Film studios 'launch cyber attacks on torrent sites'2010-09-09 09:12 by DanielaTags: DDoS, torrent
An Indian firm has blithely admitted carrying out DDoS attacks on illegal torrent websites on behalf of movie companies including 20th Century Fox. Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software, said he's hired by the studios to trawl the internet in the days following a movie's release. Using software which searches for relevant keywords, Aiplex looks for sites hosting illegally pirated copies. The firm then delivers copyright takedown notices to the sites' owners. "Most movies are released on Friday morning at 10am in India. The movie is released in the morning - by afternoon it's on the internet," he told The Age. "Generally speaking 95 per cent of... providers do remove the content. It's only the torrent sites - 20 to 25 per cent of the torrent sites - that do not have respect for any of the copyright notices." Read more -here-
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