It sucks... but it isn't going to go away. End of story, pretty much.
The "clever" sites stay afloat by simply not being illegal. If somebody points you to warez, it is not illegal. The person hosting the warez is doing illegal things, and if you download and use the warez, then that's illegal, too... but to link to warez isn't a crime.
The "illegal" sites with direct downloads are hosting warez, and thus illegal... but you'll find that they're usually located somewhere where nobody is actually going to persue them, or that they use
http://go.to (etc) redirects to move their site around to several different places - as they get bumped off of one provider they shack up with another.
If you're annoyed by it all, try and find out who their provider/host is and mail them and telling them - they might remove the site... but they might not care, either. It might annoy them a little, but they'll be back up the next day somewhere else.
Sorry to sound so defeatist, but people are always going to warez things and crack things if they have to (and sometimes just for fun). You can't "stop" it, and it probably isn't even worth trying..
Cheers,
Refractor
Warez - What's a developer to do?
by TechMage » Jun 3, 2002 @ 7:33am 
