Just what everyone wants, to wake up with kiddie porn flicks hidden on their computers. Now add a tinfoil hat about who is actually sponsoring this, and we have complete madness. "The FBI plants pedo-porn on my machine then come and arrest me..." Yup, it looks to be an entertaining year ahead.
Ed Hurst | Homepage | 12.20.05 - 11:29 pm | #

Ed, have you ever heard of a little thing called "entrapment".

stow your conspiracy theories, at least for now.
emptythought | 12.21.05 - 4:00 am | #

But conspiracy theories are so....entertaining. bah, won't be needing these fifteen rolls of tinfoil now!

wow....574 Diggs....a winner is me...
Paperghost | 12.21.05 - 7:59 am | #

the problem with Conspiracy theories
is that at least some turn out to be 100% true so dont discount them
as you never know ....
remember Watergate oops sorry you could be to young lol how very ageist of me :-/
milligansghost | 12.21.05 - 9:36 am | #

Finally, the perfect MPAA defense: "but your honour, it was those eeeeevil pirates with their rootkits!"
Michiel | Homepage | 12.21.05 - 12:48 pm | #

the perfect MPAA defense lol point taken but given what PG has posted i have no doubt it could happen
Think of one celeb/political figure
you would like to get at,
now work out how
milligansghost | 12.21.05 - 2:34 pm | #

i find that this is probably a good thing to a certain extent. in court, so long as you have said infection, you have plausible deniability and thus absolve responsibility.
Alan | 12.21.05 - 3:56 pm | #

Some interesting discussion on the "Digg" page about whether the end-user could be in hot water or not, with regards RIAA etc should they get infected. I'd like to think they wouldn't take any heat, but as we've seen, anything's possible.

Bah

Can of worms, anybody?
Paperghost | 12.21.05 - 9:37 pm | #

The "why" is quite obvious. These people want to push out their pirated material over BitTorrent (Release groups and such). What better way to speed up distribution than to have a botnet that did nothing but seed movies?

You're concentrating on the downloading part of BitTorrent, but BitTorrent is also about uploading. Once those rooted boxes finish downloading the movie, they're going to keep uploading it. Since the user isn't aware they're doing it, they're going to keep uploading the file until the botnet says to stop.

So quite simply these people want free seeds for their torrent swarms.
Guspaz | 12.22.05 - 2:45 am | #

To be fair, we did mention that part of it to Eweek. The thing that interests me specifically is the fact that they had the gall to put these movie files onto the PCs in the first place.

What can I say, I just like Mr Bean :P
Paperghost | 12.22.05 - 7:03 am | #

a good reason to watch connection speed i think depending on size of the file on the, uploading/downloading
seed you should be able to See it
mind you most people dont sem to see whats in front of their noses :-/
milligansghost | 12.22.05 - 2:16 pm | #

Good point there mate. If people knew what to look out for then maybe we could battle it in a better way. But unfortunatly end users don;t care too much about this. Aslong as they can browse the net. Untill a problem occurs.
AndyAtHull | Homepage | 12.22.05 - 9:40 pm | #

Being a bit crazy i let (mysearch) into my Xp system, well that was fun
to me 3 hours a some downloads to get rid of, 150 registry Items
User friendly ?? i think not
milligansghost | 12.23.05 - 6:48 pm | #