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Tech News : Police placing anti-piracy warning ads on illegal sites.

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Headline : Police placing anti-piracy warning ads on illegal sites.

"The City of London police has started placing banner advertisements on websites believed to be offering pirated content illegally.

The messages, which will appear instead of paid-for ads, will ask users to close their web browsers.

The move comes as part of a continuing effort to stop piracy sites from earning money through advertising."



My thoughts :

I can't see someone seeing this and immediately stopping what they are doing. :(. Its as impotent as the ISP providers sending letters but not doing anything.

Source : BBC News.
Read more here : http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28523738
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The more people they deter though helps. As fast as sites are closed new ones such as .eu and .se for example, spring up overnight.

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The trouble is Toby most people who repeatedly do this use ip blockers or software which gives out a fake IP address
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@Toby wrote:
I've often been surprised that these messages do not somehow record the viewers IP details so that repeated use can lead to an investigation. Unless that is already happening.

They could do easily but on the other hand it is easy to hide the IP address where you are.

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Plus some isp's give non fixed ip addresses.
The larger subscription services become, the more people will switch. Blockbuster learned this the hard way and made the studios and labels take note and adapt.
There will always be piracy but if Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, Sony, Google music etc all keep advancing and tailoring fees to more interesting packages, the piracy will become pointless to the majority.
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browni
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@viridis wrote:
Plus some isp's give non fixed ip addresses.


Most do. I miss my semi-static IP address from O2 which would change about once a year (if that!)

@I do have the option of getting a static IP of Sky but it involves changing packages to their Pro package @ £5 per month extra and almost certainly slam dunked into a new 12 month contract 

Fully agree with the rest of your post.

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@Toby I'm sure that this is already happening, at least we have the technology to do it... the famous cookies! They should be used for other things apart from advertising.

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The thing with network services like Tor, they split up data between several nodes adding encrypting data at every stage. So it can be even harder to identify what people are downloading or sharing, althrough ISP's can still monitor users if they need to or have to. 

 

 

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