Piracy Investigators Infiltrate Private Torrent Sites
Written by enigmax on April 12, 2007In March, TorrentFreak published an article which aimed to answer the question ‘Are Private BitTorrent Trackers Safe?’ Now, an internet piracy investigator has admitted that his organisation has successfully infiltrated private BitTorrent trackers and is actively collecting information.
Speaking with Guardian Unlimited primarily regarding piracy counter-measures, Peter Anaman, a senior internet investigator for legal firm Covington and Burling has admitted that his organisation has infiltrated unnamed private BitTorrent tracker sites and shares their method of gaining access;
“Many groups didn’t start off as private. They became private because they felt threatened, so we were able to get in when they were open” he said.
Anaman indicated that his company maintains a network of contacts who help it gain access to additional private sites, although he isn’t forthcoming about what happens while they’re there, other than information gathering.
With a nod towards the increasing difficulty of getting a membership on certain private BitTorrent trackers Anaman added, “Once you’re in, you never take action. You just listen”
In 2005, a successful infiltration operation masterminded by the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) led to the shutdown of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker after they breached the Family Entertainment Act with their involvement in the internet pre-release of Star Wars: Episode III.
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ummm must be a helluva slick trojan if it slips through all the hardware & software firewalls i run silently and un-noticed..impossible i say
I’m still in for Beeper Cranker Pro v7.0!! lolz
Till you knock on my door, I’ll be downloading. Come get me. =p
Fear doesn’t work. Sorry!
Beeper Cranker? Christ, show some class. Swamping someone’s beeper/phone is about as impressive as keying your teacher’s car. You’re not proving anything, and you’re making the other party look like the good guy. If you can’t be even vaguely mature, intelligent, and productive, then just get back on the bench and leave the fight to the big kids.
Well if you are fucking supid enough to by the shit they advertise more fool you!!!!
internet privacy act of 1995,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Privacy_Act
HAHAHA, every1 saying americans arent all rich…. Fair play, you complain about rent and having 10 bucks in your bank account, but you really have NO idea what it is to be broke, think about being kicked out your place (even tho you have a full-time job[coz its just not enough money to even cover your rent]) you guys are bumb coz u are lazy asses with no jobs,imagine spending 3 weeks wondering the streets with an empty stomach as the cold wind rattles through whats left of your deminishing body. Now im from africa… and im sure many others that live in 3rd world countries can conform this, so to all 3rd world countries lets unite and stand against all that hike their prices and cause us more economic policies ( starting with the U.S gov.) …. im with the dude talking about beepers…….. \../d(^_^)b\../
[quote comment="86037"]I’m still in for Beeper Cranker Pro v7.0!! lolz[/quote]
equipped and ready for duty!!!! \../(^_^)\../
- well we’ve let the government control us for long….
-I think its time the people start looking out for eachother
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i just read the big about putting a trojan on a flim download lol that’s bracking the law privacy it is like listening in on phone call you carnt do that spying on wot ppl are doing and seeing wot they do bull shit all the way
and that law is in the us not the uk
To all the U.S. haters with false info: Living should really be a privilege.
To the African kid who walked the streets for 3 weeks and was too stupid not to find food: I have. In America.
what happened to the cassette tapes
I burned when I was ,where had been 18
I Think,İt is very nice information…
Hitchhiker Nation
If I knew enough shit about computers you bet your ass I would be ready with Beeper Cranker Pro v7.0.
What sucks the most is that like most tactics used by the government; it is making all those for downloading un-liscensed software, movies and music panic. Wtf!!! We should just band together for once and fend these fuckers off!
The one thing none of us are realizing is that there will always be hackers to crack a code and pirates will live forever!!!
oh, not all Americans are rich by the way. I certainly am not. I can barely make enough to pay my bills. But, its all good. Just stop being ignorant and dont panic!
Coff33-F!3nd|_|>, Thanks for taking the time to come in off the streets looking for food and post a nice comment about americans being rich lazy fat asses. If all else fails sale the computer that you are using to degrade us with to buy food. Geez. Or hey look up how to plant a seed. I will not hold you up any longer , I am sure one of the kids you have in your diamond mines has probably stopped working from exhaustion. Nothing a good beating will not fix though HuH
To Coff33-F!3nd|_|> and to the other American Haters:
Yeah, so we may be a little richer than most. So what? Is that really any reason to dislike us? It wasn’t as though we all just woke one day saying, “Yeah, today I think I’ll profit at the expense of the rest of the world”. We was born into the world just as you were, just under different circumstances. Is that our fault? Maybe u can find something better to do with your time than worrying about the Americans. As see_no_evil said, maybe you could go plant seeds or something. You must not be too bad off, sitting around chatting on your computer.
well it seem like they tryed something like that on torrentportal… first TP ad link to a company that clame to have full and free acsess to the files and then they charge you for a acsess id but that is not the worce now if you even try to enter torrentportal you get attacked by a trojan :( some one sould shoot the bastards or atleast hurt them very much!
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Well, you don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re” so you’re obviously only thirteen, so how about you just shut the fuck up and do the world a favor. Come back and insult someone else’s English, when your’s is immaculate.
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so you must be 14 years old then? :-)
it’s a favour, per favor.
and your’s should be yours.
haha. bibi
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