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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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  1. GNAA Announces Corporate Downsizing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    GNAA Announces Corporate Downsizing and Administrative Reformation

    Misha Borovsky (GNAP) - Hollywood - GNAA President timecop announced at a press conference this morning that the Gay Nigger Association of America is in the midst of a large effort to reduce operating costs and streamline business processes. "Layoffs of approximately fifty percent of the gay workforce are to be expected, as well as a shifting in administrative functions," timecop was quoted as saying. Analysts predict this corporate downsizing was made necessary due to over-investment into the New Orleans area, when it was announced last year that the GNAA would be opening a state-of-the-art branch office on the coast. The building was nearing completion and just opening for business when it was destroyed by hurricane Katrina, which has been recently found to be the responsibility of Jews. As George W. Bush is noted for not caring about black people, FEMA has refused to pay for the repairs, and the project was scrapped.

    "We are also making internal changes to the corporate information technology intranet," said supers, CTO for GNAA Worldwide Operations. "Many of our information moving processes were running on the Lunix platform, and this was generating large costs due to system slowness and instability. After a careful usability study, we have found that we will be saving millions of dollars [USD] per year by switching to the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server System".

    timecop ended the conference by announcing, "We'll always be there for the gay niggers of the world. With this restructuring of the organization, we are enabled to offer twice the service for a fraction of the cost. It's a new gay universe ahead."

    About GNAA:
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  2. f1rst p0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    lolz

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

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

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

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

  5. Re:An Open Letter to HBO by Daemonik · · Score: -1, Troll
    Dear Honda, I love your cars but driving is too expensive. Won't you please offer your cars free? I know your workers won't mind not getting paid, and I'm sure the high quality products that I've come to expect from you will continue to flow in this new market.

    It's time that you evolved and move beyond your antiquated expectation of being paid for your products. After all, it's not like I can just walk, and I can't possibly live without your products.

  6. 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.