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Received mails and problem reports (NSFW language)

Published
by
Niek
on July 18, 2007
in Reports/mails
. 48 Comments

We did a few blog posts on mails and problem reports almost 2 years ago, so I thought it was time for an update :D

On an average day, our mail server receives ~650 incoming email messages. A large part of this is spam, the rest are regular messages (ranging from site suggestions to takedown notices).

As a regular visitor, you probably know that email is not the best way to contact us about torrent problems. That’s why we have the “problem reports” system: every torrent page features a “Report a problem” tab, where visitors can submit the issues they notice related to a torrent. Moderators watch the problem reports queue, and take action if necessary.

Most of the times the mails and reports we receive are useful, but sometimes you see the strangest messages. Here’s a compilation of the best (warning: NSFW language):

your website is very gay and will not let me hav my password as i put it when i created my account WHY NOT????

where is the pin nubmer to unzip the rar file?

Why is the creator of the Bill Maher torrent file so STUPID that they start the name of the file with a period?! Dammit! Get this clue: Files that start with a period are INVISIBLE on UNIX OSs!!! I am on Mac OS X and am sick of this moronic file naming. I am going to complain until this bozo problem is stopped.

hello please help me, i farted on the disc and it became rotten so i cleaned it with piss, then i shoved it into the ps2 but then my ps2 laser broke, what do i do, fart on it again?

pls view the contents of this movie. ther are 3 shadowlike people in a theater making commentaries while the movie is playing. i expected a good movie, but the sound of godzilola is drowned out by the commentaries who are watching the movie

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hello 65895665 65rfui I 2387uthjds Am fdwuirhgsfjds encoding this akijhithjiorhigorjh data foihdgndj so plase read it kgjhidosskgsfdogljfd ok ediohgjhdfoighe it fuck up my computer oidhgodshgdsihgs because of corrupt data issuls

huge codec problem!

this down load is shit! it fucked my £2000 computer. i want to sue your cheap piece of fat jelly looking arse! thank you

Fuck this shit. The menus are in Spanish and everything else in english. Whoever uploaded this really fucked up. Whoever’s gonna download this is going to get fucked

dont download only trial versions. why put this shit on there.put real version not trials asshole!!!!!!!

NO HAVE SOUND!! NAO TEM AUDIOOOO

CD 1 is unburnable!

torrent says english, the language is japanese with english sub titles. tha anyway to the u/l ers but japanese is for the japanese. if you are going to put out a torrent and call it english then put it out in english

ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello i have found a realy big problem which will end up shuttingdown your web site and possibbly getting you arrested for a long time .Some reason people are putting torrents of movies on the web site that are not whot thay seem .My son downloaded the movie the simpsons movie but when it finished downloading it was not the simpsons but a xxx rated movie that has the rong movie title as the torrent name this is not the first time this has happend i will be reporting this to the ploice as the copywrite laws and rateings laws of this country are being broken in a revry sinicter way. I hope you are not sent to jail over this as xx movies are against the law here in Australia .I would not be so pissed of if the names of the movies where correct but this i believe is done deliberatly to get people to download xxrated movies without the user knowing what he has downloaded . I suggest you fix this peoblem quickly before you end up in jail

You take that album Roine Stolt -Wall Street Voodoo
off the site TODAY or I’ll use ALL my legal
connections to shut you down FOREVER !!!
I assure you I DO have connections to shut you down and get you in JAIL !!!
Sincerely
Roine Stolt -author .

Sometimes you have NO idea what people are talking about:

you guys obviously aren’t too clever because on some of the subscriptions you’ve set me up for contain YOUR IP ADDRESS. You guys must be as thick as you fucking look you bunch of cunts. (by the way all i have to do is ignore the messages so im not technically subscribed)

Some users aren’t too happy with our banners:

GET RID OF THE FUCKING BANNER AD FOR FUCKING TALKING SMILYS
I have faithfully used mininova for a year now downloading at least 15 things a day…
But i will never use it again nor will my group (another 30ish people with 8mbit connections same as me) if you dont get rid of this annoying shit
every fucking time i change tab my mouse goes over the stupid banner and it shouts out oh my god go away

If you do not promptly get rid of it we will stop downloading and start 24/7 DoS attacks on your host server

Fucking cheap bastards

And the same guy, after we tracked down and banned the ad (which accidently slipped through):

Hi Niek,
Thank you so very much for getting rid of those seriously annoying banner ads.
The new look site is awesome too.

