Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 25, 2005 @11:20PM 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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Re:Why bother? by Gulthek · 2005-09-26 02:29 · Score: 1, Troll

Microsoft won't send you a copy of the CD image just because you say you have the license on the side of your computer? Oh no! I guess you'd better keep track of that $200+ dollar piece of computing equipment (the frakkin' MS CD) next time huh?

If you misplace a game CD do you expect to be able to download it for free since you still have the case and the instructions?

Wacky.