The demise of one fake flooding company is applauded, luddites have no place on the internet.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1019Overpeer started operations in mid-2002. Contracted by the major recording labels, it was responsible for flooding major P2P networks with corrupt music files. With enough corrupt data injected into the major P2P networks, it was believed users would become discouraged with file-sharing head back to the music stores.
With the file-sharing population continuing to rise and polluted files an insignificant nuisance rather than deterrence, Loudeye announced yesterday the discontinuation of Overpeer. With Overpeer gobbling potential profits and yielding no tangible benefits for the music industry, Loudeye stated they are “restructuring” their business and will “focus our business on growth opportunities with digital
distribution.”
In the end, Overpeer's efforts have become little more than an interesting footnote in the history of file-sharing.
I would open a case of beer to celebrate this but unfortunately this company never bothered our network, this activity is carried out by Macrovision Smokeblower Networks and is still in operation, its particularly useless against the 1.9 dll patch and hopefully will be fully redundant when the 2.0 arrives.
I heard Macrovisions Ripguard protection for dvd,s was cracked too (Anydvd ) perhaps they need a lesson in economics and supplying defeated systems to their customers.. learn the hard way Alfred.
