Overpeer Spewing Bogus Files on P2P Networks

nimec writes "Zeropaid.com has posted news of a company called Overpeer which is the source of all the bogus mp3 files that are popping up on the various P2P networks. Zeropaid, in the news article, said: 'If you've encountered the "loop" files, in which a section of the chorus or hook is repeated over and over, you've been tricked by OVERPEER. OVERPEER are doing this with the full knowlege and consent of Interscope and Universal Music, in fact they are under contract to Universal and other major record labels, and will be doing a LOT MORE of this type of "interdiction" in the near future.' Right now this doesn't bother me because these bogus files are few, very spread out and it is easy spot them. I'm just afraid that over time people will keep downloading these bogus mp3s and become too lazy to delete them, like they are when it comes to incomplete songs."

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[ImaLamer]

I've got yet another work around suggestion.

Your p2p application (which supports metadata, hashes etc) will wait to add a downloaded file to the "shared" section until after you view it.

This would cut down on some short divx'd files (which won't play "out of the box") bogus mp3 files (overpeer) and whatever else.

A system which flags files as "ok" could come under attack because overpeer could just flag their files "ok" as well.

The system I suggested above would only of course work with files downloaded, not files you have existing on your computer. Of course through the hash system you could be verified against other people.

Overpeer... create mp3's backwards from one-way hashes! Good luck you bastards!

Considering we already have hash systems in Gnutella apps... they can suck me.