HBO clamping down on bittorrent use

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[Connected Internet News | Broadband Mobile Gaming News] I'm not quite sure how they are tracking users, but HBO are sending nasty letters to bittorrent users who are downloading their programming. I have a sneaky suspicion that HBO, and maybe other media companies as well, are adding their own torrents to trap users.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

Gen Kanai weblog: Below is a copy of the email sent to me from my ISP after HBO caught me downloading the latest episode of Entourage. When I first starting reading this it gave me a bit of a scare, I just started thinking of all the people that have been sued by the RIAA and I was sure I was going to be prosecuted. (via Cosmos)

[Darknet.com] Darknet: August 2004: Supporting the project are Barger, Click to Vote, DeviantArt.com, Dmusic.com, Downhill Battle, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), FreeCulture.org, Gnutella.com, Grokster, Intent Media Works, Mashboxx, Morpheus, Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, Limewire, New Yorkers For Fair Use, Off The Peer, Public Knowledge, Savethe.org, TopP2P and TrustyFiles.

 [Integrationresearch.org] Copyfight | integrationresearch.org: people choose to download movies off BitTorrent or similar. to hit TV is produced by HBO, which manages .

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Posted at August 29, 2005 12:47 PM