ShareReactor.Com/Conspiracy
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The ShareReactor Conspiracy
What is the truth about Sharereactor site, the reasons it was closed, and did the previous owner Christian Riesen - who refers to himself as - "Simon Moon" tell us the entire truth?
At the time Sharereactor was closed down, Simon Moon had over $12,000 of public user funds which were donated towards purchasing a new server. Since his alledged arrest, none of the money has been returned to any of the donators nor has Simon offered to return the money.
For several weeks, during the month of March, Simon was not online nor was he communicating with anybody in the p2p community.
THE "NEWS STORY" ABOUT SIMON MOON'S ARREST -- REAL?
Then a "news story" appeared on a free hosted "geocities" type website claiming that Simon Moon was arrested. The story was originally posted at
http://scsr.netfirms.com/sr.html
To prove to you that the domain site that contained the "news" above is BOGUS, and is owned and controlled by Simon Moon, I suggest you take a look at http://scsr.netfirms.com
The boyz, girlz and mods at Sharereactor back up their IRC conversations at this unsecure free domain where anybody can see the IP addresses (within the logs) of the IRC users and read the transcripts of the conversations. Example: http://scsr.netfirms.com/adsl.htm
This original "Simon Moon arrested" story made its way to several p2p forums and portals, including SLYCK, P2PNET.NET, P2PFORUMS, etc. Many people believe that Simon has used his connections on the p2p circuit to bullshit the entire file sharing community into believing that he really was arrested.
Was "Simon Moon" really arrested?
Well, depends on who you talk to. But please pay close attention to the facts provided before, with the proof, and then come to your own conclusions.
1) RESPECTP2P.ORG, Simon's new p2p forum, is registered to Simon Moon.
Domain Name:RESPECTP2P.ORG Created On:17-Nov-2003 12:28:25 UTC
The domain "Respectp2p.org" was obtained on November 17th 2003, which is 5 months prior to Sharereactor being closed down. Did Simon plan this? Simon says that he created RESPECTP2P.ORG because of what happened to Sharereactor (as if he purchased the domain AFTER he was closed down...)
In a thread (respectp2p.org/thread.php?threadid=2&sid=03def41fc2ab7d5a74156e17f7e6d6cc) you will find Simon claiming this:
RespectP2P.org is started because of ShareReactor's case[/u], but is not limited to it. Here i and the people that join along the ride, will tell you what happened to them. You hear what lots people dont want you to hear. You will read what corporations dont want you to read. And you will learn what you can do to help.
So something here doesn't add up cause I clearly show that respectp2p.org was in fact started, or at least the domain purchased, 5 months ahead of time (unless???)...
But then that is just the beginning of a very wild ride. So please put on your thinking cap and walk with me...
Read this "diary" thread, that includes dates and times regarding the events that led to the turning off of Sharereactor: www.respectp2p.org/thread.php?threadid=4
You will see that Simon Moon claims the following:
Simon was held in custody... During the lunch hours, from 12:00 to 13:15 i was not allowed to go home, because i "could destroy evidence". So i was put into a cell and served some food that had a resemblance to spaghetti.
== "Authorities" take Sharereactor down... ==
ShareReactor.com got taken offline by authorities, due to suspicion of infringement of copyright laws and trademark laws. The mainservers, all backups and two personal computers have been taken.
The "Raid" on Simon's home...
At the end of the day, at 17:00 the judge leading the investigation was convinced there is something wrong with me, after reading only the first part of the protocol (everything that was said before lunch) and ordered a raid on my house. They came home with me and took the Main Webserver of SR, the main database server of SR, my private machine and the private machine of my girlfriend. Also, they took ALL my backups i had, my folder with all my bank things, and everything i had about my hardware shopping
== Now here is where it gets problematic for Simon and his lies start revealing themselves. ==
Simon Says...
So i got orderd to shutdown everything, and did so by taking offline the forum (that still is existing out there, just offline). I also removed all DNS entries in my servers, so its impossible to reach anything using "sharereactor.com".
If Simon's servers were taken offline, and confisquated by the police, then what DNS entries did he remove? I mean he claims that the authorities held him in their eyesight, and even put him in a jail cell to prevent him from "erasing evidence". Do you think the police would allow Simon to erase material from his own servers? Its not necessary to erase DNS entries, rather all the police need to do is pull the computer out of the electricity and boom, the DNS entries no longer apply to the internet.
