PSPBlender.com and other scams.....
By
Niel Blanc:
So I got myself a PSP. The slickest, most prettiest piece of
electronics I've ever laid eyes on. While checking out info on how to
run a Super Nintendo emulator on the thing (yeah, even firmware 2.6 can
handle an eLoader via an exploit in Grant Theft Auto: Liberty City) I
ran into a website called PSPBlender.com, that offered, for the low low
price of $37 dollars american, to provide me with unlimited lifetime
access to hundreds of PSP games, movies, and music, from their ever
expanding library. Plus, they promise it's all legal!
So I go to check out the sign up features, and it tells me that I'd
better hurry, this is the LAST DAY of this offer! So I figure what the
hell, and I give it a go. What do I get for this?
A link to a program I could have downloaded for free anyway, called
eMule. eMule is a peer to peer file sharing application that appears to
access networks lush with PSP downloadable content, none of which is
actually legal. I immediately knew I had been duped, but there was
nothing I could do about it. I issued a complaint to the Better
Business Bureau regarding PSPBlender.com and it's apparent parent
company (or at least registrar), NightSide, but who knows what that
will amount to. So I'm leaving it up to you, good reader. Remember this
and do NOT let it happen to you or anyone else you know. Too good to be
true? It probably is.
I went back to the site today to see if anything had changed, and
one thing had. Today is now the last day to get your hands on this once
in a life time offer. Somehow I think tomorrow will be too. And the
next day... and the next day......
I checked out eMule's site, since I was going to tell them that
PSPBlender.com was selling their free software, and they've already got
a page set up for just these kinds of scams. Apparently there are a lot
of them. Under the GPL of the software, anybody can compile the source
code and resell it legally, which seems to be what these guys have
done.
Anyway, just a little note to hopefully save you all a bit of money.