Bizarre Indian Anti-Piracy Group Says It Does DoS Attacks On File Sharing Operations
from the oh-really? dept
This one's just a bit strange. TorrentFreak alerts us to the news of an Indian company called AiPlex, which (according to its website) seems to do a bit of medical transcription, a bit of SEO and... just for fun, a bit of anti-piracy work. Apparently AiPlex's CEO explains that one of their anti-piracy methods is to hit non-cooperative sites with a denial of service attack:"In such cases, we flood the website with requests, which results in database error, causing denial of service as each server has a fixed bandwidth capacity," Kumar reveals. And it doesn't stop there.TorrentFreak also notes that this firm seems a bit confused over how BitTorrent works, in that it lists "Bram Cohen" as a type of BitTorrent client, which I'm sure amuses Bram). Watch out, Bram, or a medical transcription SEO company might try to flood you with requests, resulting in a database error.
"At times, we have to go an extra mile and attack the site and destroy the data to stop the movie from circulating further," he adds.
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They know how much money is there
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Seems like a short-term business plan
2. ???
3. Profit!
This will be entertaining. :-)
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You what would be funny
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So obviously this works like a charm...
I was wondering what happened, there.
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The URL is http://www.aiplex.com/
Website currently shows 80k hits.... 800k would probably be enough to bring it down.
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All they achieve is stopping the distribution of the .torrent files (if they succeed, which, I doubt) on _that_ site. They don't stop the infringement, so what do they hope to achieve? I guess that just the promise of magically stopping the massive file sharing with some poorly thought out plan is enough to get studios to throw some money at them.
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Re: They know how much money is there
It is inevitable that we all will be receiving poorly written letters and emails suggesting a payment in order to avoid a costly court battle. A big problem for the recipients is figuring out which ones are real.
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Re: Seems like a short-term business plan
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we'll see if they like it
and in almost every country this is illegal and if they want to get whacked by all means , myself i think this is a trap
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BWAAAHAHAHAH
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Re: Re: Seems like a short-term business plan
$5000 to have your wife murdered? ILLEGAL
$100 million in no-bid contracts to blackwater? TOTALLY LEGAL
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Misinterpretation
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Indian company
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