UK Government Funds Anti-Piracy Outfit With Taxpayer Money

[shamu726]

The UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board has awarded £250,000 to the London-based anti-piracy outfit MUSO. The company will use the public funding to develop one of their new anti-piracy tools, which it says will benefit rightsholders and the local tech industry. Interestingly, a quick look at MUSO’s clients shows that despite the public funding, the company’s most prominent customers are not based in the UK.

The anti-piracy business is booming, with thousands of companies making a decent living by helping rightsholders to protect their work.

London-based MUSO is one of these outfits. The company has been around for a few years already and has evolved into one of the most active senders of DMCA requests to Google.

Earlier this month MUSO broke the one million URL barrier in respect of their DMCA takedown requests, while charging their clients between 8 and 24 cents per link. However, the company has bigger plans and is developing a new technology to convert pirates into paying customers.

To fund this new technology the company applied for a “Smart Award” grant from the Government’s Technology Strategy Board. After a careful review of MUSO’s proposal the Government awarded the anti-piracy outfit £250,000.

MUSO director Christopher Elkins is delighted with the news and says that the money will eventually benefit the UK tech sector and copyright holders.

“The grant award gives our R&D team an extremely robust financial position from which to develop this ambitious and forward-thinking product, to the benefit of the UK tech sector, and rights holders looking for new ways to further drive the online growth of great content,” Elkins says.

The question is, however, to what degree the UK will benefit from the investment. A quick look at MUSO’s top clients based on Google’s Transparency Report shows only foreign copyright holders.

The top five consists of the Indian movie studio “Eros International”, Canadian based “Entertainment One”, the Dutch publisher “Meulenhoff Boekerij”, “Nuclear Blast” from Germany, and Norway’s “Nordisk Film Distribution Norway.”

Another prominent associate of MUSO is the Russian social network VKontakte, who signed an agreement earlier this year allowing the UK company to monitor and report uploads of copyrighted material.

How the new technology will convert pirates into paying customers remains a mystery for now. The company is said to be starting a trial in the second quarter of next year but further details are lacking.

TorrentFreak contacted MUSO for more details on their plans but we have yet to receive a response. Previously the company announced a browser addon which will allow people to report infringing torrent and cyberlocker links to the company, but these have yet to be released to the public.

Source: TorrentFreak

[Ambrocious]

TRANSLATION: UK Government makes it's own people pay for thier own eventual full enslavment. It's not the first time people are forced to pay for something they don't want, here in the USA the taxpayers dollars also pay for abortions...

[GRiM]

TRANSLATION: UK Government makes it's own people pay for thier own eventual full enslavment. It's not the first time people are forced to pay for something they don't want, here in the USA the taxpayers dollars also pay for abortions...

And why shouldn't they?? An abortion is a medical procedure. Its your country's own fault it has a fucked up medical system where people have to pay for most health care.

Here in UK any and all health care is available for free to all.

[Ambrocious]

TRANSLATION: UK Government makes it's own people pay for thier own eventual full enslavment. It's not the first time people are forced to pay for something they don't want, here in the USA the taxpayers dollars also pay for abortions...

And why shouldn't they?? An abortion is a medical procedure. Its your country's own fault it has a fucked up medical system where people have to pay for most health care.

Here in UK any and all health care is available for free to all.

A Tracheotomy is a medical procedure. Scooping out the fetus of a human being is murder. You may not see life as valuable but I do. It is the disembodiment of empathy and care for each other that has got us in this messed up situation, so as long as we imagine that killing a fetus is simply a medical procedure, we will be under this oppressive curse. If we learn to value life of one another, we won't look at our future generations to come as expendable worthlessness. Edited October 31, 2013 by Ambrocious

[GRiM]

TRANSLATION: UK Government makes it's own people pay for thier own eventual full enslavment. It's not the first time people are forced to pay for something they don't want, here in the USA the taxpayers dollars also pay for abortions...

And why shouldn't they?? An abortion is a medical procedure. Its your country's own fault it has a fucked up medical system where people have to pay for most health care.

Here in UK any and all health care is available for free to all.

A Tracheotomy is a medical procedure. Scooping out the fetus of a human being is murder. You may not see life as valuable but I do. It is the disembodiment of empathy and care for each other that has got us in this messed up situation, so as long as we imagine that killing a fetus is simply a medical procedure, we will be under this oppressive curse. If we learn to value life of one another, we won't look at our future generations to come as expendable worthlessness.

That is your "opinion". Its not murder in my "opinion" the same way the morning after pill isn't either.

