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MPAA Sets Up Fake Site to Catch Pirates

Posted by samzenpus on from the be-sure-to-include-your-social-security-number dept.

thefickler writes "Media Defender, a company which does the dirty work for the MPAA, has been caught setting up 'dummy' websites in an attempt to catch those who download copyrighted videos. The site, MiiVi.com, complete with a user registration, forum, and "family filter", offered complete downloads of movies and "fast and easy video downloading all in one great site." But that's not all; MiiVi also offered client software to speed up the downloading process. The only catch is, after it was installed, it searched your computer for other copyrighted files and reported back."

16 of 617 comments (clear)

  1. uh oh.... by SpaceballsTheUserNam · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just told all my friends about that site. Knew it was too good to be true.

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    1. Re:uh oh.... by Aneurysm · · Score: 5, Funny

      I reckon Christmas is the opposite of theft. You get loads of things for free from people. Also thieves go to prison and never see family, at Christmas you have to see family, whether you like it or not.

    2. Re:uh oh.... by Asztal_ · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, so I just run it on my virtual machine? cool.

    3. Re:uh oh.... by fractoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Record your own shows
      Cherry blossoms all around
      Upload and be sued.

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    4. Re:uh oh.... by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

      Moral of the story: Avoid anything to do with cricket.

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    5. Re:uh oh.... by AndersOSU · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think it started when Prometheus gave fire to the Greeks.

    6. Re:uh oh.... by DMoylan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Any moron can
      Write haiku. Just stop at the
      Seventeenth sylla

  2. Re:Entrapment or Honeypot? by martin_henry · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the worst kind of entrapment....the kind WITHOUT Catherine Zeta Jones.

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  3. ARE YOU A COP? by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cause you have to tell me if you are.

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    1. Re:ARE YOU A COP? by trewornan · · Score: 5, Funny
      The only point at which a cop cannot lie about anything is at trial.

      Your naivety amuses me.

  4. Re:Dateline NBC: To catch a paedo by TheDugong · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely you jest. They do that in the US Congress as well don't they?

  5. Re:Dateline NBC: To catch a paedo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    >Surely you jest.
    No I don't - and I told you, don't call me Shirley.

  6. Re:You see, children... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Funny

    his is why you should only use a reliable video piracy site

    Don't you mean a LEGAL video piracy site? Because you see... in Sweden, piracy (or at least linking to) IS legal :)

  7. Has Anyone Analyzed The Software? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can it be fooled into sending terabytes of reports of my noninfringing homemade porn (featuring just me) back to them?

  8. Re:Entrapment or Honeypot? by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 2, Funny
    Then they're on the TV parking cars on the street with the keys in them so people can steel them.

    I hear that's how the deLorean was invented.

  9. Option #3 by JonTurner · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot option #3. Kill them and bury the bodies in a shallow grave behind the shed.

    But if you do, please shoot a video and post a torrent. That would be entertaining.