Do you know your way around the internet, mainly torrent trackers, yet hate your fellow torrenters? Well, Warner Bros. would like to hire you to suck the soul out of media piracy. They’re looking for IT students in England to ‘go undercover’ on private torrents sites and their IRC channels and gather information about WB and NBCU content. Job description under the cut.
During the 12 month internship, duties will include: monitoring local Internet forums and IRC for pirated WB and NBCU content and in order to gather information on pirate sites, pirate groups and other pirate activities; finding new and maintaining existing accounts on private sites; scanning for links to hosted pirated WB and NBCU content and using tools to issue takedown requests; maintaining and developing bots for Internet link scanning system (training provided); preparing sending of infringement notices and logging feedback; performing trap purchases of pirated product and logging results; inputting pirate hard goods data and other intelligence into the forensics database; selecting local keywords and submitting local filenames for monitoring and countermeasure campaigns and periodically producing research documents on piracy related technological developments. Various training will be provided.
“performing trap purchases of pirated product and logging results” – Is that supposed to be uploading WB content and keeping track of who downloads it? Sneaky move Warner Bros.
While I can appreciate their desire to understand internet piracy, and I know it’s not specifically for music, I like Universal’s idea to lower the price of CD’s to combat piracy much better.
via CrunchGear
