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Film company Warner Bros is going deep into enemy terrain to source its new agents in a crack-down on illegal file-sharing. Tech-savvy IT students at Manchester University are being invited to apply for a year-long role as Anti-Piracy Intern with the company.

Students are notoriously some of the worst file-sharing offenders - with vast university communities streaming content across their halls via internal networks and BitTorrent sites and it is this familiarity the company is looking to harness for counterintelligence.

The chosen candidate will earn £17,500 over the year performing duties such as monitoring local tech blogs and forums, compiling a database of pirated hard goods, ferreting out illegally posted Warner Bros and NBC Universal content, developing link-scanning spy bots and entrapment to purchase pirated goods.

The trouble is, now the torrent forums have grown wise to the idea, they are offering to rehire the hapless student as a triple agent, reporting back to the pirates themselves with information on Warner Bros' anti-piracy strategy.

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