Trident Media Guard, the French anti-piracy outfit that was picked by the music and movie industry to track down French pirates under the new ‘Hadopi’ anti-piracy law, has been spotted in action wasting resources in an attempt to stop a sole pirate.
Over the last years we’ve seen many companies that try to stop piracy by polluting file-sharing networks with fake data. These outfits are usually hired by major movie and music studios to ‘protect’ popular albums or movies by sending fake data or uploading fake files.
Trident Media Guard (TMG) is such an outfit. TMG has submitted a patent application for their revolutionary P2P-spamming technology and were recently chosen to participate in tracking down French pirates for the three-strikes law.
With all this experience you would expect that the company would pick their spots carefully, avoiding to waste resources. However, the opposite is true as a Canadian uploader of an album from the band Furnaceface recently discovered.
“I have had a FLAC upload for almost the last 2 years of an indie Canadian band named Furnaceface. Never had a lot of downloads with the torrent and I had to ‘babysit’ it as a seed for many months – but thats cool it’s indie and I knew it wouldn’t be popular. Until now,” Kitlope explains.
The screenshot below shows that TMG is ‘DDoSing’ the single uploader with many requests originating from IP-addresses in the same range.
Why TMG is wasting their resources on protecting a torrent of an indie band with only one seeder and no peers is not clear. The money it takes to ‘attack’ this torrent costs more than any potential sales piracy could ever cost.
Article from: FreakBits