Apparently, HBO is “poisoning” the downloads of its newest mini-series, Rome:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051007-5401.html

If you use Azureus, you’ll need to download the plug-in: SafePeer, which can actively blacklist the “bad” servers. This is important for people like me, with access to legal HBO, but a desire to download things like this for on the road.