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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."
"Woah! Watch out! I think he's got a soviet russia joke! Quick, everyone! Evacuate the city before he uses it. He doesn't look like he's going to use it very responsibly so we're all in danger!"
Seriously. Use a joke responsibly? WTF? Maybe where your from using jokes is a serious business, but out here in Australia making a joke is anything BUT serious. People don't think about "using a joke responsibly", it's a joke, it's meant to make people laugh, if it does great, if it doesn't oh well. But you don't have to consider using it responsibly, the most thought you should put into it is "is this going to hurt anyone's feelings."
Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays.
Yakov, is that you?
The essance of the joke was (as you put it) contrasting two very different and very much opposing societies.
In the 'modern' incarnation, the essance is still there. Instead of directly comparing America with the USSR, it is now implied that the contrast is "Soviet Russia" and the rest of the world.
Of course, it's still not really funny unless ot makes sense in terms of how things were in Soviet Russia, but your rant was completely off base anyway.
=Smidge=
Most of these files are files are small in size usually 1mb and therefore easily to detect. Some of these are exe files which is an obvious red flag. For this reason, I think that this is not a big problem. People should know better than to download a movie that is 52k in size.
I also recommend using a seperate computer for downloading. This is a good idea for security because if the computer gets infected, you can just reinstall without damaging your main computer. The other benefit is that it does not use the resources of you main computer