Also, Simon claims that he himself changed the DNS entries to prevent his machines from pointing to Sharereactor material. What Sharereactor content are we talking about if the police took the machines?
Simons claims that the police confiscated ALL OF HIS MACHINES AND ALL OF HIS BACKUPS.
So what DNS entries did he erase? Simon would need to have access to his machines and the police would need to be total idiots to allow him to "erase" evidence from his computers. When police come to your home, they dont ask you what computers to take or not to take. They police simply take everything.
If a cop allowed a "suspect" to erase things from his computer, then you can be sure that the cop is an accessory to a crime. A cop has rules and laws to abide by. Cops are only there to follow a judge's order which is to SEARCH and SEIZE.
Simon Says...
It gets a bit worse, because they took my new computer that i was building at that time, which had NO data in it, i simply hooked in the harddisks that were still in the old computer, because i couldnt afford to buy a new harddisk yet for the new computer. So i just spend a lot of money on a new computer, that was just taken away and then had to spend even more (including a harddisk this time) AGAIN on a new computer to just be able to work. You see the dilemma.
Now Simon claims that they took his "Brand New" computer that costed him alot of money. This is probably him planting the "seed" to explain later where the $12,000 for a new server went.
Just remember that Simon himself said that he didnt even have money for a new hard drive, so don't let him sell you any shit about paying $12,000 for a computer with no hard drive.
My question is "where is the $12,000" in donations, and other tens of thousands he made in popups? ISP fees? Come on, that doesn't even make sense. I'll explain in PART II why that doesn't make sense.
What is JIGLE.COM connection to Sharereactor?
Jigle.com was hosted by the Sharereactor servers. For those of you who dont know, Jigle offered the same thing that Sharereactor offered, only on a different format. The owner of "Jigle.com" resolves as a guy named Christian Shnell from Germany, but then I think that is just a cover cause in reality, Jigle.com was in fact hosted on Sharereactor servers / IP addresses.
Nevertheless, pay attention now how I prove that Sharereactor servers were NEVER CONFISQUATED.
Simon was supposably "arrested" and his computers "confisquated" on Mar 10th, 2004.
Go to jigle.com and check out the note.
2004/03/17 -- Sorry, this service is closed.
The ShareReactor has been shut down due to legal issues (if you speak german read here) and it is unclear whether and when it will return. Since my servers are hosted there I've decided to shut my services down even though it seems it was decided to kindly leave them running. How could I cause SimonMoon any additional financial costs in the situation he is in now?
How could Jigle.com still be up on Mar 17th if the police had confisquated the Sharereactor servers on Mar 10th?
Now for the real evidence that proves beyond any reasonable doubt in your minds that Simon Moon is full of crap.
Here is a list of domains that all belong to Simon Moon, and are currently hosted on his servers and IP Address.
www.Gomp.net
www.Adragne.com
www.Blackpearltech.com
www.Colexa.net
www.Gamesreactor.net
www.Hentaireactor.net
www.Kormas.net
www.Lightsource.biz
www.Mangareactor.net
www.Prutal.com
www.Respectp2p.org
www.Talkbase.org
The interesting thing is how is Simon hosting so many domains on computers that he claims we're confisquated? Does that make sense?
Anybody can do a WHOIS on any of those domains and see that they all go to the same IP address that used to point to SHAREREACTOR. Not only do they all point to 62.2.249.4, which proves that Simons machines were not confisquated, but also you will find that Simon has more than just one machine running his network cause RESPECTP2P.ORG is at IP address 62.2.156.245 (which means that he has more than just one machine).
I thought Simon told us that the police took ALL OF HIS MACHINES and LEFT HIM WITH NO MACHINES and/or BACKUP???
But then that isnt even the half of it. At this link, www.respectp2p.org/thread.php?threadid=4 Simon claims that the following:
"I found out later, about 2 days, that my bank account was frozen.
Lets sum this up: All my data has been bagged, the computer i used to work with, the private machine off my girlfriend that had all our pictures on it we did with our digicam in the past year, the page that brought in the most money at this very point taken offline, and i should continue to exist without income, big bills (which were because of sharereactor) and not even a bank account."
