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ProjectW.org OOS

Posted in Tech by Fox on the October 7th, 2005

Before we even start, OOS stands for Out Of Service.
ProjectW.org is a huge forum where people share software, movies, music, anything you can think about. Well not any kind of software: illegal software aka Warez – nothing is perfect. The good thing about it is that it’s regularly updated and dead links are often removed. At first look, its chaos, but you can still find piece of software you won’t find anywhere else, you can even request applications, games and someone could share it.
The site is restructuring the databases, a process that takes a couple of hours usually in “normal” forums. The process has been going on for almost a week now on ProjectW.org, it just reached 75 %, and they must have something like 100,000 users and probably as much posts.

Note: downloading Warez is very bad; proceed with caution – Duh :)

Update 24 Oct 2005
ProjectW.org has been online for a couple of days after database restructuring was over (that was a week ago). It’s been down again ever since without any notice from the administrators of the forum.
In the mean time, you could try visiting one of the following similar ProjectW.org sites:
Warez-bb.Org
Puzo.Org

Read my lame excuse (if you have free waste time):
I only heard of these sites, with one ear not even both LoL
I haven’t visited them, my browser (I.E.) is equipped with anti-warez technology :P
I didn’t download anything: my ISP doesn’t provide a download option ;)
I am innocent of any charge you might accuse me of!!!

What the sites l@@k like at night! - hehe

Update 26 Oct 2005
Good news! ProjectW.org is back on track.
It’s online once again and working properly.

Update 16 Nov 2005
The site is currently OOS. It’s been in that situation for the last couple of days.
The admins are probably facing more problems related to the server stability.

Update 21 Nov 2005
ProjectW.Org is back once again.
ForumW.Org seems to be a good alternative; but for the time being, let’s stick to ProjectW.Org.

Update 17 Apr 2006
ProjectW.Org is OOS. Downtime started yesterday.
I have no information on whether they’ll be back soon or not. They probably will at some point, they always do come back.

Update 20 Apr 2006
Back on duty (once again)!

Update 24 Jun 2007
After a couple of weeks of uncertainty, it really seems ProjectW is dead.
Use Torrents!

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  1. .loser said, on October 24th, 2005 at 4:46 pm

    Well it was up for several days but has mysteriously vanished again.
    No word from projectw.ws either.

    *Thumbs Down*

  2. Nothern said, on October 26th, 2005 at 2:05 am

    They have now posted as to why they are down: ”

    You were probably wondering why we are down again… Our server has been upgraded from 2GB to 4GB RAM, but after the upgrade it became instable and crashes almost instantaneously. It’s most likely because 4GB is the limit of 32-bit addressing, the kernel probably needs a recompile or the memory is faulty.

    We’re also working on an IRC channel to inform you about any maintenance/downtime in the future.

    Support is welcome and I’m sorry for the inconvenience (we’ll be back asap)

    GRIZZ

    Direct from their site.

  3. Nothern said, on October 27th, 2005 at 3:20 am

    Its bacckkkkk.

  4. avarice said, on November 15th, 2005 at 11:59 pm

    Projectw.org is again OOS.

  5. Jack said, on November 17th, 2005 at 4:10 am

    Who cares if pw is down for a week or two just move on to the next warez forum like me I went to http://www.forumw.org/

  6. Nothern said, on November 19th, 2005 at 9:17 am

    Some people dont just surf that forum for the warez man….I try to help out with computer shit when I can….its more or less a community for those wo want to make it one.

  7. Jack said, on March 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pm

    http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=27423588

    Spam or not, this is NOT one person, in fact, it is going to be used for a donation to ProjectW.org, after it is sold off.

    I am looking to donate about $200 to the site, but first need help with this.

    Take it or not, don’t care, but am trying to help the site.

  8. siovale said, on April 17th, 2006 at 12:08 am

    April 16, 2006

    ProjectW is OOS again. Anyone have an update on what’s happening?

    Thanks!

  9. Ming said, on April 20th, 2006 at 10:42 am

    It’s back now

  10. mugtango said, on May 3rd, 2006 at 4:28 pm

    But as of yesterday I can’t find it back (again)

  11. Ema said, on May 3rd, 2006 at 9:06 pm

    Is PW OOS (out of service) again?
    It’s been three days i could not access it…

  12. Mike said, on May 3rd, 2006 at 10:55 pm

    Where is projectw agian? *tears*

  13. laz said, on May 4th, 2006 at 6:40 am

    projectW.ws has no news about .org, but it seems like its down :’(

  14. dissident said, on May 4th, 2006 at 9:56 am

    i can’t live without projectw !

  15. nortoncommander said, on May 4th, 2006 at 7:04 pm

    Any alternatives? Is there any website as nearly as good as projectw?

  16. venkig said, on May 4th, 2006 at 8:02 pm

    I dunno whatz wrong with PW .. itz down again

  17. sTiNkFiSt said, on May 4th, 2006 at 8:40 pm

    NOOOOO……BRING IT BACK

  18. ing said, on May 4th, 2006 at 9:00 pm

    I want projectw BACK!!!!!

