Suspicious Seeders & Leechers IP's -- from Big Brother?

[hein]

I excountered these two IP sections today in uTorent session:

208.10.X.X 38.100.X.X

There're bunch of them, and they results in abnormally frequent

"FAILED HASH CHECK" and abandoned trash data.

after a few hours of work, I found the posts about fake seeders & leechers at:

http://forums.etree.org/viewtopic.php?t=7496

where a guy asked about some suspicious IP sections which seemed to be fake seeders & leechers. That post is from May 2006, but the questioned IP's are exactly the ones I met today (Match 2007): 208.10.X.X 38.100.X.X

The horrible thing is that these two IP sections are both from Washington D.C. Could they be from FBI or any government agent? Big Brother?

[µtorrent-Guest]

may I introduce you to MediaSentry and their nice poisoning Range?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaSentry

if you are pissed, that they waste your bandwith, just block these 2 well known ranges they use in your ipfilter.dat file within µT

Edit:

P.S. That they are also on this copyrighted torrent and try to poison it, is in most of the cases a sign that the torrent is NOT a fake and the content is really what it claims to be.

P.S. P.S found a nice picture linked on TPB

http://userland.info/stuff/Bittorrent-poisoning.jpg