Hey guys.
I'm going to share some tricks with you that I havn't told anybody else on the net before. They're advanced search techniques you might not yet know about, but they work great.

The first tip is called "The power of blog search".

As you might know, rapidshare and other sites will delete copyrighted material when someone complains. So what you want to find is the latest upload of that material to rapidshare. Google search has some lag, which is a design issue: sites need to accumulate pagerank to become top results.

However, Google has a somewhat hidden "Blog search" which totally makes up for that. Go to Google, click on "more", then go to "blog search". Then search for your favourite album and sort by date.

Google Blog-Search sorted by date (Bookmark this! If your browser has 'smart bookmarks', insert %s after the q= to make it a search bookmark).

You might have seen that I added missing passwords to some posts here: all I did was to copy the album title into Google Blog-Search, pick a post that looked similar and boom, I had the password within a minute.

Good extra search words are "rapidshare", "download", "mp3" and similar. So if you e.g. want to search for "candyman", search for "candyman rapidshare" instead. You should have a working download link in the top 10 results (and you bet that C.A. and her record company are trying to get all the copies on rapidshare down!)

Ok, ray, THAT desevs a "thank you" line. hahaha
This special way to thank all the music you get in here is supreme. I'd trade lot's of "Thanks, Oak" to innformations like that.
Ok, not ALL ;)

All of you probably know that rapidshare has rather strict quotas. After downloading 100 MB you usually have to wait like 90-120 Minutes.

However, this is per-IP. So how do you change your IP or get extra ones?

One possibility is to disconnect and redial. My provider will give me a different IP on each login. However, this would interrupt all other downloads I still have in progress, so this is kind of inconvenient (and since I share the connection with others, it would also kill their skype calls etc. )

Warning: Technical Blah-Blah ahead

If you have access to some proxy server OR Unix servers with free bandwidth (e.g. a rental server with flat traffic or university computers), you have additional options. Route the download through there.

This works as follows: first you need to get the access information for the proxies (protocol, host, port) or setup an SSH tunnel connection. Secondly, you setup your browser (or downloader) to (temporarily) use this proxy, then you start the download. You usually can change your proxy back after starting the download.

If your provider has a proxy server that is optional, that probably means you can easily double your rapidshare free downloads! (Well, unless other customers are already using the proxy. :-) )

Now the advanced part: using arbitrary Linux systems you have an account on.

(Windows servers will probably be harder to use for this, since they don't come with SSH preinstalled; but pretty much every Unix/Linux system has SSH. Using the VPN capabilities of Windows might in turn interrupt your other downloads!)

To use SSH for a proxy connection, login to the server you have access to (note the -D part), e.g.

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ssh -D 9999 myusername@myserver.tld

Then set your proxy to a socks5 proxy on localhost, port 9999. See attached screenshot for the settings.
(You can probably do this from windows with Putty or SecureCRT, I don't know - I'm a Linux user.)

So if you can login into 10 computers at your university, you can probably increase your rapidshare free download volume by 10 times. And fortunately, our university is pretty much all-Linux (which btw, means microsoft is going to be in huge trouble in 10 years when all the IT guys and engineers have been trained on linux only!).

Your administrators at the university might/will hate you for this, but they'll need to be rather clever to actually trace it back to you - because you are not running any application on their computer!
If they have similar traffic conditions as we do here, they might not care. Or if you are one of the administrators (like I am, kind of), you're fine off.

Sorry that this is kind of advanced - it's not difficult, but you need to be a Linux user (or find out how to do it with Putty or SecureCRT). And of course you need to have logins on Unix servers on the net.

Free/Open proxies are probably not an option; their bandwidth will be too low to be of much use.

Here's my band of computers handling my rapidshare downloads

P.S. the first tip of course works best for stuff that is really mainstream. If you ought to be lucky if anyone uploads it to his blog, you'll have a hard time. Or need to be quite clever.

Searching for "Neo-Swing rapidshare" will give you a download link for "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Americana Deluxe". Anyone interested?

