P2P poisoning? Yeah, right.
The music mafia is at it again. A Wired post tells about a hush-hush company called Overpeer, whose secret mission is to infiltrate P2P networks and seed it with fake files — music of crappy quality (as in “low bitrate and poor sound,” not “Britney Spears”).
I can see exactly what will happen when they try it on Direct Connect: “Oy, this here SecretAgentManGuy is sharing a bunch of crappy-sounding music! I bet he shares kiddie porn too! Kick his sorry as the hell out of our hub!”
Sorry, but as soon as people find out that you’re sharing crappy stuff on DC, they simply check their download logs, see who they downloaded it from, and start complaining. Too many complaints, and the culprit will get a large bootprint over his ass.
Not to mention that the hubs I frequent restrict their access to certain ISPs.