[Ambrocious]

TRANSLATION: UK Government makes it's own people pay for thier own eventual full enslavment. It's not the first time people are forced to pay for something they don't want, here in the USA the taxpayers dollars also pay for abortions...

And why shouldn't they?? An abortion is a medical procedure. Its your country's own fault it has a fucked up medical system where people have to pay for most health care.

Here in UK any and all health care is available for free to all.

A Tracheotomy is a medical procedure. Scooping out the fetus of a human being is murder. You may not see life as valuable but I do. It is the disembodiment of empathy and care for each other that has got us in this messed up situation, so as long as we imagine that killing a fetus is simply a medical procedure, we will be under this oppressive curse. If we learn to value life of one another, we won't look at our future generations to come as expendable worthlessness.

That is your "opinion". Its not murder in my "opinion" the same way the morning after pill isn't either.

Thats the difference between you and I. I value life and want to see people live healthy and I see people as PEOPLE. You would look at a fetus of a baby that could be born and hate it as if it was nothing important at all. Anyone who is pro abortion hates humanity. It's really that simple. It corrupts nations to allow the mass murder of innocent babies, which you don't see growing life as though it was life. It's because we can kill babies that we also have a problem with this whole march into tyranny. It's because of people who hate life and decency that we are in all of this trouble. People who think it's OK to murder babies before they are born believe that it is a "right" because it's "inconvenient". If new life is inconvenient then just go die. I'm sorry for being so harsh but seriously...if you can't find the value in life, no matter how underdeveloped it may be, you can't have any love for your fellow mankind.

The USA is under a sort of a curse I'm sure. You can't just murder millions of babies and be done with it. In medieval times when the black magic practioners would do thier rituals, they would practice the cutting open of a woman's stomach and take out the premature infant and kill it, usually to attempt to gain something personal from it. It doesn't matter if you don't believe in the dark arts, they did and they killed many babies that way. What we have in the USA today is the same system only a bit more..."civil". They may not slice open the stomach unless they have to, but either way, the baby dies. Sometimes the babies lay out in the open slowly dying...struggling to stay alive. Some babies in abortion clinics sit on the shelf for hours before dying. Did any of you know that Christian organizations will PAY pregnant women to NOT have an abortion? They will pay for medical costs of giving birth AND for adoption. Too bad it's oh so trendy to murder babies...how sick.

Edited October 31, 2013 by Ambrocious

[GRiM]

TL;DR

[Airstream_Bill]

Well at least you seem to know where the Tax Payers money is going over there. Here in the US they seem to loose track of what they do with it. Hum! All I know is that they always want MORE!

[Ambrocious]

TL;DR

Ignorance is power, I get it. :rolleyes:

Edited October 31, 2013 by Ambrocious

[GRiM]

TL;DR

Ignorance is power, I get it. :rolleyes:

Nope, I just cant stand your speeches. Especially this BS about pro life crap and your holier then though judgmental attitude saying I do not value life just because I respect a woman's right to choose to continue with a pregnancy or not.

I personally don't give a fuck what you think so refuse to read your long winded crap.

How is it that you turn just about every single topic on here to your own retarded infocrap agenda? I'll tell you why, because you're an attention seeking whore and cant help yourself. I remember the topic you created not long back telling everybody you was leaving etc etc, which was obviously just to seek more attention because if somebody wanted to leave they would just LEAVE. They wouldnt create a topic about them leaving.

Why don't you find a forum more suitable to your views?

Edited October 31, 2013 by GRiM

[Ambrocious]

TL;DR

Ignorance is power, I get it. :rolleyes:

Nope, I just cant stand your speeches. Especially this BS about pro life crap and your holier then though judgmental attitude saying I do not value life just because I respect a woman's right to choose to continue with a pregnancy or not.

I personally don't give a fuck what you think so refuse to read your long winded crap.

How is it that you turn just about every single topic on here to your own retarded infocrap agenda? I'll tell you why, because you're an attention seeking whore and cant help yourself. I remember the topic you created not long back telling everybody you was leaving etc etc, which was obviously just to seek more attention because if somebody wanted to leave they would just LEAVE. They wouldnt create a topic about them leaving.

Why don't you find a forum more suitable to your views?

Long winded crap...pro life crap....and I'm an attention seeking whore...no. I said I was leaving because I was upset that I could not post news articles in the news section and since I have been here for so long, I felt offended. I felt like I was being called dumb and being disrespected for wanting to post news that most people don't get to see because mainstream media is controlled mead, by the government. You may think that getting the truth out is a real crappy deal because you don't know it's true, you have been taught it is not true. You think it's a womans right to kill her unborn infant, thats messed up man.

