Denounce your peers and get paid

Peerfactor asks Internet users to distribute on P2P networks (KaZaA, eMule, Morpheus, etc.) music, films, software or video games. The files are fakes and may contain an extract or a trial version of a copyrighted work.

The goal is to "trap" Internet users who try to download illegal contents on P2P networks. When they try to open a PeerFactor file they have downloaded, they will be automatically redirected to an authorized web site, where they can buy a legal version of the product they wanted to steal.

Each time that a P2P user is redirected to a legal Web site, and each time that someone legally buys a product, the Peerfactor member being at the origin of this redirection or this purchase gets a commission.

Since the launch of the programme, in early April, thousands of people applied to become member of the scheme.

From L'Expansion.