Microsoft-funded startup Pirate Pay aims to kill illegal torrenting
2012-05-15 08:51 by Daniela
Tags: Pirate Pay, torrent
A Russian company has developed software it says can disrupt and prevent people from downloading pirated content. The system is called Pirate Pay and according to reports, so far they have managed to stop tens of thousands of downloads in a collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures. The system was sponsored by Microsoft. "We used a number of servers to make a connection to each and every P2P client that distributed this film. Then Pirate Pay sent specific traffic to confuse these clients about the real IP-addresses of other clients and to make them disconnect from each other," said Andrei Klimenko, Pirate Pay CEO in an interview. "After creating the prototype, we realized we could more generally prevent files from being downloaded, which meant that the program had great promise in combating the spread of pirated content." "It was not so hard to do from inside an ISP's network. But to turn the technology into global service, we had to convince all ISPs to acquire our solution. This is, what someone could call, mission impossible. So to create a global service, we had to find the way to do it from the cloud," said Klimenko. "So we needed money for development." Read more -here-
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