garyopa
05-17-2012, 09:49 AM
Russian start-up.
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Pirate Pay is a Software tool that poses as real bit torrent users but then 'confuses' peer-to-peer networks, causing disconnections...
Pirate Pay is a software start-up solution made by a Russian company. This one is funded by Microsoft, having received a $100,000 investment last year.
And it looks like they "found a way" to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. The tool poses as real bit torrent users but then "confuses" peer-to-peer networks, causing disconnections...
So how does Pirate Pay's system work? TorrentFreak writes that the company's technology allows them to attack existing BitTorrent swarms, meaning people cannot share files. The creators of the system said they set out to make a traffic management solution for ISPs three years ago but when they realized was the system was capable of, they adjusted their business plan.
Apparently, the team behind Pirate Pay said during an interview that their first project stopped nearly 50,000 downloads, but...
A recent campaign saw Pirate Pay "protect" recent Russian film Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I am Alive".
Pirate Pay said it blocked 44,845 attempted illegal downloads of the film.
However, as the Torrent Freak blog pointed out, the blocked downloaders might have simply just tried again later.
The company says they will be charging clients between $12,000 and $50,000, depending on the resources needed to defend their piece of work.
NEWS SOURCE #1: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Pirate-Pay-Piracy-BitTorrent-Blocker-Pirate-Bay,15621.html
NEWS SOURCE #2: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18056727
Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news story!
http://www.maxconsole.com/maxconsole/contents/RKLS0000008645/icon_xl.jpg
Pirate Pay is a Software tool that poses as real bit torrent users but then 'confuses' peer-to-peer networks, causing disconnections...
Pirate Pay is a software start-up solution made by a Russian company. This one is funded by Microsoft, having received a $100,000 investment last year.
And it looks like they "found a way" to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. The tool poses as real bit torrent users but then "confuses" peer-to-peer networks, causing disconnections...
So how does Pirate Pay's system work? TorrentFreak writes that the company's technology allows them to attack existing BitTorrent swarms, meaning people cannot share files. The creators of the system said they set out to make a traffic management solution for ISPs three years ago but when they realized was the system was capable of, they adjusted their business plan.
Apparently, the team behind Pirate Pay said during an interview that their first project stopped nearly 50,000 downloads, but...
A recent campaign saw Pirate Pay "protect" recent Russian film Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I am Alive".
Pirate Pay said it blocked 44,845 attempted illegal downloads of the film.
However, as the Torrent Freak blog pointed out, the blocked downloaders might have simply just tried again later.
The company says they will be charging clients between $12,000 and $50,000, depending on the resources needed to defend their piece of work.
NEWS SOURCE #1: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Pirate-Pay-Piracy-BitTorrent-Blocker-Pirate-Bay,15621.html
NEWS SOURCE #2: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18056727
Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news story!