Forget suing filesharers: in 2014, anti-piracy efforts follow the money

Taking individual filesharers to court is now a discredited anti-piracy strategy for even the most hawkish music, film and software industry rightsholders. Their preferred approach in 2014 is to follow the money instead.That means focusing their efforts on piracy sites, through three main tactics: pressuring search engines to remove links to infringing files and demote piracy sites in their rankings; forcing ISPs to block their customers from accessing those sites; and trying to squeeze their flow of advertising revenues.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/infringing-websites-list-anti-piracy

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