[Philip Lelyveld comment: Neither the article nor the Pirate Pay website explains how their pirate file torrent interception technology works. It will be interesting to see if there is any substance behind it, since it could be useful for reducing (nothing 'stops' anything online) identity theft and privacy violations as well.]
The Russian based “Pirate Pay” startup is promising the entertainment industry a pirate-free future. With help from Microsoft, the developers have built a system that claims to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. Their first project, carried out in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads. ...
Read the full story here: http://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-funded-startup-aims-to-kill-bittorrent-traffic-120513/