Internet piracy is apparently given a higher priority by Yahoo than protecting children online, it emerges this week, as the Internet portal has reportedly removed 13 chatrooms found to be trading encryption techniques, while ignoring hundreds of pedophile groups that it was alerted to six months ago.
More than £200m (roughly $300 million) a year in Europe alone is lost to the illegal activities of media pirates. |
The anonymity of the Internet makes it a popular medium for the sale of illegal software and the sharing of encryption techniques with other underground pirates.
"This is a crime--it will hurt broadcasters as well as paying customers, who will ultimately have to pay more for the service due to piracy," said Palmer.
With the commercial interests of large companies at stake, Irdeto Access claims Yahoo responded quickly to their request for the offending chatrooms to be removed.
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Source: ZDnet.com
