[TorrentFreak] [DigitalTrends] Company (Rightscorp) hijacks pirates' browsers, demands fine payment

[nobelharvards]

Original Source

 

This source reports on the same issue, quotes the above as the original.

 

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Anti-piracy outfit Rightscorp says that it's working on a new method to extract cash settlements from suspected Internet pirates. The company says new technology will lock users' browsers and prevent Internet access until they pay a fine.

So ransomware, except this company sees it as some sort of vigilante.

 

This is akin to a person deliberately committing homicide (not self defence) against someone who has committed another crime instead of leaving it to the appropriate authorities and appropriate procedure.

 

Two wrongs do not make a right.

 

I see this as "stooping down to their level", if you will.

 

It also mentions it "locks" the browser. That sounds very easy to work around.

[mikat]

"locks" the browser

Virtual machines here we come lol

 

from now on just use a vm for that kind of stuff

VPN + VM =

[iUSEMAC]

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[Nineshadow]

Gee wiz.

[Cryptonite]

21 minutes ago, nobelharvards said:

Original Source

 

This source reports on the same issue, quotes the above as the original.

 

So ransomware, except this company sees it as some sort of vigilante.

 

This is akin to a person deliberately committing homicide (not self defence) against someone who has committed another crime instead of leaving it to the appropriate authorities and appropriate procedure.

 

Two wrongs do not make a right.

 

I see this as "stooping down to their level", if you will.

 

It also mentions it "locks" the browser. That sounds very easy to work around.

must be a late april fools since anyone with a little brains will be able to "unlock" their browser, and if I use another person's IP the wrong guy gets his browser locked (though locking the browser would require some sort of virus to be downloaded which in turn needs to be triggered) so this system is entirely flawed. late april fools.

[TetraSky]

I see they say that the ISPs would need to be the ones essentially injecting this garbage in a user's browser... If so, I can see a class action lawsuit coming up if any ISP actually start doing this.

Not to mention, this to me sound like a "guilty until proven innocent" kind of deal, which I'm pretty sure isn't exactly allowed anywhere.

[Just Monika]

Looks like this company is already on its way to die if we just ignore it and pretend it never existed:

 

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Rightscorp blames this reluctance among service providers for its current financial situation, which isn’t good. The company reported a net loss of $3.43 million in 2015, up from its previous loss of $2.85 million in 2014.

 

[Misanthrope]

As we know pirates are the dumbest of users, not tech savvy at all and won't be able to get around a ridiculously simple minor annoyance: great fucking work. 

[suicidalfranco]

it's gonna be brilliant! good thing people who know how to torrent are as brain dead as Somalian pirates 

 

 

[mikat]

2 hours ago, Weird Face said:

Looks like this company is already on its way to die if we just ignore it and pretend it never existed:

 

 

yeah lol, just ignore them and they will go away

the one scenario where it actually works lol

[mikat]

19 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

As we know pirates are the dumbest of users, not tech savvy at all and won't be able to get around a ridiculously simple minor annoyance: great fucking work. 

i know people that think wifi = internet

[kelvindeschutter]

honestly this will be a problem for the first couple of weeks when it's released then all the smart people will start using VPN en VM and then the lawsuits will follow to the creator if this shit

[Derangel]

Shit like this makes me seriously reconsider my anti-piracy stance. It makes me want to pirate things that are represented by this "company". Any company that allows a company like this to handle their piracy protection/extortion racket deserves to have their shit pirated.

[dalekphalm]

This has got to be illegal...

[Trik'Stari]

2 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

As we know pirates are the dumbest of users, not tech savvy at all and won't be able to get around a ridiculously simple minor annoyance: great fucking work. 

Nevermind that this is outright illegal to begin with.

 

If it isn't, I'm moving my ass to mars and finishing my video game there.

[GeekJump]

I like how this company was sleazy enough to find legal loopholes to get away with fining people on behalf of the company they stole from. Now they are trying this BS? I want to hear the crap explanation they have to explain away holding peoples browsers hostage lol

[suicidalfranco]

1 hour ago, mikat said:

i know people that think wifi = internet

Just like people who think that Windows = the entire machine they're using 

[Arty]

2 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

Just like people who think that Windows = the entire machine they're using 

or turning the monitor off = turning computer off

[theninja35]

suspected Internet pirates

 

So if someone is suspected but not actually pirating anything, they'll have a fun time and maybe even a lawsuit.

[Orangeator]

54 minutes ago, Arty said:

or turning the monitor off = turning computer off

Oh yes! My grandmother thinks this. If she turns her monitor off the PC is off. I literally have told her so many times that is no the way it works. 

[El Diablo]

u are legally allowed to download film torrents aslong as u are only previewing the file for a few minits to see if u like the film to decide if u wanna purchase it or not

 

or if u alredy own the film

 

torrents arent illegal

 

sharing them is

[Misanthrope]

1 hour ago, Trik'Stari said:

Nevermind that this is outright illegal to begin with.

 

If it isn't, I'm moving my ass to mars and finishing my video game there.

What kind of game are you working on? 

[dalekphalm]

20 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

u are legally allowed to download film torrents aslong as u are only previewing the file for a few minits to see if u like the film to decide if u wanna purchase it or not

 

or if u alredy own the film

 

torrents arent illegal

 

sharing them is

Do you have a source for this? What country? Copyright laws are different in every country around the world (Although many are quite similar). I could see some European countries perhaps having this type of law, though I would be extremely skeptical about it being legal in Canada or the US.

 

You're basically describing a movie trailer. If you're just gonna download a movie to watch a few minutes of it?... don't. Just go watch the trailer.

[Trik'Stari]

2 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

What kind of game are you working on? 

FPS survival horror using Unreal 4. I really haven't even started. Just going through all the Unreal 4 tutorials now.

 

I'll make a thread on it when I have a prototype level completed that people can play.

[That Norwegian Guy]

5 hours ago, El Diablo said:

or if u alredy own the film

 

torrents arent illegal

 

sharing them is

Torrent = sharing. You can't download a torrent without also uploading.

Thus, torrenting copyrighted content from a third party not licensed to distribute it is always illegal.