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Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates
An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak reports that Warner Brothers UK is hiring college students with an IT background to participate in an internship that will pit them against pirates on the Web in an effort to crack down on illegal digital distribution. The intern will literally be on the front-lines of the epic battle against pirated content, ensnaring users in incriminating transactions, issuing takedown requests, and causing general frustration amongst the file-sharing population on the Internet."
Where are all the anti-anti-pirates?
Sounds like a sweet deal! I'll just copy that to my USB hard drive...
What would Brian Boitano do?
It may be anti-climactic, but how about anti-climatic? Are anti-pirates good or bad for global warming?
Have you ever used BitTorrent? [X] -- Congratulations you are hired!
Better hope /b doesn't get a list of those interns. It would be really awful if someone were to leak a list of the chosen interns, post it to 4chan, and then have them torture and harass them until they curl up in the fetal position, crying.
I'm not sure court cases can be described as epic...
I care not for your karma and your mod points.
anti-anti pirate-pirate-pirates?
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Wow. I used to think being a dorm RA was the fast-lane to friendlessness, but clearly this is worse.
My grandmother told me, that when the Nazis took over Luxemburg (our country), there were people who collaborated with the Nazis. They were called “Gielemännchen“ (yellow mankins), and often wore yellow rain coats. Everyone hated them.
Wanna know what happened to them when the Nazis were gone?
They were brutally killed by the villagers. Every single one of them. Often in cruel ways and with blunt objects.
So beware, if you dare to collaborate with the enemy. Cause they might not be there, when we come for you later.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
You could always watch it on hulu.
HAHAHAHA, ok sorry could not keep a straight face.
"I was young, and I needed the money!"
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
good point. they should have to prove you seeded 100% of the file before your guilty of infringement.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Oh, that's just creative accounting. Why pay taxes on a profit when you can claim it as a loss and still get the money?
I am become
If a pirate and an anti-pirate collide, do we get a large release of energy, and could this be a way of powering the planet. No more need for fossil fuels...
"I was young and I needed the money" isn't what it used to be...
OK, so they simply should do it to all people, and the piracy problem would be solved soon. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.