  19. guyver said, on May 5th, 2006 at 11:01 pm

    Website states it will be backup within 24hrs

  20. jadakra said, on May 6th, 2006 at 12:38 am

    i typed projectw.org & this appeared:
    Dear members, the database server just had a motherboard replacement as promised.
    This took much longer than expected, but it’s finally working.
    We expect this to solve the instability problems of the past few months.
    We are just waiting for an OS reload right now, this should be finished within 24 hours.

    We’ll be back as usual, and no data loss, hacking or whatsoever has occurred.

    ProjectW Administration

  21. Gregory said, on May 10th, 2006 at 8:20 pm

    Its been 4 days since that was posted. i am a big fan of pw! its just a shame the admins dont update the notice. Especialy if we donated!

  22. HHAA said, on May 11th, 2006 at 8:52 am

    Passed 48 hours ….. … it’s still down. ….. I Want it BACK

  23. guyver said, on May 11th, 2006 at 7:02 pm

    this is the latest report from projectw.org admin:
    Dear members, the database server just had a motherboard replacement as promised.
    This took much longer than expected, but it’s finally working.
    We expect this to solve the instability problems of the past few months.
    We are just waiting for an OS reload right now, this should be finished within 24 hours.

    UPDATE 11 May: Sorry for the late update, I had was very busy past week, so I wasn’t able to look into this. The server is fully operational, but it seems the onboard network card isn’t recognized by Linux. First I had to fix an IRQ conflict, because the NIC had a very strange IRQ. After that it appeared it wasn’t detected because of a driver error. I think there is solution, we are going to compile a custom kernel from source and patch it to support the onboard NIC. I’m confident this will work and we’ll keep you updated. We’ll try to fix it asap, I’m not sure how long a custom compile is going to take. We’ll be back as usual, and no data loss, hacking or whatsoever has occurred.

    ProjectW Administration

  24. Afterburnerltt said, on May 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pm

    Yeah… kernel recompiles can take quite a while sometimes…

    I know some guys who really struggled with it to get wwifi working but if it’s just a kernel problem … might not take so long…

  25. guyver said, on May 16th, 2006 at 4:36 pm

    This is the latest from Projectw.org
    UPDATE 13 May: Tech staff needs to copy a new kernel + kernel source + drivers to my server, after that I can start fixing the network card detection. Although the network connection is down I can still control my server with a KVM over IP switch, which transmits mouse, keyboard and VGA signals over an internet connection. I’m expecting to start working tomorrow, right now I’m just waiting 99% of my time…

    UPDATE 15 May: I’ve managed to get the network driver working, but somehow the routing table is a mess and it can’t even connect to the gateway although the network carlink is working properly. The routing table is a mess so someone from tech support is going to format the box and reinstall the OS. This should take 2 days max.

    In the meanwhile you can visit http://www.uploadgalaxy.com if you would like to upload files.

    We’ll be back as usual, and no data loss, hacking or whatsoever has occurred.

    ProjectW Administration

  26. Afterburnerltt said, on May 18th, 2006 at 5:58 pm

    its back up! Just checked now at 14:30 (GMT +2) and its back.

  27. JLB3 said, on May 18th, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    No, it still down at moment

  28. ricosauvie said, on May 19th, 2006 at 12:39 am

    I tried to get on with my old links and got “critical error” message. does afterburneritt have a good link??

  29. hidimba said, on May 19th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    i just posted for 1st time on projectw.org. there i downloaded a .rar file & it asked for a password. there was no mention of a password on the forum. so i asked for the password on the forum and later found i had been banned. could anybody explain why and how to rejoin?

  30. R4ph4el said, on May 19th, 2006 at 4:24 pm

    I tried checking in today and it seems I have been banned…I can’t think of something I did wrong…no warning whatsoever..
    is this a temporary fault in the database? other people having this problem?

  31. jay said, on December 9th, 2006 at 8:00 am

    i have been banned from forumw.org and prijectw.org are there any other wbesite can someone unbann me i dunno what i did worng

  32. mike said, on December 18th, 2006 at 7:14 pm

    i havent been on projectw for a while and i havent read any stickies so i dont no if its down for maintenance but when i try projectw.org it say
    phpBB : Critical Error

    Could not connect to the database

    is this just me ?

  33. hariscupina said, on January 1st, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    Projectw banned me because of some post I left on forum, evidently I insolted someone, “jaz” nick name, and they baned me for life time.

    Truthfully I did not insolt any on, especialy not “jaz”, but now I cant contact any one from Projectw, they banned my IP.

    Just watch what you write, don’t insolt!

  34. tae said, on January 6th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    thank for all website that you presented.

  35. hariscupina said, on February 5th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    Projectw banned me because of some post I left on forum, evidently I insolted someone, “jaz” nick name, and they baned me for life time.

    Truthfully I did not insolt any on, especialy not “jaz”, but now I cant contact any one from Projectw, they banned my IP.

    Can anyone ask (jaz) to unlock my ip, thank you in advance.

  36. aidil said, on February 22nd, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    same here brader :-( they also banned my ip ..dunno why ? any idea what’s goin on to projectw server ??
    thx for any info :-)

  37. Fox said, on February 22nd, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    @aidil You can access projectw.org although your IP is banned through any proxy site.
    You’ll find a list of those proxy sites on www.proxy.org
    Enjoy!