Just wanted to say thanks and Happy Christmas dude
Peace
DsC

Copyright infringement mails

Published
by
Administrator
on October 7, 2005
in Reports/mails
. 34 Comments

We get quite some “copyright infringement” mails. Below are some funny quotes from these mails.

From a WebSheriff mail: “Intructions” we should immediately comply with:

You must undertake to take out a half-page advertisements in Billboard Magazine, Music Week Magazine and Music & Media Magazine within fourteen (14) days of the date hereof clarifying the fact that (a) your usage of Trademark, the Masters, the Compositions and the Goodwill was not authorised by or otherwise associated with our client, (b) the services offered by you under the Trademark, the Masters, the Compositions and the Goodwill were not offered by or on behalf of our client and (c) you are no longer trading either under or otherwise by use of the Trademark, the Masters, the Compositions and the Goodwill. Furthermore, the said advertisement must include an apology to our client.

From a GrayZone DMCA mail:

I, the undersigned, do solemnly and sincerely declare and CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that…

-snip-

Finally, notwithstanding our use of this required notice form, we believe that www.mininova.org ‘s activities and services fall outside the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). Our use of this form, as required by law, is meant to facilitate www.mininova.org ‘s removal of the infringing materials listed above and is not meant to suggest or imply that www.mininova.org ‘s activities and services are within the scope of the DMCA.

More examples of these DMCA notices can be found here.

Angry emails

Published
by
Administrator
on October 7, 2005
in Reports/mails
. 20 Comments

Besides mails from people who thank us for running mininova, we also receive different kind of mails. Here is a small collection.

Subject: your web site needs recreating

well, welldone for creating the most annoying website i’ve ever seen. In fact f*ck bit torrent. What a pile of shit. Typical of a good idea been wasted once again.

Subject: u dumb badword

how can u putsoca and dancehall in the same topic, are u retarded

Subject: INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT

MY NAME IS MR EMMANUEL DAVIES AND I OWN AND RUN MUN MUN INTERNATIONAL A
MUSIC, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY.

I HAVE RECENTLY VISITED YOUR SITE AND SEEN A COPYRIGHTED PRODUCT OF MINE
FOR DOWNLOAD “REGGAE DANCEHALL SPLASH”

I HAVE NOT GIVEN PERMISSION FOR THIS PRODUCT TO BE ON YOUR SITE NEITHER
DOWNLOADED

I WOULD LIKE LIKE TO KNOW WHY YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW! AND I WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW WHO HAS GIVEN YOU PERMISSION TO HOST MY CD AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE

I WILL AWAIT YOUR REPLY AND WILL GET IN CONTACT WITH MY SOLICITORS TO
PROSECUTE AND HAVE YOUR SITE SHUT DOWN IF YOUR REPLY IS NOT SATISFACTERY.

MR E DAVIES (MD)

Subject: Pirate

Hey web thief,

Is this the way you do business, you are doing illegal stuff, and some people are not happy that you are steeling someone business.

You think it is normal?

With no regards,

Co Mast

Stupid mails

Published
by
Administrator
on September 29, 2005
in Reports/mails
. 14 Comments

in addition to previous posts, some of the emails we get:

Good tomorrow, the following has happened, by means of the tel. I have made connection with you and I a recording has got code. I glad and want will download shareaza. My pc. cannot find the page and I am demolished. at the next attempt it are said there that the payment has been not yet received. By means of the baffle I saw that there 2 euro 50 had been paid. I am must perhaps too impatiently I a couple days wait or there wrongly have acted. Hopelijk you can help me rapidly. Thanks you, however, Tonnie Moltini.

aaah, ofcourse :|

Hi how I download the site to start downloading from your site
Regards Hayley

yeah, yeah, download the site !

can u put whole cd on plz

putting one on right now, in my cdplayer that is

hi can u tell me how i can tell if a film is in mpeg please

u could take a look at the extension…

Hi my name is Billy! I would like share people for “Video Hintbooks”. u know video game books make more for them. i wish thats one for video game books for me mininova. please make for me and thank.
Let me know write to me my email …@yahoo.com

what the hell?

hi, wanted to know of you one script equal “Detailed information” that it possesss in the Mininova.org.

