Talk Is Cheap

This (kinda uninformed seemingly and suprisingly) bit over on TorrentFreak about Media Defender’s  (anti-piracy group) using bogus file chunks and torrents to muddle up peoples downloads..

“Decoying and Spoofing are the most commonly known techniques that we employ. We send blank files and data noise that look exactly like a real response to an initiated search requests for a particular title.”

The funniest comments about it are those who indignantly cry out “Shouldn’t there be laws against spoofing and spamming? It’s just creating unecessary internet traffic.” as if their illegal downloading of copywrited material wouldn’t fall under the same classification?!

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