MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents
t is no secret that the MPAA and other anti-piracy organizations track down alleged pirates by uploading fake torrents. Up until now it was always unclear where those files came from, and how to identify them. http://torrentfreak.com//images/mpaa-block.gifThe MPAA and other anti-piracy watchdogs try to trap people into downloading fake torrents, so they can collect IP adresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs. They hire a company to put up fake copies of popular movies, music albums, and TV series. They even use pirate like filenames such as “Battlestar Galactica S03E07 REPACK DSR XviD-ORENJi” and “Miami Vice[2006]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo“.
One of the btjunkie admins has found a unique way to identify trackers that host these fake files, which makes it easy to efficiently remove them.
Virtually all the servers that spread these fake files are located in Southern California and Las Vegas. The administrators of these servers follow patterns that make it easy to identify them. The content of the trackers and seed amounts make them stand out. There are more unique characteristics, but we wont reveal all the tricks because they could take counter measures. Here are some examples of servers that host and track fake torrents:
Tracker 1, Tracker 2, Tracker 3 & Tracker 4. (Screenshots: One & Two)
All the information was provided to me by one of the admins of btjunkie, who works together on this with other torrent site admins. He says that the MPAA and friends use a variety of tactics. The tracker will either stall everyone at around 90% or the content will just be a blank monochrome screen.
“I really think this is being done by professionals with a budget, that’s a lot of servers to setup and it takes some expertise to setup in the manner that they did it,” says the btjunkie admin. “I don’t think I really need to say who would spend money on something like this.”
Here are some good examples of how these fake torrents clutter up the search results. Virtually all of those X marked torrents are coming from the ip-ranges we mentioned, and are fake files. The good thing is that Torrentportal’s report system is well used by their users.
The server boxes that host these torrents fall in serveral ip-ranges, and are not yet blocked by blocklist software like peerguardian. Here are a few of the ranges that were discovered recently. You can easily add these to the blocklist of your torrent client (if it supports one), filewall, or blocklist manager.
The anti-piracy servers use hostnames like 101tracker.dhcp.biz, aplustorrents.qhigh.com, bitnova.squirly.info, bittorment.ocry.com, and pirate-trakkrz.leet.la. All these hostnames can be traced back to the same IP Ranges, these ranges contain possibly hundreds of fake trackers, so feel free to block them:
66.172.60.XXX, 66.177.58.XXX, 66.180.205.XXX, 209.204.61.XXX, 216.151.155.XXX
Note that it’s not only MPAA material that is hosted on these fake trackers. It is more likely that the servers are owned and operated by an organization that logs IP addresses for several copyright owners and or anti-piracy organizations. However, I think it is likely that the MPAA is one of them.
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Where'd you come by this?
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Nice report.
I never really knew the MPAA were getting that into it.
Thanks for the info.
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oh
that is very interesting
so that is the way they want to use
they will lose in the war
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Nice to be on the private trackers where its safer, for now.
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Yups ... was on the front page of digg today.
Btw what a sweet job. Gettin paid to make lame-ass torrent names and posting them on trackers here and there.
Upload fakes by day and leech real by night. That'd be one filesharing villain.
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that is very interesting good work
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This kind of crap has been going on for well over a year. Its nothing new not sure why people are justing finding out about this now??
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If this is old news then really it should have been announced when it was first heard.
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gamer4eva
If this is old news then really it should have been announced when it was first heard.
They were doing this early 2005 on a few public trackers if I recall right,
then the explosion of private trackers happened wouldn't use public trackers anymore.Private trackers are a little safer to use..
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hahaha
i wonder if theyre in here tryin to get invites to real trackers.
lmfao.
...ps thnx for the ranges.
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they've been doing this for ages...saw my 1st about 6 months ago
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gamer4eva
If this is old news then really it should have been announced when it was first heard.
It acctually was announced over a year ago or so on forums like Slyck.
Guess whoever posted this thinking it was new news is a little behind in current events. ;)
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gamer4eva
If this is old news then really it should have been announced when it was first heard.
It acctually was announced over a year ago or so on forums like Slyck.
Guess whoever posted this thinking it was new news is a little behind in current events. ;)
Although it is quite interesting news. What better way to catch downloaders than to be a uploader and release the content. Pretty hefty stuff if ya ask me. They must have put an awful amount of time and money for this.:unsure:
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thats why im sticking with private sites.
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Melvinmeow
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Originally Posted by
gamer4eva
If this is old news then really it should have been announced when it was first heard.
It acctually was announced over a year ago or so on forums like Slyck.
Guess whoever posted this thinking it was new news is a little behind in current events. ;)
I just found this on nsane forums posted yesterday :dabs: . Also provided a *.txt file for the listed fake trackers.
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FakeTrackers:66.172.60.1-66.172.60.255
FakeTrackers:66.177.58.1-66.177.58.255
FakeTrackers:66.180.205.1-66.180.205.255
FakeTrackers:209.204.61.1-209.204.61.255
FakeTrackers:216.151.155.1-216.151.155.255
Also, @sonnydeejay you can use
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Didnt read the story but it's kinda useless that they upload fake files to get IPs because your not downloading/sharing anything illegal :huh:
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Didnt read the story but it's kinda useless that they upload fake files to get IPs because your not downloading/sharing anything illegal :huh:
They however are pricks and can probably find some way around that...
Such as people who get busted for attempting to murder people.
You know how incredibly messed up our legal systems are today lol
