A Finnish based company called Viralg is predicting the end of unauthorised file sharing.

Quote: The company claims their patented “overwrite” technology can mix files on a P2P network, corrupting downloads and rendering them worthless to play. “On the market where our competitors can only offer a mediocre service for blocking illegal file swapping our solution means totally new level of revenue protection. By utilizing Viralg´s technology we can guarantee 99% protection for intellectual property like music, movie and game content in all the main peer to peer networks,” the company brag in their press release. Unlike current fake file spamming techniques used, Viralg claim their system is effective against those experienced at spotting fake files and even verified file sites. “Spoofing companies are only spamming the networks with corrupted files that can be easily identified and avoided with verification sites, latest incoming P2P clients or by experienced users with the right knowledge,” the press release states. Slyck spoke to Viralg to discover how this can be possible. “We make viable non-working file with a working file hash, so when someone tries to download a working file he/she will receive a random mix of working and non-working file. The final content depends on many things (bandwidth, sources etc.) "Simply, we can deliver corrupted content with the same hashcode,” the press office informed Slyck.

Thread necromancy...

but damn... thier service didnt work =P

P2P will never end. I bet someone already patched the vulnerable networks to render the anti p2p software useless.

Quote: “We make viable non-working file with a working file hash, so when someone tries to download a working file he/she will receive a random mix of working and non-working file. The final content depends on many things (bandwidth, sources etc.)

So basically, they are editing the md5 File? Or are they putting a non working file into the network with a "true" md5 hash? If so, this doesnt seem possible. If you build another md5 hash on the "fake" file and examin it with the "true" file, you would notice a difference. If they matched, its means you got the true file, and if they are different, it means youve got a "fake" or "false" file.

For example, If I took a cd say, CD1 made a "true" md5 file, and then corrupted the file, put them together, I would have a false CD but with a "true" md5. Thats IF that statment is true, its my interpretation of this article.