  38. ReservoirDog said, on February 25th, 2007 at 6:58 am

    Man, i just got banned how long does a banning last

    My Username is ReservoirDog421

  39. aidil said, on February 25th, 2007 at 7:04 am

    thx for info ..btw my admin only allow me using 8080,80,3128 port only :-( they used dansguardian software to protect any user include me to access any site ..that’s why i cannot using proxy :-(

  40. NullSolaris said, on February 26th, 2007 at 4:45 am

    I signed up for there accidentally… I was trying to find out how to write an iPod game… didn’t expect an active warez place…

  41. DenBobo said, on March 3rd, 2007 at 8:59 pm

    Me to I have been banned and I don’t know what I have done wrong. Can somebody explain it to me.

  42. jack said, on March 4th, 2007 at 10:21 am

    ok yeah projectw is down again and i have noticed since they have been allowing ad’s and pop ups on their site that i have been picking up spam off projectw off of that site so check out h2kclan and give me some credit when you sign up my user name is underoath just just use this link www.h2kclan.com/forum/index.php?ref=Underoath

  43. lori said, on March 29th, 2007 at 9:09 am

    down again, seems to give erro, then go to google website

  44. usmannaeem said, on March 30th, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    Hi, there I don’t know what happened, I logged in to Projectw.org and signed out immidiately because I had to go to class. when I logged in again today I am seeing th e message that You_been_banned.

    I would like to give a million apologies, somebody please (pretty please) ask the admin to un ban me please.

    Please my internet routine is shattered without projectw.

    Please I apologize if I did something wrong.

    Help

  45. usmannaeem said, on March 31st, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    To whom it may concern,

    I don’t know how it happened but I got banned from ProjectW. I am sorry for anything I did. Please let me login. On thursday I logged-in and I was called by my professor so I had to immidiately log-out while I was in the university lab. Thats what I did on my last activity on Thursday.

    Please forgive me, please forgive me. Somebody please request the admin to let me login and I will try my best to keep in good conduct.

    Thakyou

    usmannaeem

  46. shelby69 said, on April 6th, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    it seem that either Spy Sweeper has blocked warez-bb and projectw.org or they both are down at the sametime on april 06 2007. Can somebody confirm this and if they both up and running what is there irc server and channel? Btw how do I remove spy sweeper
    url address blocker it’s clueless no entry logs of what it blocked.

  47. Michael said, on April 10th, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    Same here. Projectw.org has banned my IP. I didn’t do anything honest, (well apart from posting a request where i should not have.)

    Thank you for the proxy sites. Worked for me. They seemed to have banned my IP but not me as a user (strange!).

    I am on NTL (UK). Virgin Media now, maybe that has something to do with it!! : (

  48. Brian said, on April 16th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    All i know is that ive been a member of PW for some time now! And recently my computer and my girlfriends have been infected with one hell of a headace issue for me! i finily fixed my computer now all i have to do is fix the 3 others in my house and the others in my girlfriends! I cant believe it! Now that ProjectW allows spam and popup ads i guess ill have to go else were for my stuff! or start my own place in which that old term comes in to place “Guess ill have to do it my self!” LOL

    the file d1,d5.exe are both infecting your NDIS.SYS file of your computer in C:/windows/system32/Drivers

    If you have the cd replace that fine in dos or safemode and your bluescreen should go away!

    If you dont have the winxpcd your sol! Sorry if the issue is that bad let me know ill gladly offer my NDIS.SYS file to some one! xgraphicsx@gmail.com

  49. john said, on April 28th, 2007 at 5:35 am

    Wow jack tha site is awesome thanks for sharing it!!!!!!!!
    Amazing the amount of content they have

  50. Yusif said, on May 1st, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Hey, i Have been banned from projectw,org because i created a topic called spider man 3. i just said anyone who has it post here. I got banned within 10mins.

    I never knew u could get banned like that.

    i have been on the site for quite some time as well.

    anyone who knows that admin plz can u tell him to unblock me.

    I have loads of ppl who use projectw.org from my computer and would realli appricate it if someone could sort this out for me..

    Plz

    p.m me on gangsta_7861@hotmail.com

    thankyou….

  51. uros said, on May 2nd, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    I have problem log in at ProjectW.
    I try to change my password via Forgot my password, but They don’t send me e-mail.
    If administrator of ProjectW read this, then send me password. My user name is BartmanBGD

    Best regards

  52. wazzee said, on May 21st, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    projectw.org is oos again.. this time its taking them forever to fix things!!

    In the mean time.. are there any similar sites which can be as productive as projectw??

  53. Ashan said, on May 25th, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    Is Projectw.org down?
    Or Have I something wrong?

    ???:

    Proxy Error

    The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
    The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.

    Reason: Error reading from remote server

  54. BB said, on May 30th, 2007 at 5:40 am

    Well, projectw is OOS for good now.

