Originally Posted by Socks

Had a thought reading that other guys thread about stopping torrent and tube sites, and I had a thought.

What if a bunch of us made an effort to start a bunch of porn torrent and tube sites, small and completely illegal but with good intentions.

They would operate as fronts for their real mission - data collection. Put something tricky into the TOS so that by using the site for illegal activities they are breaking your terms, and record as much information about each user as possible.

Send heavy usage users threatening legal letters, without naming the specific sites they used, but make reference to all the porn things they downloaded, in as much detail as possible.

Hung Black Gay Gangbang 15 - 4.2gb downloaded
Cum Dumpsters Site Rip - 3.2gb downloaded
Fuck My Dirty Pussy 4 - 1.4gb downloaded

This will lead to divorces, news coverage, and lots of fear.. You don't even need to take them to court, just sending the letters would do enough damage.

Lots of parents would also be getting these letters, and banning their kids from using the internet too.

People always say they never go after the users, and with the inability to go after the site owners at this point, why not fuck with the users who are causing all this shit in the first place?

The other idea I had...

Some file formats have reserved space, that is ignored by the reader. A good example is jpg EXIF data. Other movie formats also have space that could be utilized in similar ways, and unless a reader was programmed specifically to find this data, it would pretty much be completely invisible.

Paysite owners could write small bits of encrypted data to their movies right before the movie gets sent to their customers, which would be harmless. However. If they went and uploaded that file to certain places, you could just download the file and find out information like: who originally downloaded it from your site, and their IP address (after decoding it). Of course if they sent it to a tube site it's harder, because it would be thrown away on re-encode.. But for newsgroups, rapidshare, megaupload, p2p, torrents, it would be fairly effective. There's obviously a number of "super uploaders" out there who spread this stuff.. If you stop them or strike fear of real life repercussions on them, perhaps it makes a dent. Also it would allow a real court case against an uploader, which would be a nice thing to see.

Thoughts?