’stolen’ from TSR are actually stolen.

Option 2

  Email Thomas, he is the one who had your files deleted, so he is really going to listen to what you have to say right? Sit and wait while Tom forwards your mail to his inner circle for giggles and await his reply… He has replied! Wow you must be special, this guy has listened to what you have to say and has bothered to reply, what a saint! Read carefully where he tells you it was not TSR, while disregarding the Email from Mediafire that says it was. Mediafire are a bunch of liars anyway. Now you find out from your new friend Tom that Mediafire employs a pirate named Lachandra. It was her that had your downloads deleted.  She is one of those greedy pirates in the community who want everything for free and that is why she is taking down free files…wait.. huh?… Nevermind, it must be true. Tom’s a genuine nice guy, he wouldn’t make something like that up.  She must be the one hacking all the free sites too.  Damn Mediafire pirate. Thank Tom, tell him how much you love TSR. Do not forget to add how you always hated the greedy attitude of the free community anyway. Hope he one day offers you a place in his great community. Make sure your sub is renewed. Write to Mediafire and demand they fire Lachandra. Spread the word to everyone that TSR is innocent and to keep an eye out for the evil Lachandra. Make a shrine to Tom in your bedroom, and nail his picture above your bed.

Option 3

  Instantly change all your passwords to one you have NEVER EVER used on TSR. Write to Mediafire, calmly explain the situation and forward the email you got from them. Inform them that the accusation is false. Tell them that in order for you to understand the complaint against you, you need more information about the complainant and you need to know what necessary steps they took to verify that you did steal from TSR and also what steps they took to verify who in TSR was the actual complainant. You need to find out:

  • Was the complaint filed via an online ticket system, or forum? If so, did it log the IP of the complainant?
  • Was the complaint filed by Email? If so did the Email of the actual sender match the Email listed in the complaint? ( DMCA )
  • Was the DMCA filed by fax? If so you need details on that and a copy of the signature.
  • Did they contact the complainant by telephone? If so did the number match the one in the DMCA?
  • Finally, did they email the complainant to notify him that they are taking action or send an auto generated mail  to confirm his complaint has been received?  ( usually, they do both ) and if so did the complainant respond in any way to stop the deletion?

You then need to find out the steps involved for restoring your files,  and also for making a formal complaint against the complainant.

 If you have written to Tom and been ridiculed with his LaChandra ‘joke’ make sure you forward that mail to them as well. Ask them to confirm that LaChandra ( or any of the other Mediafire staff who may be mentioned on the take-down email  ) actually exists and is not a member of the Sims community/pirate/supernatural source/crazy cult or whatever story Tom has spun you. 

  It is up to you which option you take and how keen you are to get to the bottom of this.

 

May 1, 2012

TSR attacks Baufive: UPDATED

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 22:53

  In the same style as Zveki was attacked, TSR have now attacked another website with a false copyright infringement claim to Mediafire. This time it was Baufive from b5studio. Baufive posted a message stating that Mediafire had suspended his original content downloads due to a complaint lodged from TSR, claiming copyright infringement. Below is a donated screen cap of the post ( Cropped and red splodged by me )

 View from clicking on Baufives downloads

I am told that not only has Baufive NOT infringed any copyrights, he is also a paying subscriber at T$R. He plans to contact Thomas and try to get this resolved, however the last person to do this ( Zveki ) ended up being the butt of a cruel ‘joke’ and was additionally slapped with a lifetime ban from TSR. http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=1450

It will be interesting to see what reply Tom has planned this time.

Thank you to ‘Anon’ for the information and screencaps.

UPDATE:

The TSR sock puppets are out in force ( estatica.. really?? ) While Tom remains silent. Possibly he’s either contemplating his next ‘joke’ or busy hacking Baufives YouTube.

Update 1: Tom went for the old joke… and they say lightening never strikes twice :)

Update 2: 

‘Someone’ hacked Baufive’s Gmail account. How kind of Tom to be the first to notice and let Baufive know on his blog account.

Of course you did Thomas, we believe you.. or are you just taking the piss? I wonder if that last sentence is a thinly veiled threat?

April 9, 2012

Hacked, TOS’d and victim of a cruel ‘April Fool’ UPDATED

Filed under: The Sims Resource — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 14:56

 Most people celebrate Easter by eating chocolate or going to church, Tom celebrates it by sacrificing a member of the free community, I guess he was all out of goats.

