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Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic
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."
Which is why, as another poster pointed out, this is such a good thing to happen.
It will force the protocol to evolve, and even better, force people into more private swarms. It is far better to have 100 private swarms all exchanging encrypted traffic, while not exchanging peers (the tracker is there for that), and for people to create new private swarms between their peers. You compromise a single private swarm it will do insignificant damage to the overall traffic.
I want attacks like this to continue. The PTB is a shit stain on an Internet traffic, just as much as Limewire, Kazaa, etc. Public swarms are mostly infected, low quality, garbage.
It's time for regular people to be forced to get an education again on how the Internet works.