Claim to End 99% of Illegal Trading

Found on Slyck on Monday, 18 April 2005
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A Finnish based company called Viralg is predicting the end of unauthorised file sharing.

The company claims their patented "overwrite" technology can mix files on a P2P network, corrupting downloads and rendering them worthless to play.

Unlike current fake file spamming techniques used, Viralg claim their system is effective against those experienced at spotting fake files and even verified file sites.

"We make viable non-working file with a working file hash, so when someone tries to download a working file he/she will receive a random mix of working and non-working file. The final content depends on many things (bandwidth, sources etc.)"

"Simply, we can deliver corrupted content with the same hashcode," the press office informed Slyck.

The technique has not been tested with BitTorrent.

It might have some influence on weak P2P systems like Kazaa (who uses that anyway?), but modern sharing applications use smaller chunksizes and a better verification. That's why they didn't test it with Bittorrent. In a year or so, nobody will remember them. Unfortunately, they didn't put a list with the "protected" files online; I would have loved to test that. And their website is so cheap and useless.