 TSR Thomas has yet again destroyed the work of a talented creator and freesite owner. This time not only did he file blatant false TOS reports, hack him and then release some personal information, he also made his victim the subject of a cruel ” Late April Fools” joke and has spent most of the day laughing at him.

  Some of you may know ZVEKI from sites such as LivingSims or TheBlackPearl and also his Tumblr website. On his site he had some Sims 3 downloads that were converted from TS2 meshes, a few of these meshes were originally made by TSR artists. TSR demanded he remove these downloads from his site, Which he immediately did, although he was doing nothing illegal or unethical in hosting these – in fact by TSR’s own standards this practise is totally acceptable, such as when TSR take a mesh from a TS2 base game, stuff pack, or expansion  and convert them, they claim the rights to the converted mesh belongs to them and therefore  is theirs to sell, so by these standards the rights to the converted meshes now belong to ZVEKI. Even so, Zveki was kind enough to take them down from his site and they were instead hosted at sunsetsims. All the downloads that remained belonged to Zveki and had nothing to do with TSR.

 Tom, unwilling to let this rest then decided to report EVERY download left on the site, he filed a false report to Mediafire stating that these remaining downloads were the property of TSR and were stolen by Zveki, as a result all his downloads on his site and on other sites were deleted by Mediafire. 

 On the same day Zveki’s  YouTube channel was hacked  and all his videos , all the files he was working on and over 1000 subscribers were lost, his account name was changed to ‘I STEAL FROM BIGGER AND BETTER ARTISTS’ and his telephone number was displayed on the page.

 It gets sicker.. Tom has been laughing about it all day. What Tom has found really funny is that he spoke to Zveki  and has somehow convinced him to go after someone called  LaChandra, saying that she took down Zvekis downloads because she is working for ‘pirates’. The part of the ‘joke’ that Tom did not share with Zveki  is that LaChandra is part of the Anti piracy team at Mediafire, and although she may have technically been the one to remove the downloads, she did it because of a direct report ( A LIE ) from Thomas himself. Tom is calling Zveki a “late April Fool” and he cannot wait to see him publically accuse a member of the Mediafire team of being a ‘pirate’ and a hacker.

 Tom says he did this because of Zvekis association with Sunsetsims, although this is just a pathetic excuse because he was targeting him before he hosted some of his files there.

 Although gleefully joking about his false TOU report, Tom has not openly claimed responsibility for the YouTube hack, (..he has not denied it either ) However the fact that the hack was done on very the same day as his false report and also how he referred to the hack before it was publicised raises no doubts in my mind that this was another TSR hack to add to his collection.

 To put a cherry on the cake, Tom has also banned Zveki from TSR for life, although this is not a bad thing, at least he cannot steal any more updated passwords/personal info from his account. Sadly, as a result of TSR’s harassment, Zveki has announced that he is no longer creating for the Sims. I wish he would reconsider and not make this too easy for that smug little b’stard.

 Word of warning to Tom, while reading the TOU on your many visits to Mediafire did you read right to the end?  No? Better up the subs at TSR, you may have a bill coming…

 

Update

Another site falls victim to TSR, Dreamsims ( TS3stuffs ) http://ts3stuffs.blogspot.com/

March 27, 2012

Pedobear: Under attack

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , — coconut @ 05:14

It seems some images on my site were attacked, mostly those images connected to prior articles on attacks against both Sunsetsims and Levini. These images have now been restored.

As one of the main targeted images was a photograph of TSR Thomas with his best bud Pedobear, I can only come to one conclusion – That the attacker was one of the two people in that photograph. It does not take a rocket scientist to work out which one. Clearly Pedobear is embarrassed at being associated with Thomas and it was him who I suspect attacked my site images.

SunsetSims: Under Attack

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 04:46

SunsetSims is an amazing site notably providing all TSR subscriber downloads for free. It has very quickly become public enemy no1 within the TSR camp. Sunsetsims has suffered countless attacks in the past from TSR, including 3 full site deletions due to false TOS reports directly from TSR. Pescado came to the rescue, hosting Sunset on his servers. The attacks did not stop, this time continuing with false reports to her file hosts, resulting in her downloads being deleted.

