CC, you're a moron... You're defending/attacking points made by nobody. Where one earth does it say this should be something controlled by one man. Also, your alligations are false. I never had anything illegal on my site. I never performed a DOS attack (wouldn't even know how to do that). And I don't agree celeb content is 'stolen' by default.
Please stop trying to proof how wrong I am and how wrong you are. This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with what we're working on here and I think it's pretty sad someone has to come with off-topic remarks like you're doing now. Nobody is helped with that. I never had ANYTHING illegal on my site, let's face that. When it really comes down to it I can link to any hotlinking and stolen content gallery. I am not responsible for what other people put on the web. A link can never be illegal, not even to an index of pictures (I had people submit an index of pictures on their own server to test if they could hold up, but this was of course not the majority). But I don't feel it's right. I don't want to link people that steal shit from others. Nor do I want to list people that change their gallery to child pornography once they're listed. THAT is what I'm trying to do. And your comments are not helping.
I didn't even read your whole reply. Too far off the truth and drawing conclusions that are way off from the truth. If I read such crap and react right away all that will happen is throwing mud. I'm not going there.
I think you're a pretty looser for bringing up things that happened 6-7 years ago and that have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with this topic. Your ONLY goal with a post like that is to show everybody you can tell The Hun he's wrong. So you're bringing up facts that aint true, draw conclusions from statements that ain't true... Well, hooray... Doesn't take a rocket-scientist to figure that one out. but please stick to adding things to the discussion. So that's good or bad things ABOUT THE TOPIC.
Linking indexes is not the most friendly way of dealing with sites. At the time I was running my site I was one of the surfers. Indexes were on people's personal homepages (the free site you get with your internet account). Those links are not of companies, they're free webspace at the time there were no headers or footers on there. My site was on a personal homepage like that (
http://www.tip.nl/users/~t256553/). When people started submitting galleries they found on the web also links from companies started coming in. I listed those. May I point out again that this is not illegal, though I didn't know that at the time. Not did I consider it could be illegal. This was back when I had about 15,000 uniques a day. Once things started to become bigger and I had to pay bandwidth and saw what it takes to have content on-line I saw that what I was doing, though not illegal, was highly inethical in immoral. I don't want to go there, so as soon as I realised that I stopped linking indexes.
So, with this said can we PLEASE stop the off-topic crap and go back to the point of this threat?! Or should we start talking about your circle-jerking projects?