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Find out the host, send them a DMCA takedown requests. If it's on BitTorrent, you can get crazy about it and monitor people who share it and send them letters/
by heavyset_go 4y ago
Find out the host, send them a DMCA takedown requests.
If it's on BitTorrent, you can get crazy about it and monitor people who share it and send them letters/notify their ISP, but I think that's a lost cause.
Similarly with other P2P networks, you often make direct connections with sharers, and you can use IP addresses to report them to ISPs.
That or you can do what studios/rights holders so with movies and poison the well with broken downloads, bogus files, etc.
You can obfuscate binaries, it's just a matter of how determined crackers are and how much effort they want to expend cracking them.
If you want to prevent this, tie your product into remote services that require authentication with your servers. New features are now implemented in the cloud, and the binaries you ship are just clients to those remote features.
- no_time 4y ago>That or you can do what studios/rights holders so with movies and poison the well with broken downloads, bogus files, etc. Can you provide some proof of this happening? I'm curious because I've always thought about this but never actually encountered it in the wild.
- heavyset_go 4y agoLook up movies that haven't been released yet or were just released in theaters on public BitTorrent trackers and you'll see a bunch.
- banana_giraffe 4y agoI've not seen studios do this (which doesn't prove they don't, of course) It is, however, _very_ common for different groups to use unreleased or recently release movies to release a video that's just a sign post. Either the URL shown in the video leads to a malware site, or a site that charges you to see the full video, itself a scam of some degree. For instance, you'll see this: "name": "A Man Called Otto.2023.720p.BluRay.x264-WDC", "files": [ {"name": "A Man Called Otto.2023.720p.BluRay.x264-WDC/A Man Called Otto.2023.720p.BluRay.x264-WDC.avi", "size": 670547315}, {"name": "A Man Called Otto.2023.720p.BluRay.x264-WDC/Readme.txt", "size": 223} The AVI is unplayable with some generic message, and the readme has something like "to watch the movie, use this link to create an account", and the resulting website will eventually ask for your credit card for "verification purposes"
- no_time 4y agoYeah good catch. I couldn't find an example on public trackers, but the one you mentioned does exist on DHT. At least it's not made by the "official" WDC. For the curious, the file directs the victim to the link below. Open at own risk. echo "otto-dellac-nam-a/8545047tt/hctaw/zyx.llufseivom//:sptth" | rev