Hmm another of Overpeers rivals speaks out to no doubt gain a litttle market share
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17558552%255E36375,00.htmlIt monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, constantly searching for the files specific songs or films that users are seeking from one another. If someone requests a song Media Defender has been hired to protect, then it springs into action. It might flood the network with tens of thousands of decoy files, creating a "needle-in-a-haystack" situation.
Another strategy is to send out thousands of its own requests for the same song, confusing the system. The idea is to frustrate file-sharers, although the company insists that it does not actually intrude on people's computers, the move that recently landed record company Sony BMG in hot water.
At first, the industry largely dismissed Media Defender, preferring instead to fight piracy with lawsuits. But that changed as companies such as Napster were displaced by open-source networks such as Gnutella, decentralised file-sharing communities that no person or entity technically controlled.
"There was no one to sue," Herrera says. "That's when we really started to get used."
Nowadays, Media Defender works with the four big record labels and all but one of the seven largest Hollywood film studios. At any one time, it protects tens of thousands of songs. Its pricing depends on such factors as the level of protection a company demands, the type of content to be protected, and the length of time.
Nothing new here then and easily defeated if it was used on WinMX and everyone used the blocklist, they seem to forget all connections have to originate from somewhere. :roll:
Still nice to hear this sort of lame companies boasts of 95% effectivity when in reality its probably very much less as the P2P population has increased
