Norton Scientific Journal : Russian Startup Pirate Pay Claims to Stop Illegal Downloads
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An up-and-coming Russian tech startup gained...
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Norton Scientific Journal : Russian Startup Pirate Pay Claims to Stop Illegal Downloads
http://nortonscientificjournal.
com/research/2012/06/06/russian-startup-pirate-pay-claims-to-stop-illegaldownloads/
An up-and-coming Russian tech startup gained financial backing from Microsoft for developing a new
technology that claims to shut down illegal downloads through torrents.
Pirate Pay (a homage to the prominent file-sharing site The Pirate Bay) has apparently stopped thousands
of illegal downloads during a project carried out with big-time producers.
The Seed Financing Fund of Microsoft invested about USD 100,000 along with Russia’s Fund for
Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology’s (Bortnik Fund) USD 34,000.
The founding team responsible for the project is composed of three Russian programmers — brothers
Alexei and Andrei Klimenko together with Dmitry Shuvaev.
Initially, they planned to build a program
that could handle traffic management for file-sharin
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