MPAA Dirties Hands with Fake Torrent for Pirate-Busting

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There’s nothing dirtier than a self-righteous agency that dips into unarguably unethical practices to nail, uh, unethical practices.

So with that completely objective introduction, we present you with Miivi.net. “Hey,” you say. “That site doesn’t exist.” That’s because it was taken down after a “D’oh!” by the MPAA, which realized, the hard way, that pirates – real pirates – stick together.

With help from an equally pompous agency called Media Defender, the MPAA launched fake movie torrent Miivi, which promised “fast and easy downloading all in one great site.” The real purpose of the great site was to catch sinners in the act of sinning. There was even an app that simplified the downloading process.

Pirate Bay called shenanigans, leaking news of the gross deception to ZeroPaid. The site got pulled shortly thereafter.

Dumbasses.

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