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File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot

Posted by Soulskill on from the oh-bother dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The administrator of file-sharing site UploaderTalk shocked and enraged his userbase a few days ago when he revealed that the site was nothing more than a honeypot set up by a company called Nuke Piracy. The main purpose of the site had been to gather data on its users. The administrator said, 'I collected info on file hosts, web hosts, websites. I suckered $#!&loads of you. I built a history, got the trust of some very important people in the warez scene collecting information and data all the time.' Nobody knows what Nuke Piracy is going to do with the data, but it seems reasonable to expect lawsuits and the further investigation of any services the users discussed. His very public betrayal is likely meant to sow discord and distrust among the groups responsible for distributing pirated files."

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  1. Good thing no one used it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, UploaderTalk is a no-name site.

    1. Re:Good thing no one used it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Gotta agree there. I've more or less gotten out of that life-style and only occasionally keep track of file-sharing news when it was something big. I'd never heard of this guy or his sites.

      That said, now that this story is Slashdotted... what will the Internet vigilantes do to this guy?

    2. Re: Good thing no one used it by Yaur · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Tbqh this doesn't pass the sniff test. More likely scenarios: 1) its a hoax/false flag and piracy nuke is the target. 2) He got a c&d and thinks that pretending that it was an anti piracy thing all along will help him with the lawsuit.

    3. Re: Good thing no one used it by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Except it won't because

      1.-The clueless will never hear of this guy, and

      2.-The ones that know WTF they are doing and put up the most files don't hang around sites that look like they were coded by a 14 year old girl.

      Most likely all the "data" he collected is a bunch of clueless wannabes trying to play big fish in a teeny tiny pond and won't be worth shit.

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      ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
    4. Re: Good thing no one used it by jodido · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As opposed to a 14-year-old boy? Girls can't code?

  2. Implicit permission? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So for the months that the site was active these files (and links) were being shared with the implicit permission of the copyright umbrella groups? Neat. Bless 'em.

  3. Whaaa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are no important people in the warez scene. That's why they can't stop it.

  4. serious ? by Spaham · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they were anything serious they wouldn't have gloated that way.
    Sounds so much like a whining kid trying to annoy people...

  5. Re:Don't you believe it. by BradleyUffner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not when you have to go through the "justice" system.

    If you are a copyright holder, or acting on his/her/its behalf, and you seed a torrent for me to download, you have, in fact, given me the file. Since you are the copyright holder, that file was given lawfully. You cannot now turn around and sue me for taking from you what you have lawfully given. Your harm, such that there is, is entirely self inflicted.

    Honeypots are a useful tool to learn techniques that the other side uses, but they are, by and large, useless as a technique to sue over copyright infringement.

    IANAL

    Shachar

    They won't sue you for downloading the torrent, they will sue you for uploading to others without permission.