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.
The idea started three years ago when the developers were building a
traffic management solution for Internet providers. The technology
worked well. It was able to stop BitTorrent traffic if needed, which
made the developers realize that they might have built the holy
anti-piracy grail.