Just under 2 weeks ago, around the 14th March Sunset was taken down by a suspected DDos attack, the site was down for around 10 days. It returned on the 24th and was operational for only a few hours before a virus was ‘injected’ into the site. The purpose of this virus was to redirect users away from Sunsetsims to other random sites such as Google, yahoo, youtube and various news sites from around the globe. Luckily this virus was easily detected by most AV’s and was easily cleaned from our computers but the malicious intent resulted in the site being inaccessible until it was finally cleaned today. Within a couple of hours of the cleaning it was attacked again, this time with a suspected DDos attack leaving the site again, inaccessible.

Sunsetsims is working hard to resolve these problems and will be back up and running ASAP. Rest assured on its return it will still feature all the latest subscriber content from TSR, for FREE saving you $$$ on illegal subscription fees. enjoy :)

Further reading search:
http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?s=sunset

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June 25, 2011

TSR: Still harassing sites, still deleting your downloads. UPDATED 4th JULY

Filed under: Submitted Screencaps, The Sims Resource, Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , — coconut @ 01:19

TSR are still on a mission to eliminate rival sites, and if he can not get your sites, he will get your downloads.

Many of you will be all too familiar with mysterious disappearing files hosted offsite from places such as Mediafire. These hosting sites are popular with those of you that have small sites and/or limited bandwidth, and also with those of you who have had your websites hacked and your downloads deleted. You may think that by hosting off site your downloads are safe. Nope, Tom has that covered. Tom classes these deletions as a form of sport, and gains endless hours of pleasure out of watching someone’s files get ‘legally’ deleted. In most cases the legality is up for question, considering he lies about the file ownership in order to achieve his goal. How does this work? It is really simple. You create a dress, upload it to Mediafire. Tom tells Mediafire he owns that dress, and gives them a link to any dress on TSR. Mediafire do not have a picture of your file, they are not simmers or programmers and they do not open your packaged file. Tom is careful not to provide a link to your site in case they notice your pictures and his pictures do not match. They take his word that it is his file and it is deleted. They do not want to get into copyright arguments – it is far easier for them to delete your file and ignore your complaints.

He also uses this method as a form of harassment; you may remember that like GOS, Spanish site Sunset Sims had their site deleted due to a false TOS report. They launched a new site with the help of Pescado. Since then countless files have been continually deleted from their offsite hosts. I was talking to the site owner, Bencuom, yesterday, ( who I must add is one of nicest and sweetest people you could ever wish to meet ) and when I asked her to estimate the number of downloads she has lost, she replied “many, many”. Which I assume is an awful lot. I do know this has been continuously happening to her on her latest site since she reopened in January and before that Tom had her Wordpress closed, so I would agree an exact amount of lost files would be hard to estimate.

She has kindly provided me with a copy of an Email sent to her from Mediafire in May and gave me permission to share this. I have removed her Email address from the top.

So there you have it. All carpet patterns belong to TSR, ( by law! ) This, from TSR – the same idiots that also tried to claim ownership on the color orange, and then went on claim a full palette of block colors. But let us ignore the fact that The Sims and all its merchandise belong to EA.

UPDATE 4th JULY

The harassment of Sunset sims still continues, this is one of the three ‘take-down’ notifications Sunsetsims has received in one day. Little Tom has been busy.

March 17, 2011

TSR: Still hacking YOUR community. Updated 11 April 2012

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 00:25

 

  Full list of sites hacked or TOU attacked. I will update this list when/if I hear of more hackings, and update with any more details I find out about those already listed.

