Anti-Piracy Technology For Sale On eBay For $1m

[Cobra]

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-technology-for-sale-on-ebay-for-1m-070925/

In 2005, anti-piracy company Viralg burst onto the file-sharing scene promising to end 99% of all online piracy. Today, if you need a top secret piracy solution, have an eBay account, can collect in person and have $1,000,000 burning a hole in your pocket, you’re in luck.

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Viralg claimed to be able to create a corrupted file but with a working hash, giving it the appearance of a genuine file. As people downloaded they got a selection of genuine and corrupt parts sent to them rendering the final file useless. Although partially effective on the FastTrack network (KaZaA [R.I.P] )years ago, Viralg’s offer of 40 hours of training to use the system still doesn’t cut it in today’s BitTorrent dominated file-sharing world.

Before Prince gets any fancy ideas about buying this for the Web Sheriff to use against The Pirate Bay, this outdated system is pretty useless against BitTorrent, which renders its ‘Patented Virtual Algorithm’, well - useless.

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Maybe some of the sales statistics will tempt prospective buyers? The system has been running since 2003, and in that time it generated a turnover of $500,000. Potential buyers are likely to be more interested in the bottom line, especially now that the bottom has fallen out of the FastTrack network.

Ebay Auction: Viralg's P2P patent applications. Inc. US 20050108248


I'm not sure whether to laugh or just poke fun. In 4 years they have had a turnover of $500,000 and are now trying to sell it for twice that. Doesn't that mean at the same rate and sucess they were having (which would be highly unlikely) you would be lucky to finally break even after 8 years?

Whatever.

[James420]

Eh, this is old news since his crap-ware was mainly developed for the Fast Track network...and honestly. Who uses Kazaa any more? Also, his method would never work in the p2p world. Which is what is dominating the p2p world online, and probably always will. Still was a good laugh, wonder if he actually thought someone would bid on it...