Thanks to malware infecting their machines, last year some BitTorrent users were presented with a screen claiming that they had been caught infringing copyright by groups such as the RIAA and MPAA and needed to pay cash to settle. Now, thanks to leaked documents from the company that processed the credit card payments, we can see how many people fell for the scam.
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With the United States Department of Justice and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcements (ICE) seizing domains of file sharing sites left and right, BitTorrent trackers now have a new reason to worry. Although only a short term win for anti pirates, a domain seizure can disrupt a site’s operations and cause confusion amongst its loyal user base – in short, it’s a nuisance that tracker staff would like to avoid if possible.


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New project taps 100 million monthly active users to compare download traffic, upload traffic, BitTorrent traffic, and HTTP traffic so it “can answer questions like: I live in this city in the world–it could be anywhere, literally anywhere–which ISP should I use?”
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Says its Internet account was “identified as having been used recently to copy and/or distribute illegally” the movie “The Green Hornet” and warns the search engine giant that copyright infringement violates its ISP’s terms of service and could lead to “limitation or suspension” of its Internet service.
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Standard operating procedure: file "John Doe" cases against alleged file-swappers and then demand $1,500 settlements to make the charges go away.
Nonstandard operating procedure: don't file any lawsuits at all but ask those who have shared your company's porn through BitTorrent to voluntarily pay you $1,000.
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