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The City of London Police have started putting banner ads over sites they believe are offering copyright infringing content.
The City of London police has started placing banner advertisements on websites believed to be offering pirated content illegally.
The messages, which will appear instead of paid-for ads, will ask users to close their web browsers.
The move comes as part of a continuing effort to stop piracy sites from earning money through advertising.
Police said the ads would make it harder for piracy site owners to make their pages look authentic.
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(Score: 2) by Alfred on Tuesday July 29 2014, @02:09PM
Now for the trade-off:
You should allow ads on those sites so the ad revenue goes to the site :-)
-OR-
You should block ads on account that the cops may be tracking you :-(
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 29 2014, @02:40PM
Of course as a law-abiding citizen you should not support pirates, but fight them. That is, cut their revenue by blocking their ads, and at the same time cause them bandwidth cost by downloading all their material. ;-)