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P2P Polluter Shuts Down

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the nice-tries dept.

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.'"

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  1. P2P Polluter Shuts Down... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess this is one big step closer to reversing global warming... oh wait...

  2. And? by garcia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For what it's worth, the Internet filter at CMP Media, where I work, blocks Overpeer's site as 'spyware.'"

    For what it's worth, a friend that works at Honeywell says that Bug Me Not's site is blocked as "hacking and subversion tools".

    Yeah, exactly, so what?

  3. Morphing and going into hiding, more likely. by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The IP blocks they use are widely known and have become ineffective against savvy filesharers. More likely, they're going to go under deeper cover, sourcing bandwidth from consumer sources like cable modem and DSL providers to spy on file sharers and pollute the networks. I'm surprised it's taken this long.

    --
    I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
  4. Building relationships with potential customer... by Chaffar · · Score: 5, Funny
    Overpeer "intervenes on behalf of our clients to protect their content from piracy on P2P networks. And, in certain cases, we also may help them build relationships with potential customers who happen to be on the P2P site"

    Really? I'd like to know how they went around to build these relationships:

    [Music] Hit me baby one more time, oh baby baby...[/Music] fkshfkjcxxxx------... You are a pirate. We know who you are. When where you downloaded this song from. Purchase the CD from a retailer (no iTunes they're evil too) and we won't sue you. Your truly. Overpeer.
  5. Credence for FileSharing without P2P Pollution... by Timothy1965 · · Score: 5, Informative
    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.