Here's a tale of deception that's juicy enough to make Hollywood executives drool, or so its star conspirator would hope.

The notorious file-sharing site UploaderTalk has been revealed to be part of the anti-piracy campaign, backed by the organization Nuke Piracy, based in Arkansas.

For a year UploaderTalk has been enabling users to download retail files for free, and all the while collecting their data in a guise of innocence. The site's operator, who goes by the name

WDF, has revealed the true nature of UploaderTalk, telling The Guardian, that he's behind “the biggest swerve ever.”

He goes on to explain, surely in a bid to break the hearts of his trillions of fans: “I, WDF, work for the anti-piracy people! I collected info on file hosts, Web hosts, websites. I suckered shitloads of you!” 


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WDF isn't new to the pirating scene, which is part of why he speaks with such ego. He developed followers – and trust – in his previous role as a senior member of another high-profile file-sharing site called Wjunction. To use terrorist terminology as heard on “Homeland” (which if you watch, you hopefully watch on Showtime, like a good boy or girl), WDF was evidently “turned.” At some point he had a change of heart that led him to go the way of the law. Probably, his heart is very close to his wallet.

The term for this kind of piracy narc-center is “honeypot,” and they're popping up all over. They are designed to lure torrenters into swapping data for movies, music, TV shows, etc.

What WDF or Nuke Piracy intent to do with the data its been collecting has not been disclosed. Nuke Piracy has stated on its website “Proprietary and unconventional methods we do not discuss or disclose our methodologies, processes, and procedures publicly.”

But the outcome won't be good for the users who participated in illegal downloading via UploaderTalk.