HBO Attacking BitTorrent 844
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."
That's Funny (Score:5, Funny)
Quid novi? (Score:2, Funny)
give it time (Score:5, Funny)
this message is brought to you by HBO (Score:3, Funny)
Rome wasn't built in a day (Score:5, Funny)
Good things take time, so I guess Bit Torrent users will just have to wait a little longer for legitimate video files to become available if they desperately want to see this show.
Re:Pure BS (Score:3, Funny)
No dude, that's on showtime [sho.com]
level3 (Score:1, Funny)
Don't fucking do it, cocksuckers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's Funny (Score:1, Funny)
HBO has no reason to like that I d/l Rome instead of waiting for it.
(-: Half the reason I started to follow TV series on the net was to see the programs before it is shown locally -- and then drop hints to people. My daily act of evil! :-)
(I post Anon not because I am afraid of getting sued, but because I feel embarrassed to admit that I enjoy Rome.)
Re:Thankfully (Score:4, Funny)
in Russia...you own the Torrents?
ah hmm....oki dokie
Re:They are giving away DVD's of Rome (Score:3, Funny)
'Why?', asks the situational ethicist.
Re:My Infringement Notice (Score:5, Funny)
According to me, 2.4k of 359,196k is 6 ppm (or about 0.000006%), and as a result, is far less than is allowed by fair use (10%, depending on context). As this is the case, I feel fully justified in offering the following statement as payment for the half a frame which was downloaded:
Fuck off, you tit.
Thanks and regards,
Re:The low bastards! (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks, but we got "What a bunch of assholes" the first time around; no need for redundancy.
Or as Caesar might say... (Score:5, Funny)
"I came, I saw, I 0wned your BitTorrent tracker"
Of course, after watching a few episodes Rome, I've learned that in Ancient Rome they actually spoke English anyway. Who started this Latin rumor?
Re:That's Funny (Score:1, Funny)
And here comes the bad analogies. (Score:4, Funny)
The fact that someone compared DLing a TV-show with free cheese-samples, in a somewhat (but definitely not entirely) valid way, doesn't mean you should continue to use it.
First off. Media: digitizable, zero-cost reproducable, non tangeable goods. Cheese: actual, physical, unreproducable goods. Now copying something that inherently reproducable costs noone nothing. Stealing physical goods will result in expenses for the producer or store.
Please stop equating these to fundamental different things. Foe.
Re:Damn edit button (Score:3, Funny)
How can you be so sure, Mr. Smartguy? Maybe he just listed his address with roman numerals (he was downloading Rome, after all). His address was really 010.010.010.010. Think about it...
Re:Or as Caesar might say... (Score:4, Funny)
I think it was Biggus Dickus, but I could be wrong.
Re:They are giving away DVD's of Rome (Score:2, Funny)
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
Sigged!
Re:That's Funny (Score:2, Funny)
What if you can feed yourself on free cheese, will you still be inclined to buy it? Most people aren't going to pay for something they can get free.
two words.
"Bottled Water"
Re:That's the way it goes (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That's Funny (Score:3, Funny)
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