    “Information
    I’ve decided to close ProjectW down since I don’t have time to run it anymore. It was fun to do 3 years but now the time has come to shut it down. Big thanks to all posters, donators, VIPs and most of all mods and admins. Good luck in the future, GRIZZLY”

  55. Anonymouse said, on May 30th, 2007 at 5:44 am

    As of today:

    I’ve decided to close ProjectW down since I don’t have time to run it anymore. It was fun to do 3 years but now the time has come to shut it down. Big thanks to all posters, donators, VIPs and most of all mods and admins. Good luck in the future, GRIZZLY

  56. JLB3 said, on May 30th, 2007 at 6:55 am

    ProjectW.org is now closed for good………

  57. kingkama said, on May 30th, 2007 at 6:57 am

    they closed forever… really sad

    notice from the owner :

    I’ve decided to close ProjectW down since I don’t have time to run it anymore. It was fun to do 3 years but now the time has come to shut it down. Big thanks to all posters, donators, VIPs and most of all mods and admins. Good luck in the future, GRIZZLY

  58. amin_86 said, on May 30th, 2007 at 7:33 am

    i cant believe it…it closed….why?

  59. cem6a said, on May 30th, 2007 at 8:44 am

    this is sad…down for ever…o’ how i will miss it all…

  60. Durty said, on May 30th, 2007 at 9:10 am

    R.I.P.

  61. San said, on May 30th, 2007 at 9:41 am

    the latest update is that the projectw.org site now contains the following msg from Grizzly:-

    “I’ve decided to close ProjectW down since I don’t have time to run it anymore. It was fun to do 3 years but now the time has come to shut it down. Big thanks to all posters, donators, VIPs and most of all mods and admins. Good luck in the future, GRIZZLY”

    Very unfortunate.

  62. Boes said, on May 30th, 2007 at 9:45 am

    yeah its sad I just discovered ProjectW.org and now its closed, I feel like something has died inside me.

  63. jib blob said, on May 30th, 2007 at 10:39 am

    Yea Projectw.org is closed for good now which is a shame. It just kind of came out of nowhere. I was a little pissed when I logged on today to find the Admin has closed it for good because there was no warning and i wish the Admin would have posted an alternative site we can use and now were just going to have a bunch of people all over the place like chickens running with thier heads off. Does anybody know another site comparable to quality as projectw in which we share and download files?

  64. Inishi said, on May 30th, 2007 at 10:57 am

    for good? cynic…. there’s nothing good about it…. Is it true though? Someone was saying they were selling Project W in webmaster-talk.com, and now this… So what is up?

  65. koko said, on May 30th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    I’m soo sad it is now closed, this is so bad…I loved it so much :(

  66. Dutchdevil said, on May 30th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    Projectw is closed noooooooo!!!!!!!

  67. beemers said, on May 30th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    What is written at projectw.org:

    I’ve decided to close ProjectW down since I don’t have time to run it anymore. It was fun to do 3 years but now the time has come to shut it down. Big thanks to all posters, donators, VIPs and most of all mods and admins. Good luck in the future, GRIZZLY

    Very SAD
    it was like a family there

  68. NightStalker said, on May 30th, 2007 at 3:04 pm

    Ye it seems so! Really sux, I loved that board. Any1 has some good alternatives?

  69. VJ said, on May 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    man on the best Forumn ProjectW.org is Gone, i am surprised why they acted in haste, withour ever giving a Warning

  70. GRIZZLY said, on May 30th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I’ve decided to close ProjectW down since I don’t have time to run it anymore. It was fun to do 3 years but now the time has come to shut it down. Big thanks to all posters, donators, VIPs and most of all mods and admins. Good luck in the future, GRIZZLY

  71. pandabeer said, on May 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    R.I.P. Projectw.org

    NOOOOOO!!!!
    *cries*

  72. Eleo said, on May 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm

    Did anyone else see the message GRIZZLY put up today? Sad news…

  73. jeroeninspain said, on May 30th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    Its a darn shame but it seems that Grizzly has given up trying to run ProjectW. It will be dearly missed and hope that someone takes over for him. ProjectW was one of the best boards on the net. If grizzly or one of the admins reads this they can contact me at webmaster@firstcargroup.com and i will be more than happy to host and sponsor the site.

  74. Acidhead said, on May 30th, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    Damn…. that`s really bad news :-(
    ProjectW was my alltime favorite site.

    Any good alternatives around which are (almost) as good ?

  75. hinkuii said, on May 30th, 2007 at 7:30 pm

    i would say closed for bad……

    hope someone continue with it…

  76. JRX said, on May 30th, 2007 at 8:55 pm

    Anybody knows any good alternatives?

  77. AHKMED said, on May 30th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    screw PW! Join the forum at dlnova.com! It will be a lot more organized than PW ever was :D

  78. citydragon said, on May 30th, 2007 at 11:38 pm

    Very sad :(

  79. Philly said, on May 31st, 2007 at 1:16 am

    some body has to pick up where grizz left off! We NEED PW!!

  80. dan said, on May 31st, 2007 at 3:17 am

    so wait a sec. i read somewhere that someone is going to buy it and keep it running.
    and what about all those links on the site? is there any way to get those?

  81. projectWas... said, on May 31st, 2007 at 3:19 am

    So after being appearently unable to update successfully they just shut it down.
    No problem having taken $$ from donators, thought that worked well all the time.

