Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent

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."

Comments

EULA

[wall0159]

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

do you remember the time

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Poison!

[minginqunt]

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

To Us?

Re:Law breakers only fall for poisonous files

[JohhnyTHM]

get the latest britney spears song when it's really just static

I thought they were sounding better than usual...

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