6fu fake bittorrent files2 min read

what to do if your favorite tv show [6 feet under] has just started its 5th and final season [*sob*], yet you live in switzerland [not to be confused with sweden, but more about that later], where swissgerman television has only recently started to show season 1 [!!!] – yup, you read that right season 1 [!!!!!], and where you can’t subscribe to HBO?

bittorrent comes to mind, but i would of course never… so the answer is patience. 4 years from now even swiss tv will show season 5. there’s a hopeful thought.

as an aside: i can’t believe HBO is not taking advantage of this great technology to distribute/sell their content. i would soooooo pay for 6 feet under. i really would. but hey. they won’t let me.

well, it appears that some very intelligent individuals [and they might also be tribes or conglomerates] have started to seed fake 6 feet under clients, that let people download these huge files to later find out that the .avi’s are fake. won’t work. junk.

very smart that. now that’s really gonna help with internet trafic, that, according to last sundays edition of sonntagszeitung, already gets clogged up by torrents [torrents make up more than 30% of web traffic]. the article in sonntagszeitung not only talked about its genius inventor bram cohen [we are so not worthy!], but also about the swedes [there you go], who run thepiratebay.org and who asked whoever sends these out to please re-send the cease & desist note on softer paper next time, because they are currently out of toilet paper. ha. but i digress.

fake clients. i found some info about this here [hi swedes!] and here’s a peer guardian torrent to download a list of fake seeders [i’ll also post this list later].

well, later is in fact now:

Performance Systems International Inc:38.112.0.0-38.119.255.255
ServerBeach, Peer 1 Network Inc:64.34.160.0-64.34.191.255
Peak Web Hosting: 64.62.170.0-64.62.170.255
Abovenet Communications Inc:64.124.0.0-64.125.255.255
MediaSentry/SafeNet:66.250.46.0-66.250.47.255
ThePlanet.com Internet Services:70.84.0.0-70.87.127.255
MediaSentry:168.215.129.64-168.215.129.95
MediaSentry:206.169.170.240-206.169.170.255
MediaSentry:206.169.225.80-206.169.225.95
MediaSentry:206.169.230.96-206.169.230.111
Global Crossing:208.50.192.0-208.51.255.255
MediaSentry:209.203.99.224-209.203.99.239

14 Replies to “6fu fake bittorrent files2 min read

  1. What? Another 6fu afficionado? We should start a club! 😉

    Regarding those files: Are you sure they’re junk, and not just some format the QT codec of you haven’t installed yet? Have you installed 3ivx for instance? Let us know whether it might work … otherwise, I am going to London next week, where I intend to stock up on DVDs …

  2. good idea. lets start a club but i HAVE seen everything up to season 5, and i doubt that season 5 will already be in stores.
    London? nice!

  3. Me too, me too, let me into your club.

    I had troubles too: First I got a fake .torrent and 350mb later it didn’t work. The second, real .torrent took about 500-600mb to download the episode.

    How else are we supposed to watch those? Months/Years later on german TV with german synchronization? I don’t think so…

  4. well, “they” are probably thinking that we shoudl wait for the dvd’s, but hey ~

    btw. you are a brave man. i would never admit to downloading illegal stuff via bittorrent… i never do!

  5. I got all the 6fu-DVDs there are, what more can I do?

    (You know that downloading isn’t illegal in Switzerland (yet)? It’s uploading which gets you in trouble. So it’s only half-brave to admit gettting stuff via BitTorrent.)

  6. Just tried to send you email through the contact section and filled in all visible required fields – still got that baby face!

  7. really? oh damn. lemme check
    edit: indeed, there is something wrong with that form. i’ll have to look into this tomorrow. meanwhile, the suggest the link form in the left column here works fine! thanx so much for letting me know.

  8. why don’t you people just go to a tracker site that has user comments about the contents? That would rule out 99.99999 % of fakes, no? Does for me. Files wont open, wont play, no audio? there not nessicerily fake, as posted above you probably don’t have the right codec’s installed. Or if codecs are to much to handle just use a media player that plays just about every format, like VLC player.

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