Anti-piracy group says companies should mimic ransomware techniques to fight alleged pirates

Anti-piracy group says companies should mimic ransomware techniques to fight alleged pirates:
A prominent anti-piracy commission, whose members include former Utah governor Jon Huntsman and former U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, has released a new report making the case that copyright holders should start deploying software capable of locking down the computers of alleged pirates. The new report from the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property says that copyright holders should be allowed to take more assertive action against intellectual property thieves, including developing software that will "allow only authorized users to open files containing valuable information" and will potentially lock down any unauthorized computer that tries to access the file.

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