IIDF has offered the government to expand the blocking of sites with pirated content on the distribution of torrent files. This was reported to Vedomosti by the fund’s portfolio manager Sergey Negodyaev. Now the law allows blocking pages at a specific address, and in order to stop pirated torrent distributions, it is necessary to allow operators to block info-caches - unique distribution identifiers. Moreover, it does not require amendments to the main anti-piracy law, it is enough to make changes to the bylaws, he says.
According to Negodyaev, the IIDF’s proposal is based on ideas developed by Oppty (Internet Content LLC, owned by IIDF). Its technology Pirate Pay allows you to detect torrent files that contain links to a movie, music and other content, and block their distribution.
Read more on the Vedomosti website.
That is, it is assumed that in case of adoption of these recommended bylaws, it will no longer be links to the site of torrent trackers, but specifically distributions by hashes. They will block with the help of Pirate Pay technology, about which articles on Habré already seem to have been.
Here, for example . At the same time, it is unclear whether this technology works at all, or is it all a complete hype.
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Confirmation that something still works, maybe
this incident . It was noticed that on some hands there appeared a huge number of peers with IPv6 addresses that would spam with requests for downloading real sids, thereby clogging their request queue. The torrent client blocks such peers, but there are too many of them. Perhaps this is Pirate Pay technology in action.