Look at Robtex:
http://www.robtex.com/dns/torrentq.com.html

It’s 100% clear that’s a fake BT tracker.

I have yet to come across one of those fakes =/

Peace. :)

As i’ve said, a few years later it’s safe to assume the contents of these emails in regards to tactics will be happening again, too much time and money was spent on what they were doing to simply abandon it all, i suggest they have waited a couple of years for the dust to settle, now doing it again.

Sounds like it, deffo, obviously they’ve had time to add and think of other tactics and some things have evolved, but some anti piracy nonsense is the same, their being wholly and perniciously criminal as though a law unto themselves where criminal law does not apply to them somehow in their grandiose delusions, to our simple civil and minor infractions, they behave criminally towards us, doing it before, since and still are.

Perhaps before authorities address us civil infractors of copyright, they should address the overt Criminality of these anti piracy oiks FIRST.

They behave criminal, we infract in a civil law context. Big difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaDefender

Looked to see if they are still hosted online, but not so it seems, perhaps somebody could re-pin them as a lot of people had a problem getting the content of the mbox file open in an email client, however much it’s explained in comments.

Still relevant intel’ in the present.

Here’s the torrent for the leaked emails on TPB.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3806944/MediaDefender.Mail.200612.200709-MDD

TF ran a lot on this but won’t link, all there if ye search though.

Peace. :)

Spelling error

STREAM THE FUCKING MOVIE,T.V. SHOW OR THE MUSIC!!!

ITS A HELL OF A LOT SAFER AN UR NOT FILLING UP GB`s OF HD SPACE….

STREAMING IS THE NEW HERE AND NOW!!!!

Secondly, Good article TF! Everybody was a noob once, so it’s good your helping them out.

Pz

1. check the 100% seeder in your utorrent when first loading. If the torrent is a fake, copy this to your scumbag list. Check any newtorrents against this list and just bail when you see anyone on your list. They use the same ip’s quite a bit.

2. during a download if the torrent is suspicious:
try playing the file from utorrent, often you can get vlc to play an avi at about 20% completed, this can often give you a clue as to whether it is any good.
If the files are compressed, pick the smallest R file and set utorrent to high priority for just that file. When the file completes open it and check the file for a password or multiple nesting either of which would indicate a probable fake. If so, bail and put the jerk in your asshole list.

Are you illiterate or just unable to type/copy URLs

More recently i’ve been seeing Scene sites and databases all over the place. It reminds me of a typical computer game, where at the beginning you need to fight the boss’ minions, then once they are all destroyed, the boss sticks his head out to attack but also leaves himself vulnerable.

In other words – if Scene groups are struggling to get their shit out because torrent servers are dropping like flies – the solution isn’t to try distributing it yourself.

Keep the Scene hidden – it’s our underground nature that keeps us safe whilst sharing sites/technologies come and go.

… or heres an idea – YOU COULD JUST DOWNLOAD IT FROM RLSLOG and have the benefits of faster speeds and the fact that it is 100% not malware unlike your solution.

And just so you know, rlslog files are put up from scene servers like almost all the rest of the content on torrent sites.

Users that know what a PreDB is are smart enough to not use public torrent sites.

They can’t even work out that a virus scanner doesn’t make them safe … as they look for “signs” of fake torrents (because spammers always put “signs” in there to alert users that they are spreading malware.

???

You are a noob of the worst kind – the kind that thinks he’s not a noob which leads to all sorts of screwups (many of which you dont notice like your OC now being part of a botnet) as you throw caution to the winds confident in your knowledge that you are a “puter expert”.

Demonoid is NOT A PRIVATE tracker, it indexes a large number public torrents. EXCEPT you will find out about fakes later than if you downloaded it from TPB. Meaning you might as well just download them from The Pirate Bay.

(Well OK it does have it’s own tracker however many of the torrents are indexed from public sources and apparently you’re too much of a newb to see the extremely obvious tag at Demonoid to indicate that they are publically indexed)

In the past I have come across a few video torrents that said I needed to download some sort of player after playing a few seconds and opened a page in Firefox. I noticed that every time that happened, the video was in the .mpg file format. So I only download .avi format unless it’s something hard to get and all I can find is the .flv format which plays fine in VLC media player (usually anime or an old t.v. series.)

@3 Jeff
["A co-worker of mine encountered a password protected torrent of Edge of Darkness from torrentz.com the other day, which was in the form of a WinRAR archive."]

I have come across that too, and sometimes the rar archive contains some sort of weird executable file that most likely contains a virus. That is why I NEVER download videos or music in winrared files. Only thing I download in the .rar format are pictures. I won’t even download t.v. shows in a .rar file because I prefer to download just the first episode to make sure the quality is good and what the description says it is, then I download the rest.
I also prefer to download only torrents that have a lot of positive comments. I find if most comments are positive the few that aren’t are just some dumb trolls. If I download a torrent without comments on the site, it’s usually porn, or something I’m having trouble finding, usually some sort of animated series.
These are my own guidelines I use for myself and I almost never get a fake file, except rarely for porn as a lot don’t have comments.

Keep’m comin’. :-)

In the meantime over on Demonoid:

Registrations are open

So, if you’re interested, Get Your Butt Over There!

Just one more reason why private trackers pwn public trackers lol.

Oh cool stuff!

No release group, proclaims “full movie” and a .wmv file are other warning flags. (not that fakers don’t ever use realistic-looking filenames.)

Apart from faster speed, better organisation, faster pre times, higher quality etc.

LOL, noobs.