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Stop ripping off the scene PS2NFO!

Posted Sep 25, 2006 at 09:08AM by Pranav Listed in: PlayStation Portable
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While we bloggers can differentiate a good site from a bad one, we generally aren't vocal about it. Normal users can rant all day, but when we make a statement, it is counted as an official stand of the parent website. While this is normal, we do feel restricted in a way... We can't warn the people against other "bad" sites because of the sole reason that it would cause nothing but in-fighting in the scene.

But it gets different when some sites start to rip-off other people's great work and modifying it for their own glory. A few hours ago, I got a humble request from Mathieulh, Dark_Alex and harleyg. It was about the fact that a certain site, PS2NFO, was editing the readme files of homebrew releases to remove their names from the credits section. It seems that they even went to the lengths of hex-editing the applications to remove the names of Fanjita, Skylark, psp250 and Mathieulh, all of whom have been hugely responsible to get the PSP homebrew scene where it is today.

That's still not all. We also noticed the fact that the PS2NFO admin started impersonating Dark_Alex in their forums to get more glory. Mathieulh, Dark_Alex and harleyg wanted us to put this statement up on our site. Here's the official statement:

"Dark_AleX never goes to PS2NFO and never will. PS2NFO go as low as impersonating developers to make themselves seem exclusive. They lie to everyone and steal credits. They impersonated Dark_AleX several times despite our warning on Maxconsole. When people post that Dark_AleX is a fake on their forums, they just delete the post and continue to make it look like he is the real one.

Because we fear for the sake of the entire scene due to such behaviour, we have no choice but to warn as many people as possible. They also remove credits from the people they banned such as Mathieulh. When the libtiff helloworld was released, they hex edited the tiff to remove all credits apart from NOPx86. Fanjita, Skylark and psp250's name was removed. We hope they won't repeat such lame acts again and they will leave the PSP scene alone"


Now in case they think of editing their posts after seeing this, we have proof of them doing these malicious acts:

Proof - Image 1

Proof - Image 2



Now while this might be surprising to most of you people, we were not surprised. In fact, Fanjita had this to say in one of his posts in our forums:

"Bleh, standard practise from that site. Low pirate scum, the lot of 'em."


Here's what PS2NFO had to say after news spread that they were impersonating Dark_Alex:

"After it ran it's course for a day, we received unconfirmed reports that it wasn't the real Dark_AleX who actually posted the thread. As a result, we posted the IPs logged from the account and an offer to Contact Us for the real Dark_AleX to (re)claim his account here. Until he chooses to, we have now seized the account and I will personally use it in his absence on our boards. Not much more we can do at this"


Now while I cannot give an official statement regarding this, you guys should realise how we at QJ feel about PS2NFO. Our advice to everyone here: Stop going to that site and make sure to get untampered homebrew from any of the rest of the sites, especially from http://dl.qj.net. And make sure to spread the message to your friends!

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26 Comments (20 Unregistered comments)


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 1. 

a big boooooooh to ps2nfo

by slippersuck (Unregistered), at Sep 25, 2006 at 10:05AM

 2.  » PS2nfo Clonners

I dont like ps2nfo system credits and system clone Dark_Alex

by Nomo (Unregistered), at Sep 25, 2006 at 10:18AM

 3.  » ***** PS2NFO.

Seriously, ***** them. Those *****ing scammers. Hope they get what's coming to them.

by , at Sep 25, 2006 at 10:33AM

 4.  » Greetings...

You might want to check PS2NFO for Releases made by Fou-Ryu / Coldbird (me...).

All my Releases got stolen from them... they altered my Readme to remove all Greetings to Mathieulh, jas0nuk, ect... And removed Links to Sites I sponsored...

Now that is lame... And they even removed my Contact-Info... So noone could get in Contact with me...

And you see that old Blade Dancer SGE R1 Release they posted?
It was a internal WIP Release I did... they somehow got their hands on it and leaked it on their Website -.-

And when I finally released the real public final Version... they just said "Coldbird has updated his Blade Dancer SGE to R2" - WTF UPDATE? IT WAS THE FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE!!

And of course... I got banned in their Boards so I cant tell teh Peaple over there what PS2NFO really is doing... -.-

My Tip... stay away from there...

by Coldbird (Unregistered), at Sep 25, 2006 at 10:42AM

 5.  » Oh btw...

If you want my UNALTERED releases... you would do best to check coldbird.lan.st

Its my Webhost powered by Mathieulh... its the only place where you can 100%ly get my unmodified releases...

by Coldbird (Unregistered), at Sep 25, 2006 at 10:48AM

 6.  » harder than a crack ho lookin for her first bag of the day

So, ps2nfo are actively impersonating scene members according to their website!! OH MY GOD, can they get much lower? Doubftul.

I'd be surprised if there isnt a major boycott at that site sooner or later. Oh wait, everyone is too wrapped up in points to want to rock the boat........ Its a damn website ffs that earns revenue from adverts everytime you visit, regardless of whether you actually get the information/help you need.

