getting into sites requiring a subscribtion

**cheema** · 08-14-2006

k, if you add /archive/index.php to the end of a site requesting a subscribtion it may allow you to enter the site's forums without having to pay, i'm not sure whether it is against the law to do so, and if it is please tell me. So far the only site i know it works on for sure is http://www.skryer.com. I'm sorry if this has been posted previously. I'm posting it for 2 reasons, 1) it may help you out and 2) i want to know whether it's legal (can someone get into trouble for doing this). I'm new to this kind of thing and i got a 404 warning stating that i will be severely punished and that the attempt to use it has been logged, i won't name the site's name for certain reason.. So i must know, does this pose a threat to me, i mean other than a ban, is there any other penalty for doing this?

PS this /archive/index.php does work on certain sites, so far i have only used it on http://www.skryer.com actually i clicked on a link to it from google and it allowed me to access the site, even before i knew it was a subscribtion site.

the site is http://www.skryer.com/archive/index.php/f-19.html

notice the /archive/index.php i'm new ti this, if i haven't mentioned it before, but this appears to have a similar response to typing /success.html to the end of certai sites.

**thestupidguy** · 08-14-2006

doesn't work. At least on the site you listed above.

yes you can get a step further by actually seeing the forums and topic titles in some cases, but try and get into the actual topics. It still requires you to have a subscription to see it. So unless you want to just read topic titles that make you wish you knew what was in side, its useless.

**cheema** · 08-14-2006

Originally Posted by thestupidguy

doesn't work. At least on the site you listed above.

yes you can get a step further by actually seeing the forums and topic titles in some cases, but try and get into the actual topics. It still requires you to have a subscription to see it. So unless you want to just read topic titles that make you wish you knew what was in side, its useless.

but you see, it does allow you to read the topics, as well as what's inside. That is what concerns me, does it break any laws doing something of this sort? In my opinion it is no worse than doing /success.html in order to prove certain links/exploits are scams, however, this allows you to get information other people pay for, for free. I'm not stating that doing so is right, nor am i stating that doing so is wrong, but does it, in any way, seem illegal?

**thestupidguy** · 08-14-2006

ah ic. It does work in some cases. At least in the site you listed above, I tried getting into the Elite forum for WOW and it didn't work. Need an extra subscription to get in there. but the others do. But everything in them are over a year old.

**Avianar47** · 08-14-2006

eh, i have to say this is cool as crap, seeing as how i didnt know some of these exploits, even if they are old, they may not have been nerfed. and concerning the legality of this, im sure its gonna be fine, they cant really do anything to u, i wouldnt think

**~~Demonkunga~~** · 08-14-2006

This doesnt work for real, yes you can get to this page:
http://www.skryer.com/forumdisplay.php?f=42
but click on a link, like say:
http://www.skryer.com/showthread.php?t=1016

it doesnt work .. heh

**Zentek** · 08-15-2006

If you go on the site itself without the /archive/index.php you will see that you can see the free exploits. You can't see the exploits that you have to pay for with the /archive/index.php those are the ones that are greyed out :P