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Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic

Posted by timothy on from the momma-said-knock-you-out dept.

TheGift73 writes "The Russian based 'Pirate Pay' startup is promising the entertainment industry a pirate-free future. With help from Microsoft, the developers have built a system that claims to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. Their first project, carried out in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads. Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business. Billions in revenue are lost each year, they claim. But not for long if the Russian based startup 'Pirate Pay' has its way. The company has developed a technology which allows them to attack existing BitTorrent swarms, making it impossible for people to share files."

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  1. OH CHRIST WHEN WILL IT END??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm so sick and tired of all these thieves, there I said it, THIEVES stealing other people work! "Oh it's not stealing it's copying, you don;t lose what you have..." no no, seriously, f-off with that. I CREATED something, I MADE IT, I am unwilling to just fork it over. You have to pay. I don;t care what you THINK it's worth, it's mine. If you made a program that can do something that people want, it's yours, you put the price on it and if people want it they have to pay that price. The market determines if it's worth it.

    You bloody file-sharers are KILLING US! the industry is being crippled for the last couple of decades, again.

    We (cumulatively) are losing hundreds of billions Every. Single. Year. Media companies are going bust, artists are living on the streets and musicians are forced to play live music again to earn a living - Seriously people WTF, OK? W. T. F.?!

    It's about time a serious effort to combat piracy is made. We've shut down lycos mp3 search, shutdown napster, Kazaa, The Pirate Bay and Megaupload. You (copyright violator) better watch out cause you're next on the hit list!

    The fact is, if this technology fails to stop rampant piracy, the next step is to take file sharers (Being the root of all evil), drag them naked in front of their families and have them shót, the footage of which shall be shared via torrent sites.

    P.S.

    Just wait until we DRM your dog. You will not be able to pet it unless it's in the right petting zone, you would not be able to let your neighbor look after it unless you bought a neighbor license, in fact you don;t even own that dog, it's a rental.