“Saw” Director Recruits ‘Army’ to Post Fake Torrents
Written by enigmax on October 02, 2008Are you the director of some high profile movies, feel you have a piracy problem but no longer do business with MediaDefender? Do you want to fail, badly? Then maybe you should follow the lead of Darren Bousman, director of the Saw movie sequels - and ask members of the public to upload fakes files on BitTorrent sites.
Darren Bousman, director of Saw II, III, IV, and no stranger to scenes of slaughter, has been caught up in his very own BitTorrent bloodbath. On the official forum for his up-coming movie Repo! the Genetic Opera, Bousman has been rallying support (pic, since it’s deleted) among his forum fans (known as the ‘Repo Army’) to become some kind of highly motivated, organic peer-to-peer version of MediaDefender.
Bousman details his brilliant plan in the forum post:
People will copy and burn the REPO CD and put it out on the web on something called TORRENT SITES. What this means to the movie is devastating. Basically - those who MIGHT have bought the soundtrack will instead download it for free… Thus hurting the soundtrack, and the movie. So what can you do?
Upload FAKE REPO albums to TORRENT sites under the REPO name. Meaning basically people will go online to a TORRENT site and try to search for REPO. They will find it - but alas it wont be REPO. It will be something else… If enough people do this - it becomes harder to STEAL the album.
Pain, something found in abundance in the Saw movies, was evident in the disorganized battle-plan that followed. Technical discussion began, noting the need for a good fake album to have the same number of tracks as the real version. Other suggestions to thwart the evil pirates include renaming and seeding random songs, and uploading audio recordings which preach the importance of buying the album.
After someone pointed out that people would complain about fake torrents in the comments section of torrent sites, solutions offered included the Army posting its own comments saying that the fake isn’t really a fake, and posting on real torrents to say that they were the fakes. Both techniques were doomed to fail before they began.
One of our favorite posts was the user who offered to spam the Ares Galaxy network on her own, and unwittingly came up with the basis of a usable slogan for the fakes campaign: “Wait a minute, did Darren just ask us to essentially Rick-Roll people in the name of Repo? Hell yes.”
Sadly, even with an army of completely well-intentioned and dedicated fans plus a great slogan, victory isn’t guaranteed. After posting some fake torrents on The Pirate Bay, it didn’t take long for the negative comments from regular Pirate Bay users to build up, and the torrents were removed. Despite many attempts by the Army at countering with some fake comments of their own. The ranks of the general public Repo Army went into battle against just a few pirates but were completely unprepared, and suffered a bloody end that would’ve made Jigsaw proud.
One user seemed to be a bit more aware, posting, “You can keep it secret or whatever method you want, it’s not going to work. You can’t fool a pirate that easy, if we just could get scene access and pre it, so it looks real.”
Right now, the fans have regrouped and are currently marking real Demonoid torrents as containing a virus, in order to get them removed. It doesn’t seem to be working.
The Repo Army doesn’t act purely against BitTorrent, since it had been previously ordered to “Attack YouTube” by messaging anyone on the site who uploads any part of the album, and ordering them to take the clip down. Some fans are even creating Repo anti-piracy videos:
In the meantime the fans have ensured that the soundtrack in question, Repo! The Genetic Opera, is currently at 22 in Amazon’s bestsellers chart, largely thanks to 25 five-star reviews, which currently represent 100% of the total reviews on this album. Apparently it’s easier to fool Amazon than the average BitTorrent site.
Thanks to Charax
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I want my own personal army too!
So it’s just fair for us to strike back at the inflated “User” rating at Amazon. Don’t mess with the interwebs.
Hey guys, I make lotsa money and I want all of you (that make no money) to defend my money! So.. rally up and go spam shit..
Can anybody say Cult?
Oh and uh.. btw.. I didnt ‘f*cking fail’. Im going to download the album (I dont care to listen to it) and share it despite your childish cult following.
Oh and uh.. btw.. sales dont mean more theatrical attention.. idiot.
Great post, enigmax! (although you WILL want to take screencaps of those posts, because he’s been known to nuke threads on the forum once he’s been exposed)
Seriously, they discussed this on a PUBLIC FORUM and didn’t expect to be found out….
Well, should I be afraid or what? Given he actually found a bunch of people to do his dirty work, does this group consist of fans of his movies? If so good luck with those morons.
At least I know now that I’ll never download anything that has REPO as a group tag.
REPO ARMY = FAIL!!!!!!!!!
Oh man. Saw sucked. If I wanted to watch people being tortured for 1.5 hours I would download the real thing.
Should be interesting to see what happens to that five star review album once all them angry TPB users get there devilish hands all over it.
Thanks for the laugh Torrentfreak, its always fun to watch people like them trip all over themselves and fail.
I don’t even know about the title being talked about in the article. I don’t think the average person cares about his stupid army.
what a bunch of queers. don’t f*ck with teh internetz, you “fans” are as bad as the politicians backing the bailout bill. Sheep.
What a bunch of lifeless noobs…
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B001FWXOBO/ref=pr_pb_cm_cr_acr_img?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
arrr pirates. lets give it teh real review mates.
Don’t you dare steal Repo, but it’s ok to steal a Skinny Puppy song to tell people not to steal Repo.
Where can I join?
“You can’t fool a pirate that easy, if we just could get scene access and pre it, so it looks real.”
They’re not going to get fakes on to the scene…
I tried telling them that, Anon - how between Ratings, the Scene and Comments it’s damn-near impossible to get fakes out to a wide audience, but my posts got deleted (one of the remaining posts references it)
Guess they don’t like hearing all their plans are worth less than shit.
yeah i left a bad review. what a bunch of bitches.
There are SO many spelling and grammar mistakes in that youtube video I don’t even want to begin to get started.
We need to start making new reviews on Amazon, then. Anyways, this is just funny. And obviously, people who ever want to do such a stupid thing number very few; (almost) nobody wants to suck up to some self money-grubber.
Roze
http://www.28chan.org/fs/ - (a file-sharing discussion board)
Stupid goth-loving fanBOIS. The worst album and the worst sheep herding forum I have ever seen..
UNBELIEVABLE. Seriously.
i really didnt give a shit until that youtube video pissed me off..
now ima do something about it.
the swarm will deciminate you.
“You can keep it secret or whatever method you want, it’s not going to work. You can’t fool a pirate that easy, if we just could get scene access and pre it, so it looks real.”
Hahaha.
Fanboys & Fangals can be such humongous turds.
not FAKE TORRENTS! Whatever will we do?
Just did a quick search and this is what i found (wihtout even looking too hard)
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1638843/3359829/
When will they learn??
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