Haha, caught in another lie. On March 18th, just 8 days after Sharereactor was taken offline, we find that Simon purchased several domain names, and made various updates to other domain names that he owns.
He claims that he didnt have any computers, nor did he have access to his "bank accounts", yet here is your proof that Simon was busy buying, updating, and controlling his domains.
How could Simon purchase a domain name online if he had no bank account / credit card? That doesnt make sense either.
Remember, during this time, Simon was not posting on any forums. He was totally silent. But this also proves that he did in fact have access to the internet.
Simon also made some minor updates in his other domain names. For example, if you do a WHOIS for TALKBASE.ORG, you will see that he owns the domain and made a minor update on May 18th 2004
Domain Name:TALKBASE.ORG Created On:11-Jan-2003 04:08:10 UTC Last Updated On:18-May-2004 09:14:35 UTC
GAMESREACTOR.NET is owned by Simon as well and was updated on MAY 14th, 2004. Wow, Simon claims to have no computer, but is busy online making other domain name adjustments and adding them to his network?
Administrative Contact:
Riesen, Christian simon at gomp dot net
Thundorferstrasse 146b
Frauenfeld, TG 8500
Switzerland
527215623
Fax --
Registered through: GoDaddy.com Domain Name: GAMESREACTOR.NET
Created on: 05-Jun-03
Expires on: 05-Jun-09
Last Updated on: 14-May-04
Simon also made similar adjustments to:
Domain Name: HENTAIREACTOR.NET
Created on: 05-Jun-03
Expires on: 05-Jun-09
Last Updated on: 14-May-04
Administrative Contact:
simon at gomp dot net
Now, on Mar 19th, the same week that Simon was "arrested" we see that Simon was busy online building a game site on one of his other domains.
Take a look at kormas.net (read the note of Simon that appears on the front page of Kormas.net).
"Development of Kormas started. Ok, its already running for a few days. I started doing the design and the absic works on wednesday the 19th March 2004."
Simon has no computers, all of his backup is gone, bank accounts are locked, he is being raided by the police, etc., and yet he is busy creating a game site, community forum, etc., on computers that he claims he doesnt have? Sorry, that is just pure horse shit. This proves he had internet connection and a network during that time.
Simon hasnt promoted neither the game site, or new game forums. Its still under construction.
He didnt plan on us finding out that the domain exists, and matching dates.
Funny thing is that Simon has many forums, some that you are not even aware of. They are all there to manipulate user thought and trends. Some relate to p2p while others are for games, commercial internet, etc. Some of Simon's forums: respectp2p.org, gomp.net, forum.blackpearltech.com, and more.
You see, Simon owns Kormas.net as well...
Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: KORMAS.NET
Created on: 01-Mar-02
Expires on: 01-Mar-05
Last Updated on: 21-Feb-04
Administrative Contact:
simon at gomp dot net
Now, pay attention to what Simon says... www.respectp2p.org/thread.php?threadid=4
The next day i got a lawyer, and got called again to the investigation judge. Someone made a post in the then still running SR forum. I was asked if i talked to those people, and i said no.
I was not allowed to talk anyone. I was orderd to shutdown everything that could be reachable through sharereactor.com. I couldnt have an attorney with me.
So i got orderd to shutdown everything, and did so by taking offline the forum (that still is existing out there, just offline). I also removed all DNS entries in my servers, so its impossible to reach anything using "sharereactor.com".
Take a look at this site that is owned by Simon: colexa.net/category.php?id=1
Look similar to what Sharereactor was doing? Pretty nifty heh?
Btw, the SR forums are still up, just hosted under a different name to host them forum.blackpearltech.com (I showed you above that blackpearltech.com is owned by Simon) so I guess Simon really doesnt care what the judge says. All Simon did was change the skin of the forum, but all of the original Sharereactor threads and posts are there. If Simon has the forums up under a different name, then why not the entire Sharereactor site? I will supply the answer later.
This is part I of a series.
btw, I've backed up (screen shots) everything so that Simon cant change anything.
One last thing. As I have shown you above, Simon has purchased domains and even made domain name changes. The only domain name that Simon has not touched is Sharereactor.
If the Swiss Government took control of Sharereactor.com, then the domain would reflect a change, and the "administration" and "technical" contact info would have been changed.