    The whole matter feels like a “spit in your face” action to me.
    What a flake!

  82. NF said, on May 31st, 2007 at 3:40 am

    Are we sure? Is it really gone? This truly, truly sucks. I’d like to know for sure, I’ve read what Grizzly left. But I’d hate to lose such a beautiful community. I’m keeping all my bookmarks til I’m positive.

  83. ABC said, on May 31st, 2007 at 7:26 am

    Why did they close it? Such an awesome site, is there any other such site, any alternative to Projectw?

  84. Power-J said, on May 31st, 2007 at 7:26 am

    What happened? I just went to the site and it’s some kind of ads domain. Anyone knows what happened? What has it closed?

  85. Jake said, on May 31st, 2007 at 8:35 am

    noooooo its gone wow this really sucks, was a memeber for a long time, love that site, this sucks…. i hope those other sites are good, any one know any other ones? man i miss projectw :(

  86. chan said, on May 31st, 2007 at 8:41 am

    fuck u jlb3 or waever ur shittin name is

  87. VRTE said, on May 31st, 2007 at 10:32 am

    It’s sad to hear that projectw is closed. :-(

  88. RdWing said, on May 31st, 2007 at 11:21 am

    What happend to ProjectW??? Just within a few days it up and disappeared?

  89. Trigger said, on May 31st, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    RIP ProjectW

  90. ian said, on May 31st, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    why has it been closed down?

  91. PostaL said, on May 31st, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    want a site just like it w/ good downloads section and good VIP section?

    check out http://www.deviantshare.org

  92. [xero] said, on May 31st, 2007 at 6:19 pm

    Any ideas what has happened to ‘em?

  93. sagar said, on May 31st, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    Is projectw closed for ever? Or they changed their site address? Their ’search’ option was not working for last few days. Now it seems they have closed it.Can anybody give any clue?
    If there are other sites like projectw,from where we can download books,softwares,please share that.
    Thanks

  94. Alex said, on May 31st, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    Who says it is closed ?

  95. bubba55 said, on May 31st, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    Where did the info come from that says ProjectW is closed for good ? Is this true ?

  96. M4verick.com said, on May 31st, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    ProjectW.org - domain for sale????

  97. PROSEGURU said, on May 31st, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    Yeah, too bad… :(

  98. Demolition Man said, on May 31st, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    VERY VERY SAD !!!! What the hell on earth happened to projectw ??????????????????

  99. mcaleck said, on May 31st, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

  100. Mr. Bullet said, on May 31st, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    It’s sad to see such a big forum go down like this.

    RIP ProjectW

    For all of you that were members at PW…. We have a place for you here at
    http://www.filegathering.com/forum/

    You are all welcome to join and help make this one of the bigger boards on the net.

    Thanks for your time.

  101. qcmorris said, on May 31st, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    WTF!?! i am astonished that the site has been closed.. why??? i mean, i saw the reason GRIZZLY gave on the site but DAMN!!! ive been a member on that site for so long, and used it daily.. i am sooo clueless as to what im going to do.. i feel like ive lost a family member…lol

  102. Diane said, on May 31st, 2007 at 10:25 pm

    Projectw was a huge site, but I will always like filecatchers.com

  103. Wtf said, on June 1st, 2007 at 12:41 am

    Uh… Latest news is news to me… I know that they were recently down for upgrade to phpBB 3 from phpBB 2, because they’ve finally released RC1 for that version, but I had no idea they were going down for good… I noticed that their domain is now up on SedoParking and merely parked, as well as no clue as to what’s happened… But yeah, I’ve seen that since phpBB 3, they have gone through a lot of bugs etc, so I’m hoping they’re not down for good, and only sorting out some difficulty… That place was and still is really awesome ;.;

  104. A sad person said, on June 1st, 2007 at 2:42 am

    Goodbye projectw, we’ll miss you. We’ll miss you very much.

  105. lb said, on June 1st, 2007 at 3:37 am

    I just went there and got a shock….so sad :(

  106. JRCWC said, on June 1st, 2007 at 4:27 am

    ProjectW.org is now closed for good…

    Indeed it is…wonder what happened in the span of maybe three days…

  107. paul said, on June 1st, 2007 at 4:28 am

    it`s closed for good?!?!? What do you mean!!? NEVER AGAIN??? OMG! :(

  108. LaStReSoRT said, on June 1st, 2007 at 7:10 am

    R.I.P. ProjectW….

  109. 01010101 said, on June 1st, 2007 at 11:28 am

    so sad so sad…does anyone know a similar site? been using Projectw.org so long i haven’t ever need to look for anything else…i’m looking for movies mainly, thanks.

  110. Ebowed said, on June 1st, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    So uh…

    What’s the best alternative to ProjectW now that it’s been closed?

