SKIRMISHER

As many active users or downloaders of exciting free movies, games and software via torrent find recently, fake torrents courtesy of the staunch defenders of overpriced software and media like the MPAA and the RIAA, are becoming such an RPITA (royal pain in the ass). It’s a great thing here’s Fenopy, and its Fakefinder, to the rescue.

The actual .torrent links for these fake files are blocked, and FakeFinder serves an informational purpose only. It is actually quite amusing to browse through these fake files and trackers. The companies that host these anti-piracy trackers came up with some interesting hostnames like “dirtydevils.cyberbox.com.br” and “bittorrent.isthebe.st“.

Although most of the IPs of these fake trackers are already blocked by blocklist software like PeerGuardian, they still manage to collect the IP addresses of thousands of users who do fall for this trap. Most torrent site admins are aware of these fakes, and remove them as soon as they are uploaded. It is kind of a paradox. On the one hand anti-piracy organizations send thousands of takedown requests to torrent sites, while they upload fake files with similar titles themselves.

With FakeFinder, devoted pirates like yourself have a better fighting chance at spotting fakes, so you can keep the gnashing of teeth over downloading the AVI files of the latest Oscar hopefuls at a bare minimum.

via TORRENT FREAK

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