UPDATE: Viprasys is back at http://www.viprasys.org

One of the best Yahoo! discussion forums that I have found is viprasys.com which was a big traffic generator for this site. I have to say “was” because viprasys is currently offline and there are rumors that it will not be back anytime soon. According to discussions at DSL Reports (http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r21955960-Viprasys), the site was taken down due to an illegal eBook hosted on the site. It is hard to get many more facts because the thread quickly degenerated into a shouting match and eventually was quarantined by DSL Reports. It is a shame that such a great resource is now gone due to not Yahoo! complaining but someone with copyright issues. This certainly makes me want to write a check to the RIAA right now.

There is also a question posted at Yahoo! Questions (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090225040444AACKpih) about the outage and the answers imply that viprasys will be back but perhaps under a different name. If any of the viprasys administrators need money to get their site back, let me know and I will be more than glad to pitch in a few dollars.