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Is there a prediction market going for whether the MPAA is eventually found to be behind this?

by caslon 5y ago

tyingq 5y ago
"When viewed through a hex editor, the executables also contain a racial epithet that’s repeated more than 1,000 times followed by a large, randomly sized block of alphabetical characters." Seems like it wouldn't be a good look for them if so.
- caslon 5y ago
  Has the MPAA ever been particularly prone to acting ethically? Throwing in some slurs to throw people off their trail seems very much like something they would do. The MPAA itself has been accused of copyright infringement on multiple occasions. In 2007, the creator of a blogging platform called Forest Blog accused the MPAA of violating the license for the platform, which required that users link back to the Forest Blog website. The MPAA had used the platform for its own blog, but without linking back to the Forest Blog website. The MPAA subsequently took the blog offline, and explained that the software had been used on a test basis and the blog had never been publicized.[121][122] Also in 2007, the MPAA released a software toolkit for universities to help identify cases of file sharing on campus. The software used parts of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, released under the General Public License, which stipulates that the source code of any projects using the distribution be made available to third parties. The source code for the MPAA's toolkit, however, was not made available. When the MPAA was made aware of the violation, the software toolkit was removed from their website.[123] In 2006, the MPAA admitted having made illegal copies of This Film Is Not Yet Rated (a documentary exploring the MPAA itself and the history of its rating system)[124] — an act which Ars Technica explicitly described as hypocrisy[125] and which Roger Ebert called "rich irony".[126]
opheliate 5y ago
Could also be a rival torrent site? I haven’t seen the full altered hosts file, but from the screenshots it would appear only TPB/proxies are listed. I can see a lot of people finding that they can’t access TPB and thinking, oh, I’ll use (e.g:) 1337x instead.
incompatible 5y ago
They are more interested in movies, I think.

Is there a prediction market going for whether the MPAA is eventually found to be behind this?

by caslon 5y ago

Is there a prediction market going for whether the MPAA is eventually found to be behind this?

"When viewed through a hex editor, the executables also contain a racial epithet that’s repeated more than 1,000 times followed by a large, randomly sized block of alphabetical characters." Seems like it wouldn't be a good look for them if so.

caslon 5y ago
Has the MPAA ever been particularly prone to acting ethically? Throwing in some slurs to throw people off their trail seems very much like something they would do. The MPAA itself has been accused of copyright infringement on multiple occasions. In 2007, the creator of a blogging platform called Forest Blog accused the MPAA of violating the license for the platform, which required that users link back to the Forest Blog website. The MPAA had used the platform for its own blog, but without linking back to the Forest Blog website. The MPAA subsequently took the blog offline, and explained that the software had been used on a test basis and the blog had never been publicized.[121][122] Also in 2007, the MPAA released a software toolkit for universities to help identify cases of file sharing on campus. The software used parts of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, released under the General Public License, which stipulates that the source code of any projects using the distribution be made available to third parties. The source code for the MPAA's toolkit, however, was not made available. When the MPAA was made aware of the violation, the software toolkit was removed from their website.[123] In 2006, the MPAA admitted having made illegal copies of This Film Is Not Yet Rated (a documentary exploring the MPAA itself and the history of its rating system)[124] — an act which Ars Technica explicitly described as hypocrisy[125] and which Roger Ebert called "rich irony".[126]

opheliate 5y ago

Could also be a rival torrent site? I haven’t seen the full altered hosts file, but from the screenshots it would appear only TPB/proxies are listed. I can see a lot of people finding that they can’t access TPB and thinking, oh, I’ll use (e.g:) 1337x instead.

incompatible 5y ago

They are more interested in movies, I think.