Let me see who the monster is:

Me:

Pro life : I'm against the MURDER of innocent babies and other people who do not deserve to die, including adults.

You:

Pro choice: If the woman isn't happy with the life growing inside her, she has the right to kill it. Since it's underdeveloped, it really isn't human.

The logic used here is appalling and you and millions of others have been taught to devalue human life even over that of an animal. When you see animals being abused on TV, you ewww and ahhhh. When you see people get killed, you could care less. It's a taught way of life...to devalue human life, making it worth LESS than animals. Do you understand why this makes me a little upset.

And I wasn't planning on going really off topic, I mentioned pro life in comparison to how the taxpayers have to pay for abortions in the USA like how the UK makes their people pay for their enslavement. I don't think it's a good idea for it to happen but hey, I'm just the evil pro life guy who is glad you're parents didn't decide to abort you. I bet that makes me even MORE bad in your eyes doesn't it? How dare I stand up for your human rights, you must be so deeply offended by how I care that you were able to be born and LIVE.

If we don't value the life of each other we lose and it's game over. I once saw things your way but then luckily I realized how big of a lie the structured life was around me. I began questioning and wondering. I starting searching and found some info. This modern day abortion fiasco is nothing more than a modern version of a Nazi adopted thing called Eugenics. Today sadly it has morphed into a whole other thing.

Today it's cool to love death and hate life. You GRiM need to reconsider that maybe life IS important BEFORE it it enters this world. How could it be a choice issue if you just look and see what is the result of life being born into this world. Extinguishing a life before it even has a chance to live fully is beyond bully like behavior.

Let me know if you wanna see what it's like inside an abortion clinic, you might change your mind about being pro choice.

Edited October 31, 2013 by Ambrocious

[Sonar]

Please don't go off-topic! specially onto a touchy subject like that.

[GRiM]

blah blah blah

Sorry, TL;DR .....again.

Edited October 31, 2013 by GRiM

[The Shadow]

Damn, I hate wack-jobs and I hate trolls. I especially hate wack-job-trolls, and this site has gotten horribly infected and nearly smothered by them. No wonder all but a couple of the decent coders have quit coming here. Nsane was once the best software/DL site ever. Now it is overrun by :shit:-heads and il-mannered, mentally defective, punks whose institutions and parents make the rest of the world put up with them by letting them play on a computer to stay occupied instead of teaching them something useful like basket-weaving, or how to change their own underwear/diapers, or if they are too looney, delusional, and sour for that, then give them the lobotomy they need and deserve! Like every other former nsane regular with good sense, I'm GONE. :moon:

[Reefa]

the Government awarded the anti-piracy outfit £250,000

Tax payers money..Ye right that's probably all the money they have taken off the sick,old and needy by stopping there benefits and heating allowance..Fuck you tory scum..You no youv'e got a lot of blood on your hands!

[GRiM]

Damn, I hate wack-jobs and I hate trolls. I especially hate wack-job-trolls, and this site has gotten horribly infected and nearly smothered by them. No wonder all but a couple of the decent coders have quit coming here. Nsane was once the best software/DL site ever. Now it is overrun by :shit:-heads and il-mannered, mentally defective, punks whose institutions and parents make the rest of the world put up with them by letting them play on a computer to stay occupied instead of teaching them something useful like basket-weaving, or how to change their own underwear/diapers, or if they are too looney, delusional, and sour for that, then give them the lobotomy they need and deserve! Like every other former nsane regular with good sense, I'm GONE. :moon:

Indeed, which is why I refuse to read his crap.

He posts on here instead of the other wack-job forums because he likes attention and because he wont get it as much on those forums. Instead he does it on here so he stands out. He is like an attention seeking bitch who must be ignored.

[shamu726]

Ambrocious and GRiM, can u two please drop it? Don't hijack the thread and go off topic. If u want to go at each other about abortion or which of u is the bigger attention seeker, create a topic in The Chat Bar and have at it. Just don't do it here. :angry: :bruce:

[GRiM]

Ambrocious and GRiM, can u two please drop it? Don't hijack the thread and go off topic. If u want to go at each other about abortion or which of u is the bigger attention seeker, create a topic in The Chat Bar and have at it. Just don't do it here. :angry: :bruce:

What, because I retaliated to an attention seeker that makes me one??

I dont think so.