Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic

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"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."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/13/1928215/microsoft-funded-startup-aims-to-kill-bittorrent-traffic?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29



http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/13/pirate_pay_dos_against_torrents/

 

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However, what’s also clear at least under laws familiar to El Reg is that computer crimes legislation doesn’t distinguish between “good” and “evil” DoS. It defines any “impairment of electronic communication to or from a computer” as breaking the law. ®

So they are running Denial of Service attacks on "swarms" of people who are torrenting....

How is this a solution?

All they did was muddy the water....

 

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Yet another solution in search of a problem. The potential for abuse, technical issues, and the prublic's response will I hope kill this turkey.