Microsoft-Funded Startup To Kill BitTorrent

[Dapen]

Once again the rich attacking the not so.

[citan]

maybe if they made better products, less people would actually pirate them ;)

[Osiris]

Yeah the news article telling me theres more anti-piracy ads on your dvds and blu ray now really motivate me to go purchase those >.>

[compl3x]

Sigh, when will people get it. The point is NOT to stop piracy. Piracy is accepted by the large companies, it factors into their estimates.

The point is twofold:

1) Be seen to be doing something.

2) Slow down piracy so at least the major revenue from the first x weeks sales are strong.

Seems they fail to do either:

1). No one thinks what they are doing will work. And historically never has.

2). People still pirate things when they are first released. Arguably, that might be the peak time when product x is pirated.

Offer competitive pricing, better distribution methods, DRM free...... Oh blah blah. they never listen.

[ExtremeG]

It's ironic that a Russian based company is now working with the Americans to try and stop piracy when the majority of illegal content comes from Russian based computers and servers anyway, one example was the website MP3skyline which was a Russian attempt at selling mp3's and claiming it was a legal operation when it was not, the mp3's being sold were all group scene rips downloaded from P2P networks.

Sounds like PsyOps.