live4starbucks

Does anyone know, is this site (macfile.org) down? I haven't been able to access it for days.

LazyVampire

this one too ?

thats GFXWorld, Avax, Magesy and Macfile. Winder if they all use the same server or something. Arent they ALL russian based ?

live4starbucks

none of those appear to be working, haven't a clue though if they are connected. I only stumbled on macfile.org because of the link posted here.

bobaloo

Cool links, must get 5 posts.

war

EDIT on 18.07.08 00:00 Moscow time (GMT +3)
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As the temporary URL of "AvaxHome reloaded" is momentary pointing to a page of the hoster, here the content (written by Avax, the owner of AH) for your information (will be removed from here as soon as the original page is back to public):
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AvaxHome Reloaded

STEP ONE

There are problems out of our control. Here we are not discuss about it, anyway it’s useless. Now it doesn’t matter what is roots of our… difficulties. Let’s think about future.

So, what we have? The temporary host – http://fit-media.ru (purchased at the middle of the past week for quite different purposes). Yesterday a new dedicated IP was bought (process of it activation goes at this time). When this procedure would be finished visitors of the avaxhome.ru would be redirected here => fit-media.ru (unfortunately we do not have access to other domains). Here we will be inform you about course of reincarnation.

What we need in the first place? We must rent servers. If anybody know good ISP on Cyprus, Norway, Sweden or China (maybe you know other “safe” countries) please write about it in Comments.

At the same time we will recover the copy of our engine and database. All this takes a few days.

What is most important now? First of all please wait for us! Secondly, please spread the information: at forums, blogs, portals etc. what all latest news about AvaxHome is here, it help us a lot. We depend on your patience and understanding.

Thank You!

source: http://u2n2.com/article.asp?id=56745

very_bad_man

Interesting site that u2n2. Avaxsphere's domain name is listed as Status :locked in whois. can't be a good sign and one I haven't seen before lol. Gfxworld is still Status :OK.

LazyVampire

(news taken from Avax sister site gfxnews):

Last Thursday was a busy day for the Bundeskriminalamt -Federal Criminal Police of Germany as they raided 4 servers of popular warez sites hosted within their nation. The Avax network Avaxhome/Avaxsphere, GfxWorld, & Macfile, were all taken down and seized. Suspicions were verified by E-Mail from the current host of gfxworld, keyweb.de. in saying that "the website was taken down per legal order by the German authorities and we cannot give out any other details. As of this time we may not allow further hosting of this site on our servers and there is no comment as to whether or not it will be back online".

The 4 sites in question were formerly affiliated with now defunct modestus.org, also forcibly shut down due to gfx sharing. This is the first push on non P2P sharing sites in Germany since 2007 and the reasons are speculated to be due to the regular release of fonts and the sites' new use of Feedburner RSS pushing them far higher on Google search than the actual creators.

Neither the other hosts nor the site owners have replied to comment on it.

live4starbucks

wow. thanks for the update

emanone

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slimsl

thanks guys