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P2P blocking

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http://piratepay.net

Pirate Pay

Products
  
Pirate Pay, Zilion Data

Pirate Pay is a tool set for the copy protection and content management of torrents for media content authors and publishers. Pirate Pay was founded in Russia in 2011. Currently, Pirate Pay operates on Japanese, Russian and Indian markets. 85% of Pirate Pay clients come from outside Russia. Today Pirate Pay technology blocks almost 5 million illegal downloads per month, processing about 1500 torrent-seeds. According to Dasreda, this saves more than $8 million to rightholders.

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History

The first product, Pirate Pay, was presented at the second Startup Point in Perm in April 2010. In 2011 brothers Andrei and Alexei Klimenko and their friend Dmitry Shuvaev established the Limited Liability Company Internet Contenet. The initial investment of $34,000 was furnished by the brothers themselves. The brothers continue to retain ownership of Pirate Pay.

More information

2010:
Participation in three competitions:

  • BIT 2010 - Finalist;
  • Competition for technology startups fund CRDF. "Best Business Model." Grant for project evaluation in Silicon Valley;
  • Competition at the "Higher School of Economics" - grant.

    • 2011:

  • In March 2011, the company won in the first competition of IT projects organized by Microsoft and received seed funding from the Foundation, a grant of $100,000.
  • In April 2011, company’s application passed through the competitive selection process for the S.T.A.R.T. program. In May the company signed a government contract with the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and technology (Bortnik Fund). The size of the grant from the fund was $34 thousand.
  • On 25 May 2011, The Pirate Pay became finalists of Red Herring top 100 Europe. This group of 100 companies are the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The Top 100 are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.
  • In December 2011, was the first experiment with alpha version of the service with film released by Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing (WDSSPR): "Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I’m Alive".

    • 2012:

  • The company has received the status of a resident of the Skolkovo and has become a grant recipient of the fund worth $1,2 million.
  • Pirate Pay signed up a partnership with Japanese company Unidam.

    • 2013:

  • In the spring of 2013, The Pirate Pay get $68 thousand from the program “START-2”.

    • Technical details

    Pirate Pay works with info-hashes of content in worldwide Peer-to-peer network. It don’t removes links and deals without interaction with torrents sites, links aggregators and search engines. Protection of any content from illegal distribution can be started with only the title name. Dozens of thousands code strings operate without human intervention to detect the required title name in the filesharing swarms directly, place it on protection and execute all necessary automated actions to prevent content downloading by leachers and uploading by seeders. Pirate Pay also operates with technology of first uploader search in swarm, finding the first infringer person for further offline legal activities.

    Other products

  • Zilion Data
  • Fair Play

    • References

    Pirate Pay Wikipedia
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