Pirate Bay Tricks Anti-Pirates with Fake Peers

[plentonimus]

As we know from last week is the piratebay cleaning torrents from fake trackers.

But now they are taking it to the next level.

The Pirate Bay is well aware of these pirate tracking outfits, and does what it can to give them a hard time. Reporting fake peers is one of the tricks they use. ... Polluting the evidence works like this. When a client asks for a list of peers who are downloading the same torrent, the tracker software automatically inserts several “random IP addresses” that are not in the swarm. They are based on existing sub-nets, but might be from people who may not even be aware that BitTorrent exists. This means that the evidence that’s being gathered by anti-piracy companies includes IPs that belong to people that were not downloading the movie or album they are accused of.

Read the whole article on Torrentfreak.com -->

I really love those piratebay guys...

[Aurion]

I guess we will be noticing more of those nice tehcniques from TPB since they are the first biggest public tracker got accused with false charges when this war started....Nice move of them honestly

[yoco]

TPB They really are amazing.

[vDD+wR]

great idea actually to hinder the organizations of catching ppl who ae downloading stuff from them.
i thought about supporting them by buying their TPB t-shirt, maybe for christmas.

[anon]

Just read the article myself before logging in to SB-I; it's a nice move indeed.

But won't that increase their overhead? They'll have to be prepared for the every time increasing traffic.