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Skynet? Is that you?

Can anyone translate this article into language that those of us not familiar with traffic analysis can understand?

I had the same thought. TorrentFreak explains it quite nicely: http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfits-launch-attack-on...

Those guys really are great journalists.

In other words, the techniques these anti-piracy outfits appear to be using to prevent people from sharing copyrighted movies could be illegal. If that is the case then the movie companies who hire these anti-piracy outfits may be complicit in cybersecurity crimes.

I'm sure the DoJ will be handing out indictments in the very near future. <sarcasm/>

It's unfortunate that the only data that really gets protected in the US is Hollywood's.

I do not pretend to understand very much of the original post. The TorrentFreak "translation" did make it a bit more clear, but I'm pretty much boiling this down to, "somebody is trying to poison the Internet -- if not now, then sometime soon".

It's easy to forget how young a medium the Internet is and that there are going to be a lot of pitfalls along the way that we haven't begun to imagine. This seems to be one of those. I guess the question that I have is simple: what happens next?

Maybe the group will be discovered and shamed, maybe it won't. I'm guessing the vast majority of Bittorrent users will never be affected.

Being stereotypically in favor of one side doesn't make you a great journalist.

I'd agree, that alone would not indicate that someone is a great journalist.

Somebody's up to something and it's most likely not good. Who that somebody is, no one is sure. To be honest, they're not even entirely sure what it is they're up to.

But, strictly speaking, somethin' ain't right.

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