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Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology
An anonymous reader writes "As reported by The Inquirer, a Finnish company known as Viralg Oy claim to have developed software that can create a junk file with the same hash as a genuine p2p download. This, according to the company, can altogether stop the sharing of copywritten files by flooding p2p networks with corrupt/junk data, which then spreads through the network, causing less and less of the original file to be available. However, with the resolve of the p2p userbase, is this software really going to 'beat all Peer 2 Peer pirates at their own game,' or simply prove a minor annoyance?"
how will this be different from the flodding of fake files already on P2P networks like Kazaa. Sure, the hash will be the same, but what "JHoe Sixpack" looks at hashes?!
"I don't know how they are made, but I have listened to music that sounds pretty good, but after the 10th playing it starts skipping."
Or maybe you have a bad hard drive?
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