Re: Btjunkie Movies Hindi Movie Download
Stephanie Dejoode
Since the SOPA and PIPA bills didn't get passed the U.S. Federal Government and other lobbyist for piracy control have taken other means for getting their point across that piracy will not be tolerated. This meant actively pursuing and shutting down hosting portals such as MegaUpload and tossing the owner in jail.
Well, the fear-mongering that the powers that be have instilled into the internet community is actually taking effect and popular torrent site used for pirating movies, music and games, BTJunkie, has succumbed to the fear of being legally pursued so they're bowing out of the picture altogether.
According to GameIndustry, the site was shutdown due to the fear of legal repercussions that affected sites such as Pirate Bay and MegaUpload. The owners of BTJunkie just didn't feel like they were up to the challenge, saying on their website...
"This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we've decided to voluntarily shut down. We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on. It's been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!"
According to GI, BTJunkie had already been screened by Google and had been reported to U.S. officials that they were supporting and spreading the use of pirated material, such as full digital copies of stuff like Call of Duty and Transformers. The next step (if it wasn't already underway) would be a full investigation. Such was the case with MegaUpload, where the FBI worked with New Zeland authorities to bring the site down.
Well, I at least have to give the BTJunkie guys props for knowing when to call it quits and avoid being turned into martyrs. However, if this trend continues it could spell a startling change to the way the internet works.
My utorrent 1.61 was working perfectly for the last few days,then suddenly,without changing any settings,whatever torrents i add to utorrent to download doesnt download at all! I am running windows built in firewall and i tried disabling it but whatever i tried on my own did not work! I get a yellow triangle at the bottom of utorrent and no downloading ocurs. The strange part was that when i visited the normal site yesterday where i download torrents from which is www.btjunkie.org,a list of newly added movies etc are displayed,and just to see if any of those download,i downloaded a movie torrent and when i opened the movie torrent in utorrent,it began to download perfectly! But when i downloaded another torrent after searchin for one and when i started to download in utorrent,it did the same thing which was no downloading began! Any ideas on what i can try specifically to sort out my problem,much appreciated guys!
I just received two DMCA takedown notices, my first ever. Ironically, neither was for a file I actually downloaded - not that I ever do, of course. Both notices were generated by downloading only a .torrent file. The first was an accident - I was trying to expand the torrent info on something on BTJunkie and hit the download arrow instead of the plus sign. I didn't want the item and discarded the .torrent file. A couple of days later, bam, DMCA notice. I didn't download a single byte of that media file. It was never opened in uTorrent or any other client so it could never have appeared on a tracker. It was never served on my network.
I decided to test this yesterday and went to BTJunkie again and selected a file type I an unable to use, downloaded the torrent file, then deleted it. I made absolutely sure that it did not open and that no extraneous traffic left the machine. Next day, bam, another takedown notice. Here are some details from the notice:
Note that there is zero duration and no network port listed. The "infringed" work was never shared or downloaded. No torrent client was running and no client started due to the .torrent file download. I had Wireshark running for the entire session and nothing happened that wasn't suppose to happen.
The most likely way to have generated that notice is for someone to have intercepted the HTTP download of the .torrent file. This would require either my ISP, BTJunkie's ISP, or BTJunkie themselves to be monitoring HTTP downloads of torrent files. My ISP says they had nothing to do with it, and I tend to believe them. That leaves two primary suspects.
There is one other other thing I noticed and that is that the BTJunkie site has started keeping a list on your computer of all the torrent files you have downloaded from them. They store them in a cookie named history and display them under a link titled: "n unreported torrents" on the page. I suppose that could set you up for a cross site attack, but that would be a lot harder to do, unless BTJunkie has been turned to the dark side.
I downloaded only (dot) .TORRENT files from BTJunkie. No movies, no music, no media of any kind. Not a single byte. The .TORRENT files were never opened. My IP never appeared on a tracker. Someone intercepted the HTTP downloads of the .TORRENT files from the BTJunkie web site and used that information to file DMCA takedown notices.