  • GOS ( False TOU report from TSR last year. Hacked again 16 Feb 2011. Lost 3 days posts, IP left was the TSR proxy. Site saved by Pescado, TSR FAILED to do much damage.  Full Details on GOS forums. )
  • Reflexsims ( Now Blackpearl- Feb 2009. Toms countdown to their demise can be found in the FAIL article )
  • Gaysimsclub
  • Sims2artists ( Hacked 4 times, last 2 being Aug and Dec 2010.  IPs left are a mix of the TSR proxy and random proxy servers. One of the admins IM, image sites and Email were also hacked. )
  • Natural Sims
  • Coconut’s LJ  ( TOU report twice, private blog hacked once. )
  • Exnem ( Hacked 2009 – Tom admitted to this one )
  • Booty/PMBD/Maty ( DDossed countless times )
  • Simssecret
  • The Sims petition  to EA  ( Hacked and destroyed before it could be sent. TSR later shared the full names and emails of everyone who signed it. Former TSR manager admits that Tom supplied her with the data stolen from the hacked petition  )
  • BuggyBooz ( MTS2 account hacked after she rightfully complained that Shakeshaft stole her meshes and sold them on TSR. Buggys meshes were deleted by Tom in an attempt to hide the fact that buggy was the original creator. )
  • Basicforsims
  • Sugah’s Place
  • SIMplyEdward ( Hacked 3 times. Ip left was the TSR proxy )
  • Coolsims  ( Hacked 2010, site now under ongoing continuous attack Feb 2011 )
  • Bitethebullet ( Hacked oct 2010 IP was 74.55.11.66 from the TSR proxy, site now under ongoing continuous attack Feb 2011 )
  • Coloursims ( Hacked 2010, site now under ongoing continuous attack Feb 2011 )
  • Sunhairs Sms Creations ( Hacked 5th June 2010 – Forum deleted and the word c**ts displayed on front page )
  • Crazy Town ( Hacked June 2010 – IP traces to the TSR proxy. See comments for more details. )
  • Living sims  ( Hacked Nov 2010 after owner refused to close the site and work on the TSR magazine )
  • Sunsetsims ( Closed due to false TOU report from TSR )
  • Coconuts shoutbox ( Dec 2010 – Not hacked but porn links left, IP’s belong to Atwa’s place of work, and Thomas. See screencaps. )
  • Awesims ( Hacked Jan 2011 – Site hacked and changed to porn, Emails hacked, nameservers changed, work site also hacked. Owner banned from TSR and falsly accused of piracy on both her site and on Sunset Sims. Site hacked after a false TOU report from TSR was ignored by her host. )
  • Adelevk ( Hacked Feb 2011 -  Malicious content injected )
  • Sims Oasis   ( Hacked Feb 2011 )
  • ashleycjul.so-pink.org ( Hacked Feb 2011, along with her box.net, mediafire, and photobucket accounts. Nasty pics posted )
  • nectere.net ?? ( As yet unconfirmed as a hack, front page says F**k off c**ts and nothing else, could be a hack, could be an upset site owner )
  • Neffretti 13  ( reported via shoutbox, have been unable to find this site to confirm.   link now supplied on shoutbox. )
  • Sims 3 Musketeers ( Hacked Feb 09 2011. Site reports that everything was deleted. Site unaccessable just now, info available on Google cache )
  • Cherryblossomsims forum ( Ongoing. Under massive attack over the last few days Feb 2011. IP: TSR proxy )
  • Sherriesims ( Hacked Feb-March 2011? Unconfirmed, reported via shoutbox )
  • Sailfin ( Hacked 5th March, Goatse porn posted, board taken offline. Logs confirm the TSR IP appears heavily during the time of the attack)
  • Simbecile’s blog  ( Hacked sometime between 8th – 9th March. Box.net account also hacked. Gross images posted.  This site belongs to a 16 year old girl )
  • enayla’s personal site was hacked and malicious content injected. http://www.furiae.com
  • SunsetSims (New host)  ( Injected with a virus in March 2012, under constant DDos to date )
  • Coconut ( Images of Tom & Pedobear, Levini screencaps hacked March 27 2012 )
  • Zveki  ( Fake reports filed from TSR on all of HIS site files resulting in their deletion. Youtube hacked. Easter 2012 )
  • Dreamsims ( TS3stuffs ) http://ts3stuffs.blogspot.com/ 10th April 2012

   If you know of any I have missed please remind me and I will add the to the list. 

Updated 17th March – Simbecile’s blog update

In addition to her blog, I have now been informed that Simbecile’s box.net account was also hacked, and that “gross content was left behind” This is TSR’s MO. I am shocked and saddened to hear that Simbecile is a 16 year old girl. I understand that over at Blackpearlsims they are trying to recover her lost files, Simbecile is also known as Alfie on BPS, so if you have any files from either Simbecile or Alfie please contact her or blackpearlsims.

9th March 2011: Since I have written the last article it seems that more sites have been attacked. The latest being GOS , Cherryblossom sims forum, bitethebullet and colorsims. Crissi tells me that Cherryblossomsims forum has been under massive attack over the last few days. I do not know the nature of the attack as yet, but the reported IP is the same one that attacked GOS, which belongs to TSR. The same goes for Bitethebullet and colorsims, S1mOne reports that bitethebullet is also under continued attack since last week and the same is happening to coloursims. Bitethebullet was last hacked in Oct 2010, the IP of the hacker belonged to the TSR proxy.

