absolutely true
Nice throwaway. Care to contribute anything useful to the conversation?
Money wasn't the issue. The owner said so themselves. The owner apparently just "got tired of running it." Conveniently, that was after receiving over a thousand dollars in crypto donations. Also, the donation goal was updated manually, so who knows how much was actually donated.
My point exactly you can only wonder how much "Extra" he got in all those ransoms over all that time and i wont be suprised if it comes back up or smth after some time when the piggybank goes empty but then again one can only speculate and guess if its true or not .-.
Yup. It was made out "Money" was the issue all previous times and the only time this changed is when the sudden "I have got tired of it" came out of nowhere quite fast. I noticed on a couple of occasions the donations were not even half full on the last day to be able to help towards it and it suddenly always leaped up to the needed goal right before the end, so he had plenty of money backed up, he just did not want to pay for the costs himself and only done so on the absolutely desperate of times when the website was about to go down. From there you can summarise he had to do it more and more and decided to close it all down as it was costing him what he gathered in donations, instead of him earning from it, which he wanted to keep for himself.
That's the risk taken though. Even if you knew the owner's personal information, what are you going to do, take legal action against the one that was helping you illicitly access content?
Well it really rough at it current state. So we need to wait it out for awhile