It is highly unlikely that my ISP was involved. I am in a business relationship with them and could sue their a55es off for making perjured claims, maybe even put someone in jail. This is also costing them time and effort - they have no motive to do this.
I want to know why BTJunkie has not been sued out of existence by the MPAA. Everyone else has, why not them? Why do they not have forums? Who runs it? What is their business model? It has no ads, it sells nothing, so how the he!! does it stay in business? Who is paying their bills?
No-one's ISPs are. The MPAA doesn't have the power to either. only the copyright holder or their legally appointed agent can make a DMCA notification. Also, downloading a torrent file, the copyright of the .torrent belongs to the person that created it, so if you did not actually download any of the torrented data, you're fine, and youhave a clear counter-claim.
I agree, ISP's aren't allowed to do these kinds of things. There was no infringement in any case, and no intent to infringe. One instance was a fat finger error, the other was a deliberate test with no intent to download anything other than the .torrent file.
What happened here is that someone unwisely tipped their hand and exposed a technical capability that should have been preserved for more appropriate use. I presume that management was involved. I've seen that before.
I am not worried about my exposure or I would not have posted. I analyzed the situation and decided to make it public. If the owners of the BTJunkie site want to come forward, tell us who they are and what they are doing, then we may regain some confidence in them. If not, we have to assume that they are working for the other side until proven otherwise.
Some torrents are tagged by certain isp.....i.e. Cox....they will block your internet until you delete the downloaded torrent. I've found some watched torrents on pirate bay as well, these sites have went down hill lately anyways. The site i go for most of my torrents now is...Demonoid and their private tracker.
Absolutely. Someone is in the path sniffing HTTP downloads of .torrent files. It is apparently operating against a keyword list because the first one shared a title with a newer release from a major studio, but the file referenced was from the early 50's. It was a very old torrent with only a handful of peers. It isn't likely anyone was watching that specific torrent. They were looking for the newer release featuring a prominent scientologist.
You could potentially start up a claim against your isp for invasion of privacy for this as well. Also have you checked where the original email came from, you should be able to trace it back to a specific server.
They have embedded an HREF on the page that points to =report. This only comes up if you have a cookie from their site named "history". The cookie itself contains only a 32-byte hex number (a GUID?) that is sent up to their site during the session setup. If you run the report it passes your cookies back up to the site and runs the report there, sending back a list of all the torrent files you have downloaded.
Not to belabor the point - but who exactly pays their bills? I see no real revenue generators on the site, no donation buttons, no mention of who they are and what keeps them running. High bandwidth web sites backed by huge, highly available databases are extremely expensive to run. Are they altruists, or have they been taken over or co-opted by the MPAA/RIAA cabal?
Even if you delete that cookie the data on their site will still be there. If they store an IP and a time stamp along with the torrent metadata they have everything the MM needs to go after their users.
If you want to mess up their data, open up your Firefox cookies database in SQLITE and insert some random hex data into the value field. This will fragment their data sets and make reconstruction more difficult, but not impossible. They will reset the cookie at some point and start tracking again but the earlier torrents will be in a different record set.
I haven't seen them put a cookie into IE yet - it may be that they are concentrating on FF. If they also do IE, the cookie should be a text file in the Cookies folder and you can do the same thing to it by altering the hex value in the history cookie. Google for "random hex generator" - there are a number of sites that create random hex strings. That would be better than using all zeros or something else easily detected, just grab 32 bytes (characters) of random hex and stuff it into the cookie.
This unreported torrents feature may be an innocent attempt to add value to their site, or it may be hostile. If the former, it is an incredibly clueless thing to do, if the latter, it should be countered by every means possible.
But if all they have observed is a transfer of a torrent file (clearly not the files in question), Can they even legally require your ISP to forward that email to you, They don't even have proof you're using it. Sounds to me like they're hoping for a response in order to get a real name to try to pin something to.
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