VIRALG, a company in Finland which claimed to have discovered an algorithm which was ‘guaranteed’ to stop p2p file sharing, has again come up trumps with a new way to block online file sharing with applications such as Ares. With a track record like theirs, who could doubt that this will work like a dream? No, says P2Pnet.
Its P2P blocker, Viralg says, will wipe out even ‘professional’ swappers, whatever that means. Naturally Viralg have yet to outline their plan to attack the real problem that eclipses illegal file sharing: the professional criminal counterfeiters and duplicaters that provide pirated CDs and DVDs to willing customers. Further still it does not address the root of all this ‘evil’ which is the Media and copyright owners’ reluctance to accept the reality that customers don’t always to pay the draconian prices charged for music and movies.
Viralg have, predictably, had problems selling their latest new ideas. Instead, then they’re going to sell the details to filesharers so that they can prevent any anti-P2P technology that is produced using their magic system. There haven’t been many takers, and this stinks to us like an attempt to switch sides. Not only that it is sure to be doom the company to having no purchasers on either side of the ‘fence’. Whoops.
If Viralg had had the patience to develop their product, market it properly and then talk to the right people, they could have come out with some cash or some funding. Instead they tried to sell the patent on ebay (absolutely true). This is all indicative of an attempt to make a quick buck and not of an organisation that believes in its product and takes it seriously.