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HBO Attacking BitTorrent

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hand-that-feeds dept.

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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  1. FIRST P0ST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, I got the first post! What I didn't? Oh, fuck it!

  2. E-Mule by Logicdisorder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am sure if anyone has a problem with getting the show though BT they can always use the mule :P

    GO THE MULE!

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    "The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose." - James Baldwin, American author
  3. You have a really bad sense of inflation. by alakon · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's well over $600 an hour now. Mostly $600-900 an hour. That's the going rate.

    I don't know where you get your legal advice. Anonymous Lawyer?

  4. Dems do want information to be free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    They want to free all information about
    1. Rush Limbaughs drug addiction.
    2. Rove's, Libbey, Cheney's, and Bush's outing of Plame (in other countries you would be shot as a traitor).
    3. Rove's, Libbey, Cheney's, and Bush's perjury to the grand jury.
    4. Frist's insider trading that saved him 50 million.
    5. Frist's and Tom Delay's Money Laundering.
    6. National Republican Committee's working with Frist/Delay in money laundering.
    7. The new republican head of house (blunt) who appears to have been involved in the money laundering.
    8. Sibel Edmund's words concerning documents about Bush and 911.
    9. The new investigation into what George Tennant and his top people knew before 9/11 and what happened after 9/11.
    10. Why a gay hooker (Jeff Gannon) was bedding down in the white house at night .
    11. Why is ken lay and Phil Anshutz still running around?
  5. Re:The low bastards! by xQx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh wait, do HBO do The West Wing? If they do I take that back. ... I don't know, I get it off BitTorrent.