p2pnet - rss feed: Loudeye’s ’secret’ spoofs
p2pnet.net News:- Loudeye’s Overpeer is distributing thousands of spoof files on p2p networks, and is trying to do it covertly.
Ratiatum.com, however, has a list of 2,989 files actually distributed by the company .
789 were spoofs of the movie Shrek 2, given explicit file names such as “Shrek 2 - TMD 1 of 2.mpg”, “[TMD]Shrek.2.(MPT).TS(2of2) - GOOD.avi” or “Shrek 2 cd rip.mpg”.
There are also spoofs of I Robot (137 files) and of the Michael Mann’s Collateral movie featuring Tom Cruise (262 files). In total, nearly 1,600 files are distributed by Overpeer on behalf of Hollywood studios.
But studios aren’t their only clients.
The Big Four record label cartel is also loading up the p2p nets with garbage. 1,264 of Ratiatum.com’s listed Overpeer files were mp3s.
Motown’s Nelly takes the lead with more than 70% of the fake distributed music, followed by 202 files dedicated to Saliva.
The long-awaited Doom 3 video game also got spoofed, with 150 different hashes dedicated to the ID Software’s work.
Even porn spoofs are distributed by Overpeer !
How much is all this costing the entertainment industry? Whatever the answer, it’s too much - especially since it doesn’t take rocket science to tell one of Loudeye’s fakes from the real deal.
Stay tuned.
Guillaume Champeau - Ratiatum.com
October 1st, 2004 at 2:37 pm
I disagree there has been nothing covert about Overpeer’s actions. They term their spoofs ‘interdiction’ and this has been constant for a long time. They’ve even got a patent to legitamize their actions. The spoofing files seem to be a deterent to the casual Kazaa user. Personally i love these files i’ve been collecting them for several years now. you can read/listen to the ones i’ve been handed here:
http://noneinc.com/RIAAEM/
I’m always looking for more examples. There are two companies which have an application which will search your recently downloaded files and remove the spoofs, they ask for submittals so if you contact them they can give you a bigger library of Overpeer content.
Someone on a peerguardian forum had documented a list of files from an Overpeer IP found on a p2p program. they had made a big list of those files. the key now is to take that information and figure out which companies and which artists continue to use Overpeer’s services and make that public, since Overpeer will not say who their clients are.
Overpeer in their press releases state:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040929/sfw030_1.html
“Loudeye currently protects more than 60,000 digital entertainment titles”
“Loudeye experiences 25 billion digital download hits against its servers, effectively blocking the illicit distribution of copyrighted material across 200 million unique user sessions.”
That’s alot of wasted bandwidth in my opinion.
Peter A Lopez
October 1st, 2004 at 4:10 pm
The bandwidth issue always seems to be over-looked. Who pays for it?
Cheers!
October 1st, 2004 at 6:36 pm
At the moment, Overpeer pays for their bandwidth out and the individuals pay for their bandwidth in. This is fine. This issue though is just a general thing, do we as a society want a company to use the profits they earn to essentially waste bandwidth by distributing files which are not what the user wants?
It’s would be a fascinating stat for BigChampagne to determine how many bandwidth hours and bandwidth totals Terrabytes are produced by Overpeer and related companies. Retspan/Media Defender and there are others who are all doing this ‘interdiction’.
Bandwidth is bought and everyone can do with it as they wish. This is obvious by Overpeer’s existance and the existance of the downloaders. One way to get rid of or lessen the reach of an organization like Overpeer is to inform the masses who then complain to everyone. Imagine if all the fans of the latest pop band got tired of downloading spoofs and publicly said they we’re not going to support this band anymore because of the spoofing files. At that point it would be up to the record label to determiine if ‘interdiction’ was a policy they wanted to continue supporting.
Overpeer is currently a several million dollar operation if that grows ten-fold cash wise, their output bandwidth wise could increase 1,000 fold. People speculate that a significant portion of all of Kazaa’s content is Overpeer spoofing files, with a larger cash revenue they could flood all the networks. In a strange way they could be responsible for, let’s just say, 30% of all internet traffic. It would be really funny if interdiction companies we’re responsible for most of internet traffic.
As the stats currentlly stand, Overpeer is the most successful music artist ever. They have 25 Billion downloads a month. Music artists win awards for selling a million albums. Overpeer’s got a BILLION downloads. that’s something special. I wish i could listen to the complete Overpeer library.
anyway i love Overpeer and Senator Orrin Hatch
http://noneinc.com/sound/
%20&SenOrrinHatch&Overpeer-UnitingEverydayInternetHeroes.mp3
for more inane rambling:
http://noneinc.com/RIAAEM/RIAABlog.html
October 3rd, 2004 at 9:49 am
“At that point it would be up to the record label to determiine if ‘interdiction’ was a policy they wanted to continue supporting.”
Let’s not forget that these are the record companies
that sue their customers for allowing others to sample their music.
They clearly do not care for their fans.
October 5th, 2004 at 7:39 pm
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