{"id":209742,"date":"2017-05-08T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=209742"},"modified":"2017-05-08T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:09:29","slug":"microsoft-patents-tech-to-block-pirated-content-being-shared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/209742-microsoft-patents-tech-to-block-pirated-content-being-shared.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft patents tech to block pirated content being shared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has obtained a patent to &#8220;block objectionable content&#8221; from being shared online, including that which infringes on copyrights, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/microsoft-patents-technology-to-block-pirated-content-track-repeat-offenders-170505\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TorrentFreak<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The patent also includes the ability to identify repeat offenders who share protected files.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that it is not only torrent sites where pirated content can be shared, with platforms like Facebook, Google Drive, and Microsoft&#8217;s OneDrive open to abuse.<\/p>\n<p>If pirated content is shared via a cloud storage product, the company hosting the product cannot always &#8220;simply delete&#8221; the content.<\/p>\n<p>The patent is titled &#8220;Disabling prohibited content and identifying repeat offenders in service provider storage systems&#8221;, and looks to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The patent allows Microsoft to identify and flag repeat offenders who share objectionable content, which may result in account privileges being suspended or terminated.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/209690-debian-8-8-released.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Debian 8.8 released<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has obtained a patent to &#8220;block objectionable content&#8221; from being shared online, including that which infringes on copyrights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,125],"class_list":["post-209742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-piracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209744,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209742\/revisions\/209744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}