It seems Warner Bros’ patience with online pirates has snapped, as the company has decided to recruit a student to spy on illegal downloaders, with the advertised role being based at Manchester University.

Fancy spending your days “performing trap purchases of pirated product and logging results”?

The official job title is ‘anti-piracy intern’ and comes with a 12-month contract and a salary of £17,500 (just under € 19,500), according to TechRadar. The vacancy will involve the ‘monitoring’ of file-sharing sites and reporting back any findings.

A more detailed description of the position can be found at Warner Bros official site, where the company says the full duties consist of: “monitoring local Internet forums and IRC for pirated WB and NBCU content and in order to gather information on pirate sites, pirate groups and other pirate activities; finding new and maintaining existing accounts on private sites; scanning for links to hosted pirated WB and NBCU content and using tools to issue takedown requests; maintaining and developing bots for Internet link scanning system (training provided); preparing sending of infringement notices and logging feedback; performing trap purchases of pirated product and logging results; inputting pirate hard goods data and other intelligence into the forensics database; selecting local keywords and submitting local filenames for monitoring and countermeasure campaigns and periodically producing research documents on piracy related technological developments.”

Sounds interesting, though as several sites have pointed out, the job may well leave you as public enemy number one with a lot of your fellow download-happy students. You only have until close of business tomorrow to apply though so make your mind up quickly if you fancy it.