Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent

Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent 542

Posted by Zonk on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:20AM from the five-bucks-says-it's-the-mpaa dept.

jambarama writes "One of the biggest problems with the Fasttrack network has been poisoning. This is the practice of sharing a file on a P2P network that looks like the real thing, but isn't. Bittorrent until recently has been largely immune to this. Now a new type of torrent is tricking bittorrent sites to rising to the top of the download lists." From the article: "According to Rex, about 50 new torrents have been released from what he calls "fake" trackers (~31 in total.) These trackers are seemingly part of an elaborate plot to infiltrate the BitTorrent community with intentionally corrupt files. These movie and film titles are specifically designed to report false information to trackers, thereby gaining artificially inflated popularity."

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EULA (Score:5, Funny)

by wall0159 ( 881759 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:25AM (#13649370)

Simple. Bittorrent needs an EULA so that people are forced to post legitimate pirated files. Damned liars - spoiling it for all us honest freeloaders.

Enforcement (Score:3, Funny)

by minginqunt ( 225413 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:28AM (#13649378) Homepage Journal

Why won't people leave me to break the law in peace, dammit!?

I mean, what did I ever do to them? Oh, wait...

Martin

do you remember the time (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:31AM (#13649389)

when the "poisoners" just tricked you by putting porn in place of the movie? that was always my favorite poison. that's why i drank a small dose of it everyday until i became immune.

Their choice of words... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:32AM (#13649391)

...is apparently poisoned, too. Fifth paragraph in the article:
Those who download these torrents are unable to complete a full download, as the file transfer stops [mybittorrent.com] at approximately 97%-98%.
Hover your mouse over the link and read.

Re:Poison! (Score:5, Funny)

by minginqunt ( 225413 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:33AM (#13649397) Homepage Journal

> Otherwise you'll turn it into "all your base" and we saw where that went.

To Us?

YEA! (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:38AM (#13649423)

I hate poisoned files!
I try to download a game... and what do I get? A french version!
DELETED!

I try to download another game... and what do I get? A polish version!
DELETED!

A friend of mine tried to download some real good lesbian porn and what did he get? No... worse than what you think....... a britney spears clip!
UGH. DELETED!

Re:Law breakers only fall for poisonous files (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:40AM (#13649432)

(e.g. get the latest britney spears song when it's really just static)

When you say that, ....

Well... (Score:1, Funny)

by msormune ( 808119 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:45AM (#13649460)

If you feel that someone has caused you enough grief with bogus torrents in your seek for copyrighted movies and music, why don't you go and sue someone about it?

Re:Law breakers only fall for poisonous files (Score:5, Funny)

by JohhnyTHM ( 799469 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:49AM (#13649485)

get the latest britney spears song when it's really just static
I thought they were sounding better than usual...

Next Week On Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

by gowen ( 141411 ) writes: <gwowen@gmail.com> on Monday September 26, 2005 @07:50AM (#13649486) Homepage Journal

"Locks Plague Burglars"
"Mace Plagues Rapists"
"Speed Cameras Plague Speeding Motorists"
"Forensic Science Plagues Careless Criminals"
"Crazy Frog Ringtone Plagues Absolutely Everyone..."

Pot. Kettle. Black (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @08:13AM (#13649581)

"but out here in Australia making a joke is anything BUT serious."
So sayeth the man who in the other story got all non-jokey about humor on wikipedia [slashdot.org].
Pot. Kettle. Black.

Gee I wonder if... (Score:3, Funny)

by Boomshanka ( 788195 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @08:18AM (#13649603)

I wonder if they can corrupt "battlefield earth" in such a way that it would be actually watchable....

Re:YEA! (Score:2, Funny)

by fixinah ( 809681 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @08:27AM (#13649640) Homepage

Yeah I remember that lesbian clip of Britney kissing that old lady, oh the horror.

Re:Poison! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @08:47AM (#13649763)

In Soviet Russia, jokes responsibly use you!

Re:Law breakers only fall for poisonous files (Score:3, Funny)

by maxwell demon ( 590494 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @08:48AM (#13649770) Journal

would anything M$ would do or think of surprise any of us anymore?

Yes. If MS would release Windows under the GPL, I'd honestly be surprised. Not that I'd expect that ... but then, if I'd expect it, I'd not be surprised if it happened!

Re:Next Week On Slashdot... (Score:4, Funny)

by justforaday ( 560408 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @09:15AM (#13649929)

Plague Plagues Plaguevictims?

Writ in! (Score:3, Funny)

by Impy the Impiuos Imp ( 442658 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @10:49AM (#13650652) Journal

I'm writing my Congressman today. We need a law to make it illegal for copyright holders to offer fake movies when I wanna download the real one without paying! God almighty, can't Congress work for the people?!?!?

Re:Answer me this. (Score:2, Funny)

by quantum bit ( 225091 ) writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @12:03PM (#13651222) Journal

Being a Devil's Advocate on slashdot puts me in a scary place.

The BSD section?

Re:Next Week On Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 26, 2005 @12:23PM (#13651396)

Yeah. Pirating DVDs is way worse.
</MPAA executive impression>

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EULA (Score:5, Funny)

Enforcement (Score:3, Funny)

do you remember the time (Score:5, Funny)

Their choice of words... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Poison! (Score:5, Funny)

YEA! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Law breakers only fall for poisonous files (Score:0, Funny)

Well... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Law breakers only fall for poisonous files (Score:5, Funny)

Next Week On Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)

Pot. Kettle. Black (Score:1, Funny)

Gee I wonder if... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:YEA! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Poison! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Law breakers only fall for poisonous files (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Next Week On Slashdot... (Score:4, Funny)

Writ in! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Answer me this. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Next Week On Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

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