HBO Attacking BitTorrent

DIY News writes "HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome. In addition to an older tactic of offering bogus downloads that never complete, HBO is now obstructing the downloads offered by other people. HBO runs peers that tell the tracker they have all the chunks of the show, but then send garbage data when a downloader requests a chunk. While the bogus peers can be detected, it will take much longer to download shows."

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Re:Back when hackers ruled the net

[QuantumG]

Have you considered that maybe you just hung out with pussies?

Re:They are giving away DVD's of Rome

[Daemonik]

So I had no choice but to download the first five episodes from my commerical usenet feed :) I did however watch the sixth episode "regularly" on HBO, so I guess their tactic gained them a viewer.

You have cable, but you had to download the first five episodes? Does your cable provider not offer Video On Demand? You see, it's this new invention where you can view any episode of the series that has been aired for free, whenever you want. Call your cable provider and demand that they upgrade to this centuries technology.

Next Sunday, I'll probably be on my couch watching the seventh episode as it airs. And then I'll download it, too.

Okay, most cable providers that offer the VOD also provide Personal Video Recorders to their customers. You could also pop for a DVD Recorder and record it. Again, why with the downloading??

So what?

[Spy der Mann]

let them poison their shows. It's *THEIR* copyright, isn't it?
They're not doing anything "evil". Just let us download legal stuff in peace.

The low bastards!

[xQx]

What a bunch of assholes!

Now if they produced shows that didn't SUCK I might give a shit.

Re:They are giving away DVD's of Rome

[turtled]

Can you mod this (Score -1, Retarted)? I am now dumber for reading that 5 times trying to understand.