Topsite

Topsite is a term coming from English who indicates a Serveur ftp ultra rapid used by groups and mails for the distribution, storage and the filing of illegal contents protected from type Warez.

The topsites have a Band-width ultra rapid which can reach hundreds, if not thousands of megabytes a second; enough to transfer the contents from a complete DVD in one minute. The topsites having also a rate of raised storage, a total of several terabytes is typical.

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Dissimulation

Information on the topsites is not revealed publicly, contrary to their predecessors, the Bulletin Board System (BBS), which are not other than forums Warez. To face the actions of the police force, the managers these sites took precautions in order to remain hidden.

Access to the Chains

The users of the topsite have access to an encrypted chain on IRC which can be reached only starting from one ordering of invitation made since server ftp.

System of appropriations

A system of appropriations or points is founded on the level of these waiters to limit the remote loadings carried out by an individual.

Edict by liberta: Often the service is paying and high with approximately 25 €/mois and the waiter is in free-leech, i.e. that the user who paid little to be useful himself in the base of data as it seems him. IF the service is free one calls a his newsgroup and there are a service of exchange, i.e. quotats (example: 2go of upload against 5 of download).

Webmasters

Topsites, or Toplistes are also Web pages which classify several sites according to the rate of visitors that they send on the topsite. For example http://www.1-sponsor.com/topsites/ is a topsite making it possible its members this to make known.

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