P2P Polluter Shuts Down

Dotnaught writes "Loudeye Corp. said today it is closing its anti-piracy unit, Overpeer, Inc., in an effort to cut costs. Overpeer is best known for polluting P2P networks with garbled digital files. For what it's worth, the Internet filter at CMP Media, where I work, blocks Overpeer's site as 'spyware.'"

Comments

Re:Not really a huge victory...

[LiquidCoooled]

I never understand the mentality of sharing your downloads folder.
At the places (dare I say hubs) that I frequent, sharing incomplete or multiple corrupted files gains you an instant ban.
This seems to work, because in all the years I have been around I've only ever had 2 misidentied files (and one of them was just my fault - red eye 2005 korea version).

Verify your shares folks.

Credence for FileSharing without P2P Pollution...

[Timothy1965]

I use Credence-LimeWire for downloading songs. About five days after voting on some files, it built a decent trust network for me so the top items in my searches are items that other people have voted on as being clean.

By the way, OverPeer is by no means the only polluter out there. There are spammers who serve the same iPod ad under every conceivable name. Credence marks those as crap and moves them to the bottom of the list, once someone else has voted on them.

Previous Slashdot discussion on Credence is here.

Re:Morphing and going into hiding, more likely.

[Blkdeath]

They try sourcing bandwidth from my cable modem and they'll get to know the dark side of my attorney, I can tell you that.

Pssst; I think he meant using cable modem accounts to hide amongst the masses.

BTW - if you (the general 'you') don't check your downloads and automatically share them out again you are donating your bandwidth to their efforts. Clean up the P2P - stage and scan your downloads!

Re:Glad this does not affect eMule/Bittorrent

[JFitzsimmons]

Not exactly, but close enough.

The file is split into logical chunks, and the hash of each chunk is taken when a torrent file is created. When the client downloads, it checks each chunk, as soon as it finishes, against the hash provided for that chunk in the torrent file. I'm not actually sure what kind of particular hashing algorithm it uses, and I honestly don't care.