Update: this seems to actually be the first album in the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy post, usually called "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy" (the 1998 version). Kind of a name to avoid name clashes with the 1994 album called "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy"... a pity. (insert crying+dying emoticon here)

hahahahaahahaha
Man, this a fuccccking rare album!
It's so underground that we would need a shovel to dig and find it :)

Thank You this is wonderful

Thank U RaY. Very usefull

http://rraycast.googlepages.com/search

A small toy page, which uses the Google AJAX API to search for music downloads. Sometimes this works very well, sometimes it doesn't... For example, if you search for B-B-King, the results seem to be good... searching for Janet-Klein on the other hand doesn't return anything. But maybe there are just not many people offering download for Janet.

If you search for something really popular, let's say, "Linkin-Park", it seems to give very good results.

Sorry, the Google Pages Layout options kind of messed up the page... can we maybe put it on anyswing.com instead?

ray i just read this on digg, how does this affect things
When you make a search on Google, your ip address, the time, and what you searched for is stored in their database forever and this information can be used in a court of law against you. Google will willingly allow authorities to consult their database, they already did as you can see in the video below. When you search on Google through Googlonymous, it is Googlonymous that goes on Google and does the search for you, the only ip address that Google will see, is the ip address of the server of Googlonymous. Googlonymous does not keep any record who searched for what. So this way, it is completely impossible to retrieve your identity. You can search for whatever you want without a care in the world, 100% anonymously.
link http://googlonymous.com/ this is not an advert for this site by me just curious on the recording of our ip etc. thanks

raycast wrote:http://rraycast.googlepages.com/search

Works rather well!

that's good info guys, thanks! In this era of decreased freedom in America, it is improtant to stay on your toes. Maybe one day, the government here will stop criminalizing innocent people and stop trying to control behavior with laws.

t99: in that video, it seems they didn't even have to consult Google, they could just use the data that was stored on his computer. Think Autocompletion. Was it Internet Explorer or Firefox that would keep a list of strings you previously typed into the search field?
I think on the long run I'll actually setup something here that will automatically use an anonymizing proxy for most of my web browsing... right now, I have to manually switch between anon and non-anon.

In my country it isn't illegal to download music only the uploading is against the law. Even downloading an 'illegal link' isn't illegal. There were several lawsuits against people but only against the ones who were the owners of p2p sites or users of p2p sites who 'shared' lots of music on their computers (p2p is when you open up your computer for others to download music directly from it).

You are allowed to make a copy for your own benefit so there is a simple trick if you are really afraid: the one who is uploading an album is somebody else than the one who provides the link at a forum. In that case you can always say you were uploading it for yourself to make a copy. And the other person can argue he 'found' the link somewhere and just sharing the information and not the music...

Dan: DON´T LIE TO THE LAW!!!!!!!!!



Is funny: in my country ARGENTINA, everything is possible. All people can "steal", can "DOWNLOAD", can "take things from other people" and nobody do anything!!!!! Cops are a shame, justice is a shame, policy is a shame... WE ARE A FREEEEEE COUNTRY

So we'll just let Berni do all the uploading.

/me runs for cover and hides.

raycast wrote:So we'll just let Berni do all the uploading.

/me runs for cover and hides.

FIRST TIME THAT RAYCAST CALLS ME BY MY NAME!!!!! THANK GOD!!!



We´ll never be a couple, darling...

Berni Dressel wrote:We´ll never be a couple, darling...

Don't think so. Because that is not how I look like:


Or maybe because I just don't like 'calling you names'?

Back to the topic: Check out http://tor.eff.org/
Tor + Privoxy is a privacy proxy & anonymous routing combo that should make it very hard to find out your real identity. Unless of course every kid sees you on TV in the comic channel anyway.

Back off-topic: can we add
as an emoticon for Berni maybe?

raycast wrote:

Berni Dressel wrote:We´ll never be a couple, darling...

Don't think so. Because that is not how I look like:


Or maybe because I just don't like 'calling you names'?


Back off-topic: can we add
as an emoticon for Berni maybe?

THIS is the humor I like! You can´t be a robot everytime, sometimes each one needs to be a little human too...


You makes me happy with this joke, buddy




Did You receive my PM?

That is why it is a good idea not to use the artist or title in the file name so Rapidshare & others will have a harder time deleting it.