Please they order for obliged me

aaah yeah, I get it, NOT

Hello..

How does I know which my NAP is?
Thanx

hmm that depends, do you mean your National Academy Press or maybe the Nebraska AIDS Project aah i know ofcourse you mean the National Association of Parliamentarians.
seriously, i need to take a nap now :)

finally, this guy @ IRC,

Pe1o: anyrules I should be aware off before I get kicked ?
Pe1o: !list
* Pe1o was kicked by mininova (no list! read topic!)

and matthijs at his best…

Viiiza: !search
matthijs: Starting mind reading program…
matthijs: Viiiza wants to search for: Gay Porn ,m.sdf//03427ERROR DETECTED
* Viiiza (~xxx@xxx-xx-xxx-xx.dyn.iinet.net.au) has left #mininova

erik^: Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day!
* matthijs puts his DDos bots to work

More reports

Published
by
Administrator
on September 29, 2005
in Reports/mails
. 2 Comments

In addition to Erik’s post, some more reports! Most people forget that only the admins can see the reports and nobody else! (Until now that is ;)

baixei o heroes VI porem não acho um arquivo executavel para a instalação. como faço para instalar o jogo

Yeah sure! :S

whats the damn pass,you forgot to include it.

We don’t upload the torrents so we didn’t forget anything!

Some more common reports:

Dose not work. There are a lot of torrent that don’t work.

at the installation he says insert disc 2, but i used the crack….and it still keep asking i don’t now wat to do for 5 days!!! pleasee help me…:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: My e-mail chill__xx@hotmail.com

I hate wasteing time downloading something when its not what it says it is, where and not anywhere does it say that this is anything, people get your act together!

missing .cue file

WHY WONT THE FILE I SELECTED DOWN LOAD?

you smartass i clicked on cd-key and it said… AH HA SCREW YOU ASSHOLE. IM VERY ANGRY ABOUT THAT YOU THINK ITS FUNNY DONT YOU.. CYA SMARTASS

As you can see these are useless reports and do not help us deleting/editing torrents! We get way more than 150 reports a day and it’s hard for us to keep “handling” them. So please think before submitting!

Reported “problems”

Published
by
Administrator
on September 29, 2005
in Reports/mails
. 28 Comments

My 12 year old daughter downloaded this game and when she clicked the HTML “read me” file, she was put through to some hardcore porn :lol: She’s NOT offended, nor am I, but there’s people out there who will be… Just wanted to point this out… Regards,

After I downloaded this file: Twisted.DVDRip-XviD.OPT!V!D I got a letter in from my internet provider saying that I had illegally shared a paramount product without their permission. How do I prevent myself for any future problems without having to stop using BitTorrent?

gimmie the fuckin shid what is it guys!

hi how do i download mini nova on my computer?

how do u become a torrent? n how do u download items tell me please it is really get on my nerves

Becoming a torrent, I wonder what it would feel like…

Metal gear solid 3 snake eater PS2 fullDVD PAL - Spanish-Español.torrent

Is in Italian?

People should really read before posting.

cant download offline!

Me neither!

is the search function a database or is it people seeing i’m searching and helping out?

No, we are using ants. Google uses their pigeon clusters to do the searches, but we have found that pigeons are somewhat stupid and slow.

The problem with pigeons is that they can’t work together. If you throw some food to a group of pigeons in a park, you will see that they all start to fight for the food.

If you throw some food near an ant farm you will see that the ants will work together to harvest the food as soon and efficiently as posible.

We have developed the AntSearch 3000™ system, which uses the speed and efficiency of the ants to do the work for us.

We currently have 2 AntSearch 3000™ systems running to process the average of almost 10 searches per second.