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DirIndexFaker
By Sparky | December 14, 2005
Check out DirIndexFaker – it’s a slick little anti-RIAA honeypot of sorts that P2Pnet just posted. The MPAA and RIAA have spider bots that crawl around the internet looking for copyrighted material. They then use the logs from those bots to sue people, many of whom have turned out to be innocent.
DirIndexFaker creates a /media directory on your website with fake files that look like they would be in violation of copyright. The RIAA/MPAA then downloads those files and use them as evidence against the owners of the site, however discovers they have downloaded a file of random 0’s and 1’s.
This slows down the spiders and makes them put more efforts into checking their files. I encourage all website owners to put this script somewhere on their server. It sends a message to big media and complicates their attempts to turn technology against people and restrict what they can do with their media and computers.
Topics: Audio, Open source, Technology | 1 Comment »
December 15th, 2005 at 3:55 am
Hi, I’m the author of this script. I just stopped by to say thanks for the mention, and to point out that it doesn’t actually send random 1’s 0’s it actually sends the source code for itself over, and over again renamed as an mp3, or avi, or whatever.
This makes defending yourself much easier if ever questioned by the copyright cartels. Just open it in notpead. 