P2P blocklists fail to protect privacy from copyright cops’ mass monitoring

UK researchers present findings from a two-year study on BitTorrent piracy. The more popular the content downloaded, the faster copyright enforcers will log the IP of those sharing it, they say. Ustream’s live webcast coverage of the Hugo Awards ceremony was cut off by copyright-enforcement bots. The six-strikes anti-piracy scheme is coming later this year to the U.S. ISPs: AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. Vobile was also used to prevent unauthorized distribution of London Olympics content.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2223071/p2p-blocklists-fail-to-protect-privacy-from-copyright-cops–mass-monitoring.html