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I had the same thought. TorrentFreak explains it quite nicely: http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfits-launch-attack-on-bittorrent-protocol-120519/ http://t

• SoftwareMaven 14y ago
  In other words, the techniques these anti-piracy outfits appear to be using to prevent people from sharing copyrighted movies could be illegal. If that is the case then the movie companies who hire these anti-piracy outfits may be complicit in cybersecurity crimes. I'm sure the DoJ will be handing out indictments in the very near future. <sarcasm/> It's unfortunate that the only data that really gets protected in the US is Hollywood's.
• StevenRayOrr 14y ago
  I do not pretend to understand very much of the original post. The TorrentFreak "translation" did make it a bit more clear, but I'm pretty much boiling this down to, "somebody is trying to poison the Internet -- if not now, then sometime soon". It's easy to forget how young a medium the Internet is and that there are going to be a lot of pitfalls along the way that we haven't begun to imagine. This seems to be one of those. I guess the question that I have is simple: what happens next?
  • tbundy 14y ago
    Maybe the group will be discovered and shamed, maybe it won't. I'm guessing the vast majority of Bittorrent users will never be affected.
• Eduard 14y ago
  Being stereotypically in favor of one side doesn't make you a great journalist.
  • tbundy 14y ago
    I'd agree, that alone would not indicate that someone is a great journalist.