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Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has been placing fake pirated material up on the country’s most popular file-sharing networks, which attempt to shame media-stealers into changing their ways by delivering a polite warning once downloaded.
The scheme, which local enforcers refer to as Operation Decoy File, instead serves downloaders with a PDF file, warning that: “Knowingly downloading and of course uploading files that are protected by copyright law without the consent of the owner over the Internet is illegal copyright infringement,” requesting that the bad boy or girl “Please stop immediately.”
If that polite request isn’t enough, the warning file also informs users that Japan now has the possibility of a two-year jail term lined up to punish hardcore pirates. [Rocket News via TorrentFreak]
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Years ago when Vista was released I downloaded what I thought was the OS from Pirate Bay. It seemed legit but upon booting from the freshly ripped DVD I was presented with a slideshow of old gay men having sex. It was terrifying! Ever that traumatic experience I have cut down on the amount of pirated material.
Maybe they were trying to sum up the user experience?
Vista OS was shit, even the fake porn version of it is shit. Couldn’t the porn have been a brazzers special or something?
Years ago I downloaded a CD from a torrent site and as well a delivering the files there was a nice notepad document, supposedly from the RIAA, saying something similar.
To this day I’ve not been able to figure out whether it was legit (it keeps me awake at night) – I just can’t see the RIAA being fans of little-known hardcore bands.
If they can get money from it and send a message, nothing seems to be beneath them.
Aha! Of course, how silly of me.
Ha! Seems the torrent is stilling doing the rounds, with all the tracks ending with ‘-RIAA.mp3′, so that should have been a hint.
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Awwww.
I’d be a little more receptive to this if it was any other country than Japan; home of the £40, 2 episode DVD.
This Would probably be the Most fool proof way Of ending piracy, swamping torrent sites with fake and mislabelled downloads. Imagine Waiting all that time for a Download and Instead of the avengers you get my Little pony or A documentary about piracy or just a guy screaming at You for two hours in hd. If i couldn’t be sure what i was downloading, And especially if it could be something unpleasant i would soon start looking For a more reliable source for for My Movies.
Actually the most fool proof would be to do exactly what various corporations are doing to kill their own business. Switch the illegal downloads for versions that force you to watch half an hour of adverts, only work if you download extra software to your computer, compromise all your personal information, can only be used while you are connected to the internet and are so buggy they don’t work. Unfortunately this will only work if the retail version doesn’t suffer from these problems.