Tired of fake torrents ? Block the sources

Martin — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:31:54 +0000

We all knew and heard about the common method to upload fake torrents into the torrent system to punish downloaders of copyrighted media files. The Torrentfreak blog reports that some torrent admins were able to identify some of the IP ranges that spread fake torrents and probably also the company that is behind it. The easiest way to cope with the situation would be to block the IP ranges either in your firewall or in a utility such as Peer Guardian. Below are the information for Peer Guardian 2, simply use the IP ranges if you want to block the IPs in your firewall.

MPAA Tracker:66.172.60.1-66.172.60.255
MPAA Tracker:66.177.58.1-66.177.58.255
MPAA Tracker:66.180.205.1-66.180.205.255
MPAA Tracker:209.204.61.1-209.204.61.255
MPAA Tracker:216.151.155.1-216.151.155.255

The fake torrents look like real torrents on first glance and are disguised as valid group releases such as Battlestar Galactica S03E07 REPACK DSR XviD-ORENJi. According to nforce.nl Orenji is the group that is releasing Battlestar Galactica episodes.

Everyone should be well aware that the worst thing that can happen is not a crippled file but legal consequences. Those trackers surely log every IP and connection that is made and this might lead to legal consequences as well. I’am no lawyer but it is at least doubtful if this is indeed copyright infringement if you download a file that is not working at all.

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Tired of fake torrents ? Block the sources

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