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[Burned Phoenix]

Microsoft has invested in a Russian based company "Pirate Pay" that 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.

Last year Pirate Pay received a $100,000 investment from the Microsoft Seed Financing Fund. Microsoft Russia's president praised the innovative idea, which his company would also be able to use in the future.

Source: Torrentfreak

[Tataarujin]

Russian based company "Pirate Pay"

Wait a week, I'm off to destroy it to the ground level.

[pcHuntqwerty]

I read the title wrong. I thought Microsoft invested in Pirate Bay.

[Preath]

I read the title wrong. I thought Microsoft invested in Pirate Bay.

Yeah, me too. I like dafuuuq!? Through the text.

[Afzal]

This is against the freedom of the internet.

[Secured Tim]

This is against the freedom of the internet.

They will block the copyrighted material only.

[xsever]

Worry not boys! Anonymous will hit them soon probably

[Tataarujin]

This is against the freedom of the internet.

They will block the copyrighted material only.

They will use all possible tricks to claim that even content created by you is illegal and should be blocked.

[Darren 54]

Megaupload is down, Rapidshare doesn't allow illegal files anymore, and BitTorrent traffic is going to be blocked...PIRATES ARE DOOMED!

[Chrominator]

Wow, is it even possible?

[yanike]

Open Source users are not infected. Going back to work smiling.

[old5chool]

Wow, is it even possible?

I get a slowdown on many torrents now, but after a while it cleans up and then it's ok; plus a fresh IP blocklist and that's about it.