Comments on: Fake torrents flooding Mininova

By: undercover.mike

undercover.mike — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:12:47 +0000

I thought the fake torrents were a recent phenomena. Having read this post, i see it’s being going on for over a year. Having spent 17 hours downloading Aliens.vs.Predator.Requiem[2007]DvDrip.AC3[Eng]-aXXo
and an other 17 downloading
Alien.vs.Predator-Requiem[2007]XviD.English[DVDRiP]-aXXo
really makes my day. I’ll spare you what i think of doing with such an uploader.
I guess it was fun while it lasted.
(And no… i’m not from any english speaking country)

By: kwfine

kwfine — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:40:22 +0000

>Urban wrote:
>but if you download a fake technicaly you are not pirating >anything. for instance if somebody sells you a “gun” and you >rob a bank with it .. but it turns out that it was just a >“banana” would you be charged with armed robbery?

Great point, urban!

By: PlagiarismToday » Attribution Problems Plague File Sharing

PlagiarismToday » Attribution Problems Plague File Sharing — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:53:52 +0000

[...] the misattribution is intentional. Both movie studios and record labels are known for flooding the file sharing networks with false files in an attempt to hinder the downloading of pirated material. Most of the time though, the [...]

By: premium financing

premium financing — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:23:48 +0000

Got here and seen your stuff – way to go!

By: MaZz

MaZz — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:56:32 +0000

to guido22,

about 90% of the fake torrents are named almost exactly the same as others, so it is hard to know/remember exactly which one you downloaded.

By: lemonade

lemonade — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:45:57 +0000

The MPAA and RIAA pay specialist companies to post fakes up on sites such as Limewire, and having learned the architecture of BT they have now started to target the Torrent community. This is aimed at annoying, frustrating, and closing down the average downloader and discouraging him from doing so again. These companies have an endless pot of money, so you can imagine how hard your job of getting a “new” torrent is now, especially with the paranoia of private trackers not letting you in, or being full etc. It’s much easier to just buy the normal DVD. Wait a couple of months and save your money and buy it…That Â£20 dollars for the DVD could save you $1000’s in a potential lawsuit….

By: Mortique

Mortique — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:09:28 +0000

Has anyone heard of any individual torrent users being sued by either the RIAA or MPAA? all i have heard of is torrent sites being busted, and the occasional empty threat directed at users on front pages. What sense does it make to bust individuals, when you could go after their torrent file sources?

By: guido22

guido22 — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:44:37 +0000

Hi i’m a moderator at mininova and would just like to say we do try to remove these fake torrents straight away, though we do need users to post these fakes in the forum, you don’t need to register or anything to post a link to the fake/forbidden torrents thread . If users do this it will greatly help us keep the site free of the formentioned types of rubbish + check comments before downloading it may save your temper as we are only an indexing site it is hard to moderate all of them as i am sure you can imagine f88k teh m88a/r88a

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 24 May 2006 22:15:53 +0000

Oh and by the way. A five second read on this post told me how arrogant you are.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 24 May 2006 22:13:43 +0000

Hey SyntaxError were you never a newbie? Get off your high horse and stop being such a twat! Instead of posting such I am so high and fucking mighty stuff why don’t you try helping people? and if you don’t fancy that just shut the fuck up cause nobody is interested in how clever you think you are.

By: Stealth

Stealth — Mon, 15 May 2006 01:17:32 +0000

Torrents are for the unwashed masses. Lucky for me I have distro access to several large IRC dumps >:)

By: SyntaxError

SyntaxError — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:09:56 +0000

I noticed a torrent claiming to be Alcohol 120% version 2.0 on mininova just yesterday.

A 5 second check of Alcohol’s homepage (www.alcohol-soft.com) will verify that the torrent is fake as hell, but unfortunately, the average BT user is too stupid to verify things like I did and it serves them right.

By: phishybongwaters

phishybongwaters — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:48:49 +0000

umm, yeah, downloading a fake is just like buying a bag of oregano from a “dealer” thinking it’s pot.

You still get nailed. It’s just like a sting, you didn’t know it wasn’t the actual release, therefore you are expecting it to be the actual release, therefore you are technically breaking the law.

Don’t flame me, i think it’;s retarded, but that’s how it works.

By: Hitman

Hitman — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:14:02 +0000

now the faking of torrents is goin to happen on most of the sites …u cant do much about it…just gotta be careful

By: Mongo

Mongo — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:49:04 +0000

If those are from the MPAA or RIAA then it’s more likely to be a “spoiling” campaign, backed up with the terror-tactics of releasing news stories like this one.

Seems like P2P is under fire on several fronts, and nobody knows who is firing the bullets any more.
We won’t know what’s really going on until the smoke clears.

Just everyone be as careful as you can, and help the guys who run the trackers to get through this shit.