I've seen so many times 'Dave shared with us' or 'Norman has kindly sent us' and actually knowing Dave/Norman and they havent given ps2nfo anything, those lamers like to make out that all the news came from them when in fact they are usually last to get it. which I suppose is why they have to lie about Dark Alex etc.

by ps2nfo sux monkey ballz (Unregistered), at Sep 25, 2006 at 10:51AM

 7.  » Tried too warn members of their board...

...and strangely enough I got banned. Chuckle

Keep up the brilliant work.

trUsl

by , at Sep 25, 2006 at 12:18PM

 8.  » I dont like board lies people

you have a one clone, but not the original :P

by SiLoSe (Unregistered), at Sep 25, 2006 at 12:48PM

 9. 

Bastards!

by Muratcan , at Sep 25, 2006 at 01:25PM

 10.  » Comment by PS2NFO

PS2NFO: I'm not doubting you Dark_AleX, however, in posting here (this being your first post with us) we have received word that you aren't the real Dark_AleX.

Via: http://*****/forums/showpost.php?p=106536&postcount=25

by , at Sep 25, 2006 at 01:28PM

 11.  » it's been like this forever

This site hasn't changed a bit, from the days when ps2-dev was at its top, till this very day! And the thing i HATE about that site is the lack of self expression, anything u say that seems "dumb" to them, be it the truth, will result in a ban, next thing u know u've got a bunch of ppl that practically act like "zombies" for the sake of not being banned. pure bs...

by Dupree (Unregistered), at Sep 25, 2006 at 01:59PM

 12.  » banned

yeah i got banned when i tried to ask why they took some info off another website they need to stop

by , at Sep 25, 2006 at 02:22PM

 13.  » Dude thats *****ed up

Yea i havent been there heard it was terrible. I got blamed for something on http://www.onehitgamer.com/forum that I didnt do and they banned me I come on the next day I was unbanned then they say he never unbanned me that was bs. You want to know what happened I GOT BANNED AGAIN!! WTF (Those forums belong to sketch the Cheat Master guy.)

by , at Sep 25, 2006 at 02:53PM

 14.  » they do the same to me,

@4/ Coldbird,
they do the exact same thing to me, and probably all the other devs that mention something they dont like

i was reading there rules, and they are so dumb,
(you can post about news they dont know about, for instance)

by Sousanator (Unregistered), at Sep 25, 2006 at 03:24PM

 15. 

sois pateticossssssssss

by liyoo (Unregistered), at Sep 27, 2006 at 01:32PM

 16. 

Dark Alex ooooeeee oe oeoeeeeee

pasando de la mierda, ni caso a esos bastardos. La gente sabemos lo q vales

by otromas (Unregistered), at Sep 27, 2006 at 04:06PM

 17. 

HIJOS D PUTAS, DARK ALEX IS GOD

by alex is god (Unregistered), at Sep 28, 2006 at 07:40AM

 18. 

Capullos integrales, Dark_Alex es el mejor no como vosotros ke sois pura escoria hijos de putaaa, iros a cagar cabrones,...

by lol (Unregistered), at Sep 28, 2006 at 08:10AM

 19. 

That site is full of crap, hope all the guys get the credits and they give up with their crap.

by mig (Unregistered), at Sep 28, 2006 at 04:24PM

 20. 

PS2NFO! *****
Dark_Alex Fans!!!

by Fans Dark_Alex (Unregistered), at Sep 30, 2006 at 03:30AM

 21.  » Chill Out

Whoever the F@*k is doing that chill out already Dark Alex is the best thing that happened to the psp homebrew scene we cant afford to loose him

by xpack (Unregistered), at Sep 30, 2006 at 11:35PM

 22. 

Dark_alex, nunca hagas caso a estos subnormales, yo te apoyo, tu eres un idolo entre los wenos psperos

by bokeronxxl (Unregistered), at Oct 06, 2006 at 03:07PM

 23. 

ijos de puta dark_alex no se merece esto, dark eres el mejor sigue asin yo te apoyo y toda españa tambien, FENOMENO!!

by dark_alex_dios (Unregistered), at Oct 06, 2006 at 05:08PM

 24. 

MOTHER*****ERSSSS!!!!!!

by ??? (Unregistered), at Oct 07, 2006 at 07:30AM

 25.  » PSP User

Appalling !!
I'll post this on psp-haxors too
Mabey our homebrewers should start encrypting there code

by HagisbasherUK (Unregistered), at Jan 06, 2007 at 09:51AM

 26.  » what your name?

""""Dude thats *****ed up
Yea i havent been there heard it was terrible. I got blamed for something on http://www.onehitgamer.com/forum that I didnt do and they banned me I come on the next day I was unbanned then they say he never unbanned me that was bs. You want to know what happened I GOT BANNED AGAIN!! WTF (Those forums belong to sketch the Cheat Master guy.)"""""
is it johnny? who is it? im a admin on onehitgamer.com

by _OwNeD.YoU_ (Unregistered), at Jan 20, 2007 at 01:07PM

 



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