Advanced Searching for Copyrighted Content - Part IV - ‘DDL’ Websites
February 02, 08 by sharky 2,440 views« Part 4 of a 7-part series on Advanced Searching for Copyrighted Content »
Part 4. Searching ‘Warez’ / DDL websites.
We’ve already covered this topic on Direct Download Link (aka ‘Warez’ websites) - read it in it’s entirety here. So instead of rehashing what we’ve already done, we’ll elaborate on the searching implementations. And we’ve found a few DDL sites that really stick out from the rest (especially this one), plus we found some good tips for downloading multiple files at the same time. But first, a little more info on DDL websites:
One thing that we like about DDL sites is that they are essentially anonymous. The only site that knows what links you’ve clicked is the warez hosting site themselves, and certainly rapidshare.com isn’t about to start logging everyone’s activities and passing it on to the authorities.
DDL sites are getting smarter - to compensate for content that’s being deleted, some will offer multiple ‘mirrors’ to different hosting sites. Assuredly at least one of the links should be working. If you ever come across a file that has been deleted by rapidshare.com, this is the nasty error message that you’ll receive:
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