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MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the old-bait-and-switch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The MPAA and other anti-piracy watchdogs have been caught trapping people into downloading fake torrents, so they can collect IP addresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs. The battle between P2P networks and copyright holders seems to be a never ending battle. It will be interesting to see how much the anti-piracy groups practices change once they begin begin selling movies and TV shows legally on bittorrent.com."

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  1. Nothing for you to see here, please move along by sokoban · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess that Slashdot has been caught uploading fake headlines as well.

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  2. ZOMG!! by russ1337 · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMG the cops were also caught planting fake cars waiting to be stolen so they could catch car theives!!

    1. Re:ZOMG!! by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

      I wonder what the value of random digital garbage is.

      Well, Madonna seems to be raking in the bucks.

    2. Re:ZOMG!! by jrockway · · Score: 5, Funny

      > attempted copyright infringement

      No, it's called "conspiracy to conspire about thinking about thinking about a thought crime". Just turn yourself in now.

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    3. Re:ZOMG!! by jones_supa · · Score: 2, Funny
      They're seeding garbage files that are labeled as actual content and collecting IPs.
      Shirley Manson must be upset.
    4. Re:ZOMG!! by GuyverDH · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually, you're wrong. Imagine that.

      When you buy a bootleg DVD, you are buying whatever someone put on there, be it a copy, or original content.

      Now, when you play that DVD, you are streaming data, a small amount at a time.
      At no time, while playing it, did you have an *ENTIRE* copy floating around somewhere.
      All you've done in essence, is taken *FAIR USE* clips, and very neatly strung them together to where "ZOMG" you can *watch* the whole thing.

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    5. Re:ZOMG!! by ignavus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Pirates used to sail around the ocean until they saw a pretty looking ship. Then they would copy its design and build their own pretty looking ship.

      That way they could avoid paying a naval architect to design such a ship.

      It drove all those poor naval architects nearly bankrupt.

      We mustn't let it happen again.

      Help stamp out piracy - don't make illegal copies!

      That's why copyright infringement is technically piracy.

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    6. Re:ZOMG!! by Half+a+dent · · Score: 2, Funny

      "All you've done in essence, is taken *FAIR USE* clips, and very neatly strung them together to where "ZOMG" you can *watch* the whole thing."

      Oh you mean like joining all the 30 second daily video clips from p0rn sites before file sharing became popular - now I can understand!

  3. when will someone copyright static??? by ganjadude · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone should copyright the files that the MPAA is loading as fake files and than sue the MPAA for releasing copyrighted material, I wonder if false representation of these files would also fall in line.... any takers???

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  4. Aaah, the joys of freedom! by susano_otter · · Score: 1, Funny

    This, by the way, is what the unregulated Internet looks like: the rich and powerful perpetrating their own rough justice upon the masses, unencumbered by any law or rule.

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  5. They can have my IP... by NineNine · · Score: 5, Funny

    They can have my IP. I just use whatever wide-open wireless network is available. Often, that's my town's free wireless program. Have fun, MPAA.

  6. Re:Today's word is entrapment by meta-monkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is why a police officer posing as a prostitute won't ask for money, or make the intial offer.

    That's why I don't have sex with cops. It's too much of a pain having to initiate all the time.

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  7. Obligatory by BarlowBrad · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet America, MPAA torrents you!

  8. Surely They Couldn't... by toejam316 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its baiting. Its like saying "HEY! HE STOLE MY CAKE!" "The cake was left completely unprotected with a label on it saying "Free cake, Help yourself"." "Doesn't matter, he took it!" "It wasn't even cake. It was gruel.".
    Lets face it, what do they have agaisnt them? They cant really do anything legally, can they. They're not even downloading the damn movie/music/show, they're downloading the 350mb garbage file. Now, if they could prosocute because of that and confiscate the computer, what if I decided I was funny and uploaded a torrent of me taking a bath butt naked to TPB and then named it somthing like "Pokemon Season 4 EP 2". Would that grant Nintendo the right to press charges and demand sezuire of their computer? Hell no. All it would be worth is maybe forking your own eyes out. Seriously, this is just blatant abuse, and any Judge/Jury stupid enough to give this crap a foot hold might as well just say "Your exempt from the law. GO WILD!".
    Thank god I'm in NZ, where the copyright laws are less crappy, and the MPAA cant do jack shit directly to me :D.

  9. Yeah. by warrax_666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was looking for the fake LOTR torrent and accidentally got the real one. Bloody annoying.

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