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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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Little known fact about Middle Earth: The Hobbits had a very sophisticated
computer network! It was a Tolkien Ring...
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday July 29 2014, @02:45PM
The description is a bit vague but it sounds like the Sunblock company flags sites by adding them