  111. Rezig said, on June 1st, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    Ohhhhhoh oh oh that’s sooo - so very unfortunate… I’ve been a patron for quite a while and have really appreciated the facility… Wha’haappend??? I mean… If ads are anyone’s problems then use a good firewall and adblocker… I never had issues thanks to that setup…

  112. ash said, on June 1st, 2007 at 6:47 pm

    i don’t understand…
    what happened to projectw????
    is it over…
    or has it been redirected another place?
    plz reply a.s.a.p

  113. Dennis said, on June 1st, 2007 at 8:55 pm

    New PROJECTW:

    www.gamers-evoltuion.nl

  114. Bruce 1 said, on June 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 am

    wot the hell happened to this great site….i miss it so much…..plz…plz…BRING IT BACK NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

  115. usmannaeem said, on June 2nd, 2007 at 2:42 am

    This is the saddest news honestly, I have heard in weeks.

    May I know the reason behind this. Please

  116. kororo said, on June 2nd, 2007 at 11:35 am

    how did this happen? my beloved projectw is gone again. i hope those guys are just bluffing and bring projectw up again.

  117. Ashan said, on June 2nd, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    and is ProjectW definitely closed or is it removing to an another domain only?

  118. Rene said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 2:30 am

    bummer!
    That was an awesome site! I wish the owners the best of luck!
    Too Bad - I’m sad!

  119. DJThuht said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 2:40 am

    Indeed, it is sad. that was probably the best place to get anything imaginable. Does anyone know of any other place that is as good?

  120. allthecows said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 9:07 am

    @usmannaeem.
    AFIAK the site owner Grizzly had just had enough of the bs that comes with running an open to all warez board with almost 1/2 a million users.

  121. Andy said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    Whaaaaa? Anyone know WHY they closed their doors? I used to love this site.

  122. dyingbreed said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    sad about the projectw story. but i know the real story behind them going down. they have too many errors on their database. and the owner is lazy to reup and correct that big database. we talked to their mods/admins on there irc server. and discussed about working for SimpleZone.net they agreed. and started working for SZ but after about 12 hrs they changed their minds they deleted all the stuffs on SZ. but still alot of PW members have joined SZ and its alive.. and we hope SZ makes the new born PW in the future

  123. verikets said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 7:30 pm

    The new site is http://www.warezws.com !!!!!!!!!!!!

    Well, unfortunately all good things come to an end after 3 years ProjectW is no more.

    Other forums are trying to ‘CLAIM’ they are the new ProjectW when in fact
    this is false you our old loyal members from ProjectW know who we are
    and what we do the moderator list speaks for it’s self the originals are back..

    ADODENHAAG

    antileet
    BuckyBKatt
    computerstar2000
    fusion.fake
    TiLt
    yshan

    All EX ProjectW Moderators (more to come)

    I’d like to take this chance to thank ANDALUCIEN
    in welcoming all old ProjectW members to WarezWS

  124. yo said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    why are they gone?

  125. SharingBoard said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 10:19 pm

    www.sharingboard.com is a good new alternative. :D

  126. ProjectW.org said, on June 3rd, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    http://www.warezws.com/

    WE are back at the following address

    http://www.warezws.com/

  127. artbreaker said, on June 4th, 2007 at 7:17 am

    i can just about imagine why they got shut down.

    this is, however, horrible horrible news indeed.

    :(

  128. […] Today I learned that one of my favorite, if not my number on favorite, website for downloading warez and movies (and occasionally music and other random bits) has officially closed its doors - and done so for good. […]

  129. Juj588 said, on June 4th, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    This really does suck. Does anyone know a site that is comparable to this? I probably used it every day.

  130. Pastdown said, on June 4th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    So how coem it closed? also whats the new site to go to?

  131. john said, on June 4th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    :((( projectw closed?!so many members r gonna be sad…and all the stuff the site had…omg

  132. Erica said, on June 4th, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    They upgraded to the new phpBB, things were getting back to normal minus the search option and poof, they were gone. :(

  133. Raj said, on June 4th, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    Yea, even i wanna know why my fav site was suddenly closed down and its domain is for sale..
    I heard they had gotten themselves into some legal issues some time back..

  134. vicky said, on June 4th, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    i dont know what is the reason behind it….but its admin say that he has so many work and he dosent get time to look after it…..so that why he closed projectw.org….it sad for me and other…..i think it must be another reason…..??? gods know what??

  135. PW lover said, on June 5th, 2007 at 12:28 am

    @usmannaeem, grizzy said he had no time to work on PW.

    You can always just use www.warez-bb.org instead

  136. usmannaeem said, on June 5th, 2007 at 3:37 am

    I wish grizzly all the best for the future. I had a gr8 time on projectW.

    You know, the reputation that ProjectW acquired takes a long time. On my part I tried to contribute with what ever little I could.

    Good luck to all moderators. So u say that warez-bb is a good alternative rite, I will take a little gettin’ used to bcoz, I paid atleast 10 visits to ProjectW daily.

    Good Luck

  137. usmannaeem said, on June 5th, 2007 at 3:46 am

    Let me put it in a better way, I actually spent 2-3 hrs daily on the site on a daily basis. Its what made me a computer geek what I am today, I think on my part I actually got projectW some 50 members.

  138. Sookmi said, on June 5th, 2007 at 10:59 am

    ProjectW no more? Suck shit ADODENHAAG & Grizzly. You pair of cunts had it coming to you. All those years of hard work. I think it so funny, all gone. Suck shit.