Also, if the Swiss Gov had control of Sharereactor, then the domain would not be pointing to the Domain Name Server "GOMP.NET" that belongs to Simon. This proves that Sharereactor still belongs and is in the control of Simon. If Simon wanted Sharereactor back up today, it would be back up in 5 minutes.
Simon obviously has computer servers, equipment and a servicing ISP.
Just to show you that Sharereactor.com WHOIS information
Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: SHAREREACTOR.COM
Created on: 16-Nov-01
Expires on: 16-Nov-13
Last Updated on: 23-Feb-04
Administrative Contact:
simon at gomp dot net
Technical Contact:
simon at gomp dot net
Domain servers in listed order:
DNS1.GOMP.NET
DNS2.GOMP.NET
- You will notice that the last time that Sharereactor.com was extended for an extra 10 years, the same exact day that RESPECTP2P.ORG was purchased which was on Nov. 17th. Also, when Sharereactor.com was updated in Feb, so was RESPECTP2P.ORG. So you can see that one is definately connected to the next.
Domain Name:RESPECTP2P.ORG Created On:17-Nov-2003 12:28:25 UTC Last Updated On:26-Feb-2004 09:17:58 UTC
Anyway, it will be interesting (as I will show in PART II) what those domains are there for and really why Sharereactor was taken down, and what purpose it will serve in the future (financially for Simon). Pay attention to the patterns!
If Simon was in fact arrested, the first thing that would have happened is the authorities would have turned to his ISP. The ISP would have taken Simon's IP addresses and internet access away from him. Authorities never contact the webmaster until they have contacted the ISP to confirm that the site really is owned and controlled by the person who is in the WHOIS info. How is Simon's ISP still giving him internet service on the same IP addresses and network?
Part II will be published as soon as Simon digs himself another hole by answering this post.
Small Questions... (even though I know the answers)
1) Where is the $12,000 US dollars that was donated for a new server?
2) How is Simon hosting over 17 domains on a network if he has no computers?
3) Why was Simon silent for over 2 months, and only surfaced back online to attack earthreactor for hosting the Sharereactor database?
4) Is the purpose of Sharereactor being turned off, and the alledged "arrest", a ploy for a new game site that will require people to pay using the popular name Sharereactor?
U suck ... the "bust" of Moon was in the switzer newspapers ..... and i think that u can have access to servers also without "owning" them.
Only suckers believed him... this was obvious from the getgo...
Haha. What sort of dummies would believe this tripe? New Swiss article: http://www.schaffhausen.ch/expressonline/default.asp?navi_link=exonlinedetail&ID=1943
- Translation? Webfork
This conspiracy isn't even accurate on very simple things, like the amount of the donations and what they were supposed to be used for. If you look here (sharereactor's old forum, at a temporary domain, without edonkey links): forum.blackpearltech.com/viewtopic.php?p=980858#980858 and here: forum.blackpearltech.com/viewtopic.php?p=980667#980667 you see people referring to the just completed donations drive being for 8,000 USD, not 12,000. The other thousands were more like 5.5, which brings the total to more like 14,000 USD, and they were for a new line that had double the speed for a third of the price. The line was in fact installed, and if you were particularly snoopy you could have watched Simon's IP addresses change over that time as he changed ISP's. Simon posted a news about this at the time, saying:
Thanks for the donations (08.12.2003 08:05:01) from Simon Moon I am stunned. Again. 425 people donated 5566.37 USD to the new line of ShareReactor (details still available here). Thanks a lot to all of you. Now, what's going to happen exactly? I just got off the phone with the ISP, they will send me the contracts in print in the next 2 days. From there it's a bit cloudy to say the least, since it's the end of the year. After talking a bit, I got this much information: the new line will most likely be completely up and running in January, not before. Also it might be done in the first week of January if all goes well, or when it doesnt work out so well, at the end of January, latest. That is not my new ISP's fault, it's because of our local telecom, who still monopolizes the last mile and takes their sweet time to do their job (officially 3 - 5 weeks!). I will update you as soon as there is an update (like I get the installation in here) but that will take a while as explained above. So thanks again and I cant wait for the new line to make SR a lot faster again :)
It can be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/20031218001607/http://sharereactor.com/
If the conspiracy isn't even accurate on that fact, what else did it screw up? If you know anything about the technical aspects of running several webpages and servers, the whole conspiracy starts to look pretty ridiculous.
