McAfee schlock-horror ‘piracy’ report

Sat,07 Nov 2009 07:24 GMT -4:00 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/30658

- Shutting down individual websites does nothing to stem the flow of piracy, says a security ‘report’ quoted by news.com.au.

Unfortunately, the ‘report’ originates with McAfee, not the most reliable of sources.

It regularly produces schlock-horror PR puff pieces disguised as press statements, and experiences difficulty distinguishing real problems from unreal ones.

A new report, “shows a spike in the number of websites hosting copyright infringing content in the month that infamous file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was shut down,” says the story.

It goes on »»»

The site was forced offline in August by a Swedish court order following a legal battle with motion picture and music industry groups.

The Pirate Bay came back online a short time later, but, according to McAfee, there was a significant jump in new file-sharing sites during the downtime.

“The Pirate Bay example shows how difficult it is to ’stop’ data once it is on the web,” the report said, noting »»»

Although a website can be shut down, anyone who has accessed the content (pictures, games, text, movies, etc) may still have some and be able to redistribute it.

Oh, Really ?!

No need to stay tuned.

(Cheers, Andrew)

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi

news.com.au – Piracy increased in days after Pirate Bay closed, November 3, 2009

schlock-horror PR puff pieces – New McAfee ‘report’, October 20, 2009

experiences difficulty – McAfee targets . Again., August 28, 2008




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