Microsoft’s Windows 10 To Block Downloads From Kodi, TPB, Kickass And Others

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Microsoft to stop illegal downloads as Kodi, The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents and others to be blocked in Windows 10

The fight against piracy has been a long one. With people on either side of the fight & debate sticking to their guns on the matter. However, it now looks like the software giant might change the piracy landscape once and for all.

New Patent

This report comes on the basis of a new patent filed by Microsoft that could potentially allow it to block content being shared without the copyright holder’s permission. If true, this action could snip the problem of unauthorized content sharing right at the root.

Microsoft’s patent relies on fingerprint recognition to identify the source of these illegal files and block them. Along with blocking these files, users who frequently share files without authorization could end up being singled out and punished. This system, if implemented could be much more effective in stomping out piracy than the current system of the copyright holder issuing legal notices.

The patent filed by Microsoft reads as :

“Objects in a shared storage system can be marked as including prohibited content. Incidents that result in objects being so marked can be stored in an incident history associated with a user responsible for those objects. The incident history can be processed to identify repeat offenders and modify access privileges of those users.”

“However, when objects are shared by one user with another user, prohibited content is blocked from being shared, while the remainder of the shared objects can be accessed by the other user. Functions that allow sharing of content are implemented so as prevent sharing of prohibited content with another user, while allowing other content to be shared. If a group of files or objects is shared, then the presence of prohibited content in one object in the group results in that prohibited content not being shared, but the remaining files or objects are still shared.”

Source - https://www.techworm.net/2017/05/microsofts-windows-10-block-downloads-kodi-pirate-bay-kickasstorrents-others.html

 

[Mawathagama]

There will always be a patch for that. I am sure of that much. No worries.

 

[tharakato]

I don't think they can disable sharing compressed files. all you have to do is download torrents using an external website. then direct download compressed torrent media from that site.

 

[Sachira123]

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[HKavinda]

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