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Stop bit torrent piracy with inconvenience?

01-26-2011, 03:34 AM

Seems that 25% of the files on the pirate bay are not what they appear to be.

Fake video files are being posted by the media groups.

Fake software files are being posted by malware folk.

The idea, and I like it, is to make it just too much of a pain in the arse to use the pirate bay. What if 50% of the files you try and download are not what they purport to be? You'd get pretty pissed off soon enough.

Obviously, bit torrent piracy is only a very very very small subsection of copyright infringement, but if it pushes a few people over to a pay model, then that is great.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...-are-fakes.ars

Would be very very easy to flood porn piracy places with these fake files, but obviously companies involved wouldn't make as much as they do with the legal blackmail model currently being championed.
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01-26-2011, 03:40 AM

That's what's been happenning to me, I've been trying to get some software off there for ages now and they are all duffs.

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01-26-2011, 03:46 AM

Outside of direct theft from Websites, Torrents are the next biggest source of piracy online - for software, games, movies, etc - not porn. People using public trackers, will have problems and it will get worse. People using private trackers have requirements, they aren't going to have near as many problems, if any.

If your torrent search doesn't return what you like... try a different search engine.

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01-26-2011, 04:04 AM

Originally posted by TheDoc

Outside of direct theft from Websites, Torrents are the next biggest source of piracy online

Citation needed.

I would put usenet and private ftp sites above torrents. But that is 'pulling it out of my arse' maths. Do you have anything to back up your claim, or are you just guessing and stating is as fact?
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01-26-2011, 07:04 AM

I've been saying it for years... fake torrents, fake trackers (filled with ads and popups), fake rapidshare forums,...
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01-26-2011, 07:11 AM

already being done and exploited.

ps: torrent traffic on the decline but no way usenet/private ftp exceeding torrent traffic atm.
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01-26-2011, 07:24 AM

Originally posted by DamianJ

Seems that 25% of the files on the pirate bay are not what they appear to be.

Fake video files are being posted by the media groups.

Fake software files are being posted by malware folk.

The idea, and I like it, is to make it just too much of a pain in the arse to use the pirate bay. What if 50% of the files you try and download are not what they purport to be? You'd get pretty pissed off soon enough.

Obviously, bit torrent piracy is only a very very very small subsection of copyright infringement, but if it pushes a few people over to a pay model, then that is great.

Would be very very easy to flood porn piracy places with these fake files, but obviously companies involved wouldn't make as much as they do with the legal blackmail model currently being championed.

I went to a media production convention last year where mid-size studios talked about how the combat ThePirateBay and other bittorrent sites by uploading files that have the same name as the film they produced, same size and length, but only allow the first 2 minutes of the file to be viewable then they distort the rest of the video with a message telling the viewer where to legally buy the video.

They said it works because the bittorrent downloaded gets frustrated with only finding bogus films and gives up. They claim it has increases sales greatly. They also said they create many variants for uploads to the bittorrent servers so that the chances of a downloader getting one of their distorted films is very high.
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01-26-2011, 07:29 AM

This only works against idiots, and even the idiots learn quickly if they intend on continuing to download. Certain search strings, double checking the contents of the torrent prior to download, trusted release groups, read the comments prior to a big download.

9 out of 10 times on TPB, you can avoid downloading junk simply by reading the first few comments on the torrent. Avoiding RARs is another good way if you're downloading video.

This isn't like Napster or where you could just upload static mp3s and drive downloaders crazy.
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01-26-2011, 07:34 AM

Private trackers are becoming more prevalent.
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01-26-2011, 07:46 AM

What's a private tracker? Example please.... I like to learn one new thing a day..

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01-26-2011, 07:51 AM

Originally posted by Dwreck

What's a private tracker? Example please.... I like to learn one new thing a day..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorr...ivate_trackers
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01-26-2011, 07:56 AM

Originally posted by Anthony

Private trackers are becoming more prevalent.

yes, and at a lot of those you can buy credits.... So those people are willing to pay for a certain product...

That's something a lot of people in this industry fail to realize... not all torrent users are freeloaders... some of them are willing to pay for a product or service they value.
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01-26-2011, 08:02 AM

Hire an attorney first. You will most likely get sued and they will win.

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01-26-2011, 08:05 AM

lol why would you get sued for seeding a fake file ...?
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01-26-2011, 08:18 AM

not a bad idea, but it's not as easy to pull off as you make it sound, so you seed a fake, few people download it, and then guess what happens? someone posts "fake!" and then it's all over... and those users aren't buyers anyway...

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