HBO attacking torrents

[mzkhadir]

DIY News writes "HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome. In addition to an older tactic of offering bogus downloads that never complete, HBO is now obstructing the downloads offered by other people. HBO runs peers that tell the tracker they have all the chunks of the show, but then send garbage data when a downloader requests a chunk. While the bogus peers can be detected, it will take much longer to download shows."

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/hbo_attacking_bittorrent.html

 

[sonz70]

noooo..they actually found a real way to fight back

 

[Toonces]

well aren't torrents inherently self regulating?

those which are corrupted won't be seeded? Plus sites can have comments to tell potential users about the validity...

or so I'm told

 

[FoBoT]

aww, so sad, pirates are weeping

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: UNESC0
well aren't torrents inherently self regulating?

those which are corrupted won't be seeded? Plus sites can have comments to tell potential users about the validity...

or so I'm told

More or less. It's very obvious what groups are providing legit torrents, and the clients will block peers that seed phony data very quickly(so they won't significantly impact download times).

 

[WhiteKnight]

I pay for HBO but I find it a lot more convenient to just get the torrents of Rome. I hope that this doesn't become a problem. I'm not supporting pirating, but as far as I'm concerned if I'm paying for it my conscience is clear when I DL.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

dosen't azureus automaticly blacklist IPs that that give out corupt data?

 

[rh71]

Good thing I don't want Rome.

 

[Anubis]

priviate trackers FTW

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: rh71
Good thing I don't want Rome.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: rh71
Good thing I don't want Rome.

naw, just rent + burner ftw!!! screw u hbo! lol

yea they are getting really overzealous with the torrent spamming. they did it to deadwood too

 

[ironcrotch]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
dosen't azureus automaticly blacklist IPs that that give out corupt data?

yeah I think so.. GJ hbo, I'm gonna dl Rome just to try it out now.

 

[imported_Phil]

Ah, PeerGuardian. So very, very useful.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
dosen't azureus automaticly blacklist IPs that that give out corupt data?

yep

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

PeerGuardian, updated blocklists, and updated ranges from PB torrent comments FTW

 

[DainBramaged]

somehow, if i wanted rome, i could get it

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
somehow, if i wanted rome, i could get it

That is the statement that all those big groups will never truly understand.

 

[necine]

Rome is a good show. And come on now, they'll never stop us from downloading whatever we want. It's impossible.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
I pay for HBO but I find it a lot more convenient to just get the torrents of Rome. I hope that this doesn't become a problem. I'm not supporting pirating, but as far as I'm concerned if I'm paying for it my conscience is clear when I DL.

comcast on demand?