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  If you know of a site that has been hacked/DDossed/TOU attacked please give them all the help that you can. You can help by suggesting alternative hosting, recovering any lost files if you have ever downloaded them, taking new item screen shots for those who have lost photo accounts, donating to their site if you can, linking to their new site if they have to change url or offering kind words, support and a friendly ear. These sites are the backbone of our community and we can not afford to lose them. 

  I have heard from SIMplyEdward , He was one of 3 forumotion sites that got hacked. His site was hacked 3 times.  He has provided the IP:  74.55.11.66 This IP traces back to THEPLANET.COM INTERNET SERVICES. The same place as the TSR proxy, which is the paid proxy from the hide IP network, that was provided to Atwa as a gift from Tom and Per back in 2008.  It was later provided to all main staff at TSR, for use with ‘trolling’

 The proxy is part of the hide IP network and has 2 bands of IPs, one band traces to the UK with the hosts rapidswitch, (  Found on Gayles forum and involved in the hacking of sims secret  http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=462 ) and the other band traces to the US with the host THEPLANET.COM. ( The same trace as the proxy IP found on Toms account at MTS and the IP that hacked BuggyBooz account there. 70.85.179.186 )   

  I have a copy of this myself, and although that particular IP is not on it, the US trace is the same, so they may be using an older or newer version of the program. While it is notable that other staff do have access to this proxy supplied by TSR, they do not have access to the database or to the unencrypted passwords, Such information could only be supplied by Tom, Steve, Per, Johan or Micke.

March 9, 2011

Victories in the community!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — coconut @ 18:12

  I am pleased to report some good news for once!

Sunset sims returns

  Sunsetsims recently had their wordpress site deleted due to a false TOU report from Tom. Pescado has kindly come to the rescue and SunsetSims now have a new home at  http://sunsetsims.mustbedestroyed.org/. 

Hack recoveries

  GOS and Sailfin report no damage from their attacks, and have fully restored their sites. Cherryblossom, bitethebullet and colorsims have also regained control of their sites. Sailfin also confirms that in her logs the TSR IP appears heavily during the time of the attack.

Useful information

  Sofia left the following comment on my last article, which may prove useful. Thank you for this.

Hi!
I’ve looked into this a little bit, being Swedish and all makes it a little bit easier to find info relating to Sweden

TSR leaking information on their members is a violation against the Personal Data Act, (In Sweden it’s called Personuppgiftslagen, or PUL). PUL is controlled/checked/monitored by something called Datainspektionen. While Datainspektionen may not be able to do *very very* much, and I suppose a little less for those of you who are living outside the EU, they would certainly want to know about this large amount of violations.

Information on this can be found at http://www.datainspektionen.se, just use other languages at the upper right corner, pick english, ang go to legislation.

As to the hacking of websites and deleting them, it was very difficult to find any info. I mean, WHERE has the crime been committed? At Thomas’ computer in Sweden, or at the websites server? If the crime is done in Sweden, the crime is called Dataintrång, and is a crime against Brottsbalken Chapter 4 Paragraph 9. Someone with more experience on Law could specify this.

Anyone can press charges, wether they live in Sweden or not (as shown by piratebay a few years ago).

The point is, the crimes that have been committed are relatively small, but the number of violations may be enough to create some sort of reaction.

Polisen.se (and then picking your language of choice), may also be useful to you. Those living in the EU should have no problem finding information from your domestic lawyers.

I’m not an expert or anything, but I do live here and speak the language, and I would really like to help anyone who can benefit from this information.

That guy really pisses me off!

 / Sofia

New community logo popping up everywhere!

   A new community logo seems to be taking the free community by storm, it is appearing on websites, blogs and forums and also as signatures and avatars. I wish to thank the creator, Liegenschonheit,
 and I will be sure to use it myself :) Please support the cause and use it too. Available in large or small.

 

 

Credit: Liegenschonheit  http://gardenofshadows.digitalperversion.net/

  Please remember to warn others about the dangers of TSR, and if you can, put a note on your website/forum. Not only will you be saving other people the misfortune of hackings, trojans and personal information leaks, you will also directly reduce the revenue reaped by these criminals in subscriptions and advertising.

TSR are using terrorist tactics. They want you to know that it is them, but they do not want you to prove it.

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