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Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Poison! by BaCkBuRn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    * In Soviet Russia, torrent poisons you!

    --
    PRINT "Signature line broken."
    GOTO 1
    1. Re:Poison! by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I was trying to find a polite way of saying

      "Stop being a fucking wanna-be johny-come-too-late asshat destroying a time honoured joke with your lame ass inability to correctly identify the entire thing."

      At the point where it's acceptable for people to just misremember things and patently just regurgitate the same one line [*] over and over ... well that's when the world goes to hell. Could you imagine walking up to slashdot folk like this in the real world? Man that would be assinine.

      You: Hey, check out my new desktop.
      Them: Does it run a beowolf of linux in soviet russia?
      You: *KAPOW*, no, but your head doesn't stop my .45 either, imagine that!
      witness: -1, flamebait

      I mean seriously, if you're trying to be funny by using a "big boy" joke why not actually say it correctly.

      [*] Because the omitting the "in america, BLAH" bit first destroys the joke. The joke is based on the strong contrast between the American and Soviet societies. When you omit the first part you're just showing you don't actually get the joke, never looked up where it comes from, etc...

      Tom

      --
      Someday, I'll have a real sig.
    2. Re:Poison! by RalphBinaca · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      "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.

    3. Re:Poison! by Smidge204 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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=

  2. Re:So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I still can't afford it and I make an ok Salary of 22k a year.

  3. Re:So what? by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get a roommate to split rent/food costs with. Should be fine after that.

    And/or go to school, put your energy into something useful [not school but something extra curricular] get noticed and get a decent paying job ;-)

    Tom

    --
    Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  4. Want to have some fun? Slashdot 'em! by tsager · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    wget http://www.mybittorrent.com/bantrackers.txt -O /tmp/bantrackers.txt && \
    while [ 1 ] ; do \
    counter=1; for i in `cat /tmp/bantrackers.txt | grep 'http'`; do \
    echo -n "${counter} "; counter=`expr $counter + 1`; \
    wget $i -O /dev/null -o /dev/null --timeout=3 ; done; \
    echo; done
    ;-)
  5. Usually idiots fall for this by computergeek1200 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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