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Originally Posted by DamianJ
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.
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.
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I went to a media production convention last year where mid-size studios talked about how the combat ThePirateBay and other bittorrent sites by uploading files that have the same name as the film they produced, same size and length, but only allow the first 2 minutes of the file to be viewable then they distort the rest of the video with a message telling the viewer where to legally buy the video.
They said it works because the bittorrent downloaded gets frustrated with only finding bogus films and gives up. They claim it has increases sales greatly. They also said they create many variants for uploads to the bittorrent servers so that the chances of a downloader getting one of their distorted films is very high.