About 50 new torrents of The Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the first three The OC have been released from what myBittorrent admin Rex calls “fake” trackers (~31 in total).
Is it part of a plan to infiltrate the BitTorrent community with intentionally corrupt files? Slyck thinks so.
The titles are “specifically designed to report false information to trackers, thereby gaining artificially inflated popularity” and, “In a very short period of time, these false torrents have become most of my top downloads,” it has Rex saying. “I’ve never seen anything else before like it.”
Transfers stop at around 97%-98%, says Slyck, going on, “Some titles are published as ‘DVD-rips’ while others are pushed as ‘XviDs’. Others are presented as an English or French releases to disguise the origin of the torrent, and to present “a diverse array of choices”.
According to Rex, the torrent originating from false trackers are intentionally reporting false information, says the post.
“For example, a corrupt torrent will report 400 seeds with 3000 leeches. Since the more individuals having a file are indicative of the file’s download speed, it becomes a highly downloaded torrent and aids in its popularity. The ruse is additionally disguised by spreading the torrent release from over 31 different trackers. Interestingly enough, although the identified trackers have different sub domains, they all originate from the same IP address.”
Although myBittorrent has so far been on the sharp end, “ these types of corrupt torrents have begun to appear on Mininova as well,” says Slyck, adding:
“Since the threat has been identified, the administration of myBittorrent has begun eliminating any torrent files originating from the identified trackers. At this time, the origins of the attack are unknown. But their initial goal of gaining maximum exposure certainly did work, if only for a short while.”
Via p2pnet.net