MPAA Sets Up Fake Site to Catch Pirates

thefickler writes "Media Defender, a company which does the dirty work for the MPAA, has been caught setting up 'dummy' websites in an attempt to catch those who download copyrighted videos. The site, MiiVi.com, complete with a user registration, forum, and "family filter", offered complete downloads of movies and "fast and easy video downloading all in one great site." But that's not all; MiiVi also offered client software to speed up the downloading process. The only catch is, after it was installed, it searched your computer for other copyrighted files and reported back."

uh oh....

[SpaceballsTheUserNam]

I just told all my friends about that site. Knew it was too good to be true.

Re:Entrapment or Honeypot?

[martin_henry]

This is the worst kind of entrapment....the kind WITHOUT Catherine Zeta Jones.

ARE YOU A COP?

[QuantumG]

Cause you have to tell me if you are.

Re:uh oh....

[Aneurysm]

I reckon Christmas is the opposite of theft. You get loads of things for free from people. Also thieves go to prison and never see family, at Christmas you have to see family, whether you like it or not.

Re:Dateline NBC: To catch a paedo

[TheDugong]

Surely you jest. They do that in the US Congress as well don't they?

Re:Dateline NBC: To catch a paedo

[Anonymous Coward]

>Surely you jest.
No I don't - and I told you, don't call me Shirley.

Re:You see, children...

[Spy der Mann]

his is why you should only use a reliable video piracy site

Don't you mean a LEGAL video piracy site? Because you see... in Sweden, piracy (or at least linking to) IS legal :)

Re:uh oh....

[Asztal_]

Oh, so I just run it on my virtual machine? cool.

Has Anyone Analyzed The Software?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can it be fooled into sending terabytes of reports of my noninfringing homemade porn (featuring just me) back to them?

Re:ARE YOU A COP?

[trewornan]

The only point at which a cop cannot lie about anything is at trial.

Your naivety amuses me.

Re:uh oh....

[fractoid]

Record your own shows
Cherry blossoms all around
Upload and be sued.

Re:uh oh....

[StikyPad]

Moral of the story: Avoid anything to do with cricket.

Re:Entrapment or Honeypot?

[Paradise Pete]

Then they're on the TV parking cars on the street with the keys in them so people can steel them.

I hear that's how the deLorean was invented.

Re:uh oh....

[AndersOSU]

I think it started when Prometheus gave fire to the Greeks.

Re:uh oh....

[DMoylan]

Any moron can
Write haiku. Just stop at the
Seventeenth sylla

Option #3

[JonTurner]

You forgot option #3. Kill them and bury the bodies in a shallow grave behind the shed.

But if you do, please shoot a video and post a torrent. That would be entertaining.