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Torrent poisoning is intentionally sharing corrupt data or data with misleading, deceiving file names using the BitTorrent protocol.This practice of uploading fake torrents is sometimes carried out by anti-infringement organisations as an attempt to prevent the peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing of copyrighted content, and to gather the IP addresses of downloaders.
In 2005 HBO began "poisoning" torrents of its show Rome, by providing bad chunks of data to clients. [31] In 2007 HBO sent cease and desist letters to the Internet Service Providers of BitTorrent users. Many users reported receiving letters from their ISP's that threatened to cut off their internet service if the alleged infringement continued ...
Torrent poisoning; References This page was last edited on 12 July 2021, at 22:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Torrent poisoning; References ... BitTorrent, also referred to simply as torrent, is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), ...
Despite the troubles weathered by the entertainment industry, file sharing and torrent websites were ruled legal in Spain in March 2010. The judge responsible for the court ruling stated that " P2P networks are mere conduits for the transmission of data between Internet users, and on this basis they do not infringe rights protected by ...
Torrent poisoning; References Further reading. A Quantitative Analysis of the Gnutella Network Traffic - Zeinalipour-Yazti, Folias - 2002 ... Wikipedia® is a ...
The RIAA has apparently in the past been revealed to and may have admitted to the practice of spoofing, deliberately flooding P2P networks with "junk music". [23] [24] A further reference to such activity was discovered when computer software and source code along with emails were stolen from US Company "Media Defender"; [25] their software was designed to facilitate "interdiction" on all the ...
On September 16, 2007, MediaDefender-Defenders released a 25-minute excerpt of a phone conversation between the New York Attorney General's office and MediaDefender as a torrent on The Pirate Bay. MediaDefender-Defenders claims in information released with the phone conversation that they have infiltrated the "internals" of the company.