Further, take note of this line at the end: 3) Why was Simon silent for over 2 months, and only surfaced back online to attack earthreactor for hosting the Sharereactor database?
This is inaccurate. The first thing Simon did when he spoke publicly again was not to attack earthreactor, and really, what does earthreactor have anything to do with anything at all? Certainly earthreactor has nothing to do with whether or not sharereactor is under investigation or not, but maybe it reveals the true reason for this "conspiracy theory". Look here to see why someone from EarthReactor might have a grudge against SimonMoon: respectp2p.org/thread.php?threadid=42&sid=0fd2cbf94bb0cb92db93fd152593850f and do some research about EarthStation 5 and the people behind it and "EarthReactor". Try not to be distracted about how the people who support earthreactor keep saying Simon's complaining about the database and the links, and remember that Simon said in his first post that "They wanted ShareReactor.com as domain, the SR scripts, the database and all its containing datas. That includes of course the forum." That's a bit more than just the edonkey links, which were available on different mirror sites after the closure of SR. Even just a domain is worth more than $0, and certainly hours of work that went into programming ShareReactor are worth more than $0.
I still would like to see where claims were made that "the police confiscated ALL OF HIS MACHINES AND ALL OF HIS BACKUPS". All i can find is this little part: "They came home with me and took the Main Webserver of SR, the main database server of SR, my private machine and the private machine of my girlfriend. Also, they took ALL my backups i had, my folder with all my bank things, and everything i had about my hardware shopping." Ok, thats two servers and two workstatations, not "ALL MACHINES". A pretty specific and important difference. Anyone can undertsnad that something that big runs in a server envoirment that has MORE than 2 servers, mostlikely at least a sperate machine for mails and DNS. And there is no mentioning of that machine or further machines being taken.
Jigle is a nice point. It has its own servers, own ip adresses, that were standing right next to the SR servers, but again, they were not being taken. Big conspiracy there, really, different servers for different things and all in the same location, even with a message on the page that its "powered by" SR on the page, and everyone could see that.
Domains and ips, isnt it fun :) Another server that wasnt confiscated is the "general hosting server", that has all the mentioned domains on them, as they have nothing to do with SR why should they confiscate them? That respectp2p.org runs on another server was precaution and only possible through an generous offer from someone. Weird that such a simple possibility is not mentioned, from someone who wants to be so openminded.
Buying domains is fun. Specially when you buy them with a credit account you had to fill up in advance. Lke one you can have at Godaddy.com. They call it "good as gold" and you might want to read up on it. As there is no credit card involved, it goes fast and painless and is even cheaper than the usual credit card transaction. A good way to buy domainnames, and one you can do without even having money in your pocket or access to your bankaccount. Which by the way, isnt needed to use your credit card either.
The rest is so ridiciouls i wont go into that... Just the questions are interesting:
1) Where is the $12,000 US dollars that was donated for a new server? Its not 12'000, but what are 2k in light of this conspiracy, eh? The server got bought and is now about a year old, without getting any real use out of it, sad sad story. The rest of the 14k went to the new line that is still running. You can check if you want to when the IP adresses changed.
2) How is Simon hosting over 17 domains on a network if he has no computers? How is the creator of this conspiracy breathing without a brain? Selective reading is bad for you. Ther are actually about 25 domains hosted on the servers that were never touched, but thats a bit hard to comprehend.
3) Why was Simon silent for over 2 months, and only surfaced back online to attack earthreactor for hosting the Sharereactor database? Silent because of the statement that wasnt even attacked in this "conspiracy", i got a gag order. Read the above part for the rest of this crap.
4) Is the purpose of Sharereactor being turned off, and the alledged "arrest", a ploy for a new game site that will require people to pay using the popular name Sharereactor? An arrest for about an hour, wow. What would be the sense in this? It would be a stupid plot, turning off SR for 6 months, than letting it rot and then suddenly bringing the site back, but forwarding it to a new project that has nothing to do with it anymore? If SR would compeltely die, this might be something to consider, but isnt surely the purpose of this all.
Anyone with a brain can pick appart this thing in minutes. Even reading the "evidence" that was brought by the person who wrote this makes it very easy to see how stupid this all is.
