This has nothing to do with Iranian Government. The ftp mentioned are for education/research organization. I grew up in a third world country, we use to have a ftp like this in my university for all kind of software for students. Most of these research/education institutes are under funded and usually the sys admin will think piracy is the best way around it.
This could be just a box in the Iranian government's network which got hacked and hijacked into serving warez.
I once worked as sysadmin in a brazilian university, and it was quite common to stumble on unmaintained and hacked boxes serving warez or movies via FTP with dir hierarchies like /path/to/ftp/root/--==tagged-by-this-group==--/--==uploaded-by-that-group==--/warez/.
The truth of the matter is that there is no way to ' plug the hole '. Any carefully thought out business model will attribute for theft by there market share.
If there was a real need to locate every pirated file in the world, there would be no country left un-touched.
I like Iran for its particular attitudes of liberalism and just plain being real. Who the hell would buy a copy of photoshop, when you can get a few bullet proof vests, a weeks worth of groceries, and a tank of gas for the same price.
Software piracy is not the way to go; yet I think Peter Griffin made the best argument [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhThhrd_UY ]. The famous two strong words "Come On... Come On..."
I am leery of an article posting about warez on an Iranian server and then providing links. Downloading files from an Iranian server is sure to ping some monitors as well as generate some hits on federal systems. It could create a lot of work, or cover for cyber ops.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 28.1 ms ] threadI once worked as sysadmin in a brazilian university, and it was quite common to stumble on unmaintained and hacked boxes serving warez or movies via FTP with dir hierarchies like /path/to/ftp/root/--==tagged-by-this-group==--/--==uploaded-by-that-group==--/warez/.
The truth of the matter is that there is no way to ' plug the hole '. Any carefully thought out business model will attribute for theft by there market share.
If there was a real need to locate every pirated file in the world, there would be no country left un-touched.
I like Iran for its particular attitudes of liberalism and just plain being real. Who the hell would buy a copy of photoshop, when you can get a few bullet proof vests, a weeks worth of groceries, and a tank of gas for the same price.
Software piracy is not the way to go; yet I think Peter Griffin made the best argument [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhThhrd_UY ]. The famous two strong words "Come On... Come On..."