Torrents Users Falling Victim To Fake Data Attacks

[GhostShip]

I noticed this usual publicity story for the anti P2P companies, nothing much has changed.

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2054391,00.html

Companies specialising in countermeasures to P2P piracy, like MediaDefender, have been injecting fake files into the network to try to make Bittorrent too tiresome for people to use. "These are open trust networks, and they can't authenticate all of the material on the network," says Saaf, who works for the owners of the pirated content.

Decoys have also been used in other P2P networks that are good at distributing large files, including Gnutella, eDonkey and Ares. A decoy might contain garbage, making it useless, or promotional content such as trailers, rather than the real product.
Another counter-piracy technique is when only 97% of a large file is uploaded. The remaining file parts are never released, meaning that people spend hours downloading most of the file, only to have it pause, endlessly and infuriatingly, just before the end. (These are sometimes called "stuck torrents".)

In addition to indexing, Fenopy runs Fake Finder, a service using a complex algorithm to automatically identify fake torrent files. Visitors can read Fake Finder for free, and it publishes an online interface so that other indexing and tracker sites can automatically weed the fake torrents out of their search results.

To the dismay of companies that engage in interdiction its clear the public are getting more aware of them and how to defeat their efforts, it seems we are treated to a new variant of this "we are winning" story each week, the truth is they are being soundly beaten and are finding it hard to justify their expensive costs.

This network of course is a thorn in their side and they cannot even pretend that they are having any effect 

[SamSeeSam]

Well torrents from reliable sources are also a good way tocounter this, and these are found with a little effort.
They also seem to be making fake sources, as in winmx. A torrent I uploaded had about 10 people out of which three were downloading, and 7 had about 90% complete, in the first 5 mins when my speed was 10k up lmao

Asking people to comment about the torrent will make people aware if the torrent is fake or not

Cheers