How to find fake torrents uploaded by the MPAA

torrentfreak.com — The MPAA, RIAA and several anti-piracy organizations are constantly trying to trap people into downloading fake torrents. These torrents are hosted on trackers that are setup to collect IP addresses of all the 'pirates' who try to download these files. Jan 28, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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Closed Account Jan 29, 2007

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I is amazing that all of you are missing the obvious point. They are not necesarily going to get you for downloaing that fake torrent. (As of today, there have been ZERO lawsuits filed for people downloading files. Not one.) They ARE going to make a note that the person at IP is interested in pirating movies, and possibly specifically that movie. Then they monitor the other sites for that IP and see if they are sharing all other copyrighted material

krinn Jan 29, 2007

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Files get encrypted and the pieces get split up across hundreds of sites... sounds like gnunet <a class="user" href="http://gnunet.org">http://gnunet.org</a>

jungleman Jan 29, 2007

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Not to sound elitist, but make some friends and join a private torrent site. You'll never look back.Or simply purchase whatever it is you're trying to steal.

toomuchpete Apr 10, 2007

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@tweekster:Wrong on that point. Attempt is a gloss put on the criminal law, there's no such thing as "attempt" in terms of a civil suit. You can't sue someone for attempting (and failing) to cause you harm (infringe your copyrights, etc). You can be charged with attempting to buy drugs because that's a criminal violation, not a civil one.

holochik May 31, 2007