Seems that 25% of the files on the pirate bay are not what they appear to be.
Fake video files are being posted by the media groups.
Fake software files are being posted by malware folk.
The idea, and I like it, is to make it just too much of a pain in the arse to use the pirate bay. What if 50% of the files you try and download are not what they purport to be? You'd get pretty pissed off soon enough.
Obviously, bit torrent piracy is only a very very very small subsection of copyright infringement, but if it pushes a few people over to a pay model, then that is great.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...-are-fakes.ars
Would be very very easy to flood porn piracy places with these fake files, but obviously companies involved wouldn't make as much as they do with the legal blackmail model currently being championed.