Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic
Found on TorrentFreak on Sunday, 13 May 2012
The company has developed a technology which allows them to attack existing BitTorrent swarms, making it impossible for people to share files.
“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,” Andrei Klimenko says.
Pirate Pay don’t disclose their exact rates but say they charge between $12,000 and $50,000 depending on the scope of the project.
So basically, they get paid to attack computers which do not belong to them. Last time I checked, this is perfectly illegal in most of the world (probably that's why this startup is based in Russia) and is even seen as a form of terrorism by some governments. Additionally, this also proves that the entertainment industry prefers to pay up to $50,000 for each torrent file to protect their old business model instead of funding projects which are actually interesting for their customers. Not that this is a great success anyway: the majority of clients already notice fake traffic and block IP addresses after some time. Not to forget the blocklists which are also available for download.