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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. Re:Back when hackers ruled the net by XFilesFMDS1013 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, it's the Republican way to do things.

  2. Uh who WANTS to download this crap? by db10 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd sue myself if I was caught torrenting this tripe.

  3. everything for free.. by Genjurosan · · Score: 0, Troll

    And it's really odd, because this attitude was clearly exposed in the wake of Katrina. This attitude now prevails in the US and I can't seem to understand why. I believe it's all part of the liberal slant of our educational institutions. Pride and entitlement feelings are killing our way of life.