HBO also noticed this bonus episode through its anti-piracy partner Marketly and took action in response. A takedown notice posted in the Lumen Database shows that the company asked Google to remove an “infringing” link to the non-existent release earlier this week.
They’re claiming to own the copyright to the Trojan horse?
I think they’re issuing a take down notice for using the name and posing as them.
“Takedown notice” has legal meaning, it’s not some random cease-and-desist letter that you can draft for anything you want and that has no legal weight other than that it might be scary.
Using someone else’s IP, such as claiming that something you’re distributing is an episode of their show, most certainly qualifies for a valid DMCA takedown notice.
DMCA is about copyright (that’s what the “C” is). The name of a show isn’t copyrighted, it’s trademarked. Different type of IP altogether.
Suspect Sonarr users didn’t have any issues, as it wouldn’t have gone looking for an episode 9.
Indeed, it’s only showing 8.
They need to go through tvdb anyway and then it would need to be added by a user. Afaik it takes a while to be propagated to sonarrs skyhook/tvdb integration.
This isn’t exactly special. People have been putting viruses into torrents forever.
You should assume anything you download from the internet has a virus!
What? Are you telling me that “baby one more time.mp3.exe” I got off of Napster isn’t actually reliable? Gasp!
This is a perfect use case for having a VM, to handle all of your downloads before you play it.
Quite frankly in the bad old Napster days, when you downloaded random shit, if it only had a virus you were lucky, there was a tendency for MUCH worse surprises to be included.
My fave was spending a weekend downloading the good omens radio series to find it was Queen’s Greatest Hits
somebody stored their tapes in the glove bkx.
Aren’t we still vulnerable through VMs, though? I seem to remember reading something about why Qubes OS is safer than a regular VM, having to do w/ zero trust, etc.
Qubes has more layers to the security onion, its true.
But a VM is still a REALLY strong level of containment.
there was a tendency for MUCH worse surprises to be included.
Yeah, like strange unreleased Weird Al tracks with sex and drugs references… Every spoof was labeled weird Al back in 2000
Mindlessly downloading an episode that doesn’t get a mention on the wiki page is amateur hour.
Well, the good news is that it wasn’t actually another episode.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think entities that deliberately spread and use malware should be punished and held accountable. Too bad these entities help write the laws.
Anybody got a link?
Link for what?
Episod
