An Indian company has admitted that serves Bollywood film companies to launch DDoS attacks on Internet sites that share unauthorized pirated copies of Indian films.
Girish Kumar, managing director of the company Aiplex Software, said his clients are hired to search the web sites offering pirated downloads of films that violate the rights of distribution of their owners.
Airplex follows a series of steps to stop this illegal activity: "When we find a website that provides a link or download, we contacted the server hosters I do notice the illegal activity. They notify the site owner. If the site ignores us, it can suspend or disable. "
About 95% of the time this is enough for web site owners to withdraw the content. But Kumar said that between 20% and 25% of the Torrent sites ignore this warning.
"In those cases, flood the site with hundreds of thousands of applications, causing an error in the database and a denial of service, as each server has a capacity of bandwidth set" . The company does not warn the sites launch a denial of service (DDoS) to their servers do not comply with the law.
If the denial of service attack is not enough for owners to withdraw the pirate movie, the company resorted to more drastic measures: "Sometimes we have to go a step further and attack the site and destroy the information to prevent the film continues to circulate. "
Kumar said Airplex works with more than 30 companies from Bollywood and gets most of its profits by controlling the piracy of Indian films. In some countries, DDoS attacks are illegal, so the control method has Airplex piracy caused controversy around the world.
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