‘Cloud Computing’ stymies attempt to prevent P2P filesharing

Pc Pro reports that in an attempt to stop the flow of copyrighted materials, famed Torrent site, The Pirate Bay, was shutdown by Swedish courts.  According to reports by McAfee, a wealth of sites sprang up to carry on the charge, and the number of sites hosting Torrents expanded by 300%.

Pc Pro writes:

…but any hope of scotching the piracy of music, software and films over the web vanished as copycat sites sprung up and the content took on a life of its own.

Just goes to show, you can’t destroy an ant hill by killing a few ants here and there.

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