Anti-Piracy Organization, Media Defender have allegedly been using a BitTorrent client called ZipTorrent to slow down popular downloads and record your IP-address, so as to send you a copyright infringement notice. This nasty client is said to be a mod of another BitTorrent client called Azureus which has been configured to send fake data.
Media Defender’s website reads: “Decoying and Spoofing are the most commonly known techniques that we employ. We send blank files and data noise that look exactly like a real response to an initiated search requests for a particular title.”
The safest approach would be to stop download pirated media, especially newly released movie or album. However, those who still want download these pirated media should probably consider adding the blocklist provided by TorrentFreak to prevent these bots from logging your IP-address or sending fake data.
Some argue that Media Defender is clogging the entire internet traffic to just catch few people.
[via: TorrentFreak]
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