  139. orsomagnon said, on June 5th, 2007 at 11:42 am

    The future of ProjectW is www.warezws.com

    The PW mods now are here:
    ADODENHAAG
    antileet
    BuckyBKatt
    computerstar2000
    fusion.fake
    TiLt
    yshan

    ProjectW is back!

  140. sahmed said, on June 5th, 2007 at 5:04 pm

    One of the best board. Grizzle thank you for managing it for three years. But we are at loss by lossing a family of good pals. I have been on the forum for more then 2 years. I still belive it will come back lets see what happens. I hope Grizzle u get some time out for this thing

  141. evilkisses said, on June 5th, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    Well……… what a sodding shame, one of the best sites out there, thats for providing such a good site guys, if you see this, that is. ;)

    R.I.P

  142. Texand said, on June 5th, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    I see TiLt at http://www.warezws.com/

    Puzo.org is a nice alternative, also. 80,210 members

  143. karotech said, on June 5th, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    Just my luck!

    I’ve been using the site for while and two weeks ago, I decided to donate $20.00 through paypal, and now is site dissapears.

  144. omfg said, on June 6th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    I’m heart broken. I visited it, or tried, just now and it was completely gone. Googled it, and found out it’s closed. I am sad now, thats all I have to say.

  145. Taha198 said, on June 6th, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    Alas! One of my fav site died few days ago. This is the second & probably the biggest blow for me after whereisit.org got invitee only.
    Sad day for me. i visited daily on the site in a hope to find it running back, but my hopes now died after reading posts in this thread.

  146. W!SHMAST3R said, on June 7th, 2007 at 8:01 am

    Try ForumW It’s just as huge as the late great ProjectW (R.I.P.) the rules are basically the same and “it’s alive”.

  147. snoopinc said, on June 7th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    New ProjectW at http://www.projectw2.com

  148. Image said, on June 7th, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    IF u want image hosting then visit http://www.upload2view.com

  149. Vikram said, on June 7th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

    Projectw is back at warezws.com. All the oldies from there are at the new site. good to see you back in the reincarnated form!

  150. Anime avatars said, on June 8th, 2007 at 3:03 am

    Too bad they closed it :’(

  151. Rezig said, on June 8th, 2007 at 4:07 am

    Agreed.. The site is sorely missed….. It is often unfortunate how constant is change… Let’s make one fo the other sites that popular… Hassle though it may be.. Nothing good ever comes easy does it? I Must Admit to telling all those who I know and understood to need the assistance ProjectW provided, of its existance… They are likewise disappointed. The resource prevented Us from having to search all over the place for what was needed… making life… quite easy and enjoyable… I see the owner has no intention of changing his mind at this time.. Which is alright.. We will take Our business elsewhere so they can relax from years of service…

    Please remember this… Managing such a complex site becomes a career.. I’ve worked with PC since it was invented in 1976.. and am likewise tired of constantly giving advice and working on alllllllllll those computers.. for most of my life. I too.. have chosen to mostly retire and take mine own enjoyment of this short life we * shudders * Humans have.. Bully For You ProjectW… Your mark on antiquity’s pages is assured.

    Rama Bless

    Rez.

  152. libertypatriot said, on June 8th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    IT is a conspiracy my friends

    You know in your heart it is time to rise up and fight the NWO

    They are now moving out

    TIme to defend your life from evil

    LP

  153. Annie said, on June 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    I am currently setting up a new site called paradiox, it is exactly the same as projectw. We have everything, appz, music, movies, scripts, templates etc etc…..

    So come and check it out

    www.paradiox.com

  154. bassam said, on June 9th, 2007 at 11:30 pm

    Project W is not gone

    Only name changed

    It is now

    http://warezws.com/index.php

    So go there and start posting
    huryy

    All the PW people have migrated to http://warezws.com/index.php

    All the Admins and MODS are there (except Big chief)

    So Hurry and go

    http://warezws.com/index.php

  155. hkirin1 said, on June 10th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    i have been banned from ForumW, but i do nothing. “You_been_banned”

  156. Annie said, on June 10th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    HI All,

    Brand NEW warez site, the only warez site were WE REWARD YOU!!!

    http://www.paradiox.com

    See You There

    AnnieC

  157. Charles Mwiyeretsi said, on June 12th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    A part of me died this day, to find out PW is no more. It changed my life, thats for sure, what with all those warez, the music, and the e-books? Damn, curse u Grizzly…but thank you Grizzly. I guess, nothing lasts forever. So sorely missed.
    ***21 GUN SALUTE***

  158. www.lofosbeach.tk said, on June 13th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    I think that the owner must be think about to sell the domain and forum with server…the money of this story it is plenty of money to him…many people want to buy such a this forum with so much popularity

  159. imissprojectwx said, on June 13th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

    What a shame that a great site like projectw went down. We will all miss GRIZZLY and his great site. Good thing some old members are starting a new projectw in memory of the old one. Go to projectw2.informe.com. By the way those bastards at waresws are just trying to steal all of pw members by claiming to be a new pw. Not true, infact they used to compete with projectw.

  160. Thorondor said, on June 14th, 2007 at 5:09 am

    I started to be a member of ProjectW when the original warezbb.com went crazy (a lot of years ago). They became later “Warez-BB.org”, but by then, ProjectW was a huge and organized community. I deeply regret the dead of PW, but as before, I have now to find a forum with similar features. Right now, I think Warez-BB is the solution (I didn’t just switchted back, I was member in both forums since ever).

    GRIZZLY, you did well, my friend. I hope you find what you’re looking for.

  161. [DM] said, on June 18th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    Try http://www.wareznet.net its pretty good and been around ages. It’s free to join though you have to signup to some free porn site. Once in the probably the best forum I’ve been on.

  162. chvbreddy said, on June 19th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    Hooooooooooo………….. such a sad……… I am not able to digest it.

  163. savier said, on June 19th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

    projectw alternative site

    Projectw reload as

    projectwz.org the site will launch for all in a weeks time.

  164. jimmy said, on June 24th, 2007 at 4:52 am

    hey guys, wat a sad day it was indeed. But I have found a great alternative, hope u enjoy it as much as i did http://ddl.90thminute.co.uk/forum/

  165. remedlem said, on June 24th, 2007 at 3:16 pm

    try this one:
    www.boduashi.org, one of the hottest warez forum ;)

  166. AlexanderS said, on June 25th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    Get a life go to cmszone.org atleast they are not heartless as projectw mods and admins !

  167. Bardy said, on June 27th, 2007 at 2:09 am

    Which of the above is real appz website? gosh, all seems to be bot or advertising.

  168. sexy lexi said, on June 27th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    use www.forumw.org - awesome website!
    www.forumc.org is good for legal christian music downloads etc ! awesome site! GBu!!

  169. Blade said, on June 28th, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    I’m Ready to buy the website from the owner…

  170. Admin said, on June 28th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    ProjectW back at http://www.projectw2.com

  171. Stan said, on June 28th, 2007 at 7:50 pm

    hey guys try out this great site http://www.90thminute.co.uk/ddl/index.php

  172. Simbad said, on June 29th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    Hey guys, I was also devasted when I found out about projectw, but looking around I found a new site. http://90thminute.co.uk/ddl/index.php
    there is a competition to get a free 30day rapidsahre account.

  173. pointblank said, on June 30th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    its a government conspiracy NO way a site can run for so long and have such a big membership then jus disappear!!!!! or may be it a huge crackdown on geekdom???

  174. jimmy said, on June 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    hey guys, wat a sad day it was indeed. But I have found a great alternative, hope u enjoy it as much as i did. Free 30-day rapidshare account competition.
    http://www.90thminute.co.uk/ddl/index.php

  175. sneezy said, on July 1st, 2007 at 10:53 pm

    best alternative is www.warez-bb.org. it was formed by a group from projectw i believe.

  176. www.world-w.org said, on July 3rd, 2007 at 4:43 pm

    www.world-w.org come on all and do this next ProjectW :) Please register

  177. ParadioX said, on July 7th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    Hi All,

    www.paradiox.com

    Currently giving out FREE vip access……….

    Come and have a nosey, you may be one of them lucky people…

    Annie

  178. TiLt (moderator) said, on July 9th, 2007 at 2:47 am

    WarezWS Is Another FAKER.

    GRIZZLY owned ProjectW he is at ProjectWrz.com

    WarezWS does not even have ProjectW in the URL DOH!!

  179. ADODENHAAG said, on July 9th, 2007 at 2:52 am

    *coughs*

    i have seen so much sites that claim they are the new PW, well wrong!!

    the only new PW you can find @ www.Projectwrz.com

    ===> just look @ staff list

  180. TheFileBay said, on July 13th, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    Hello, I just recently opened up a forum. This forum is a file sharing community. Currently, we do not have much because we do not have that many members, but if some of you guys could join, that would be great. If you guys could contribute, we could start to get somewhere. With your help, in a few months, we could get thousands of members and then this forum could be a great file sharing community. If you would like to help, please visit www.thefilebay.com, register, and contribute. One new member can make a big difference. You start off small and grow into a large community.

    Take a peek, you might want to stay and help.

    Thank you,
    TheFileBay

    www.thefilebay.com

  181. JLB3 said, on July 19th, 2007 at 5:46 am

    PW.org is out of dead and come back with new ower…

    http://projectw.performanceforums.com/

    the address will be changed to original address in couple weeks

  182. Taha198 said, on July 24th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    Projectw.org is BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Hurray

  183. warez downloads said, on July 29th, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Hi Everyone,

    Well http://www.warez-downloadz.com is now fully running, with thousands of movies, games, movies and music, you cant go wrong.

    Our members are comming in by the dozen and sharing movies, games and music has never been easier.

    Also we are giving away FREE VIP passes, come to the forum and check out the post on what you need to do to become a free VIP.

    Hope to see you all there

    http://www.warez-downloadz.com

  184. AltaGid said, on August 8th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    Hello! Help solve the problem.
    Very often try to enter the forum, but says that the password is not correct.
    Regrettably use of remembering. Give like to be?
    Thank you!

  185. Sudhir Mangla said, on August 31st, 2007 at 5:48 am

    Projectw.org is BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Now there is no need for all these non sense. every other site was claiming to be Projectw.org. But now the original is back.

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