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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. DMCA and licensing by libra-dragon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wouldn't that make HBO in violation of the DMCA by hacking the protocol?

    Furthermore, according to the BitTorrent license, shouldn't they release the source of their derivative work?

  2. Sad State by Agarax · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's a sad state of things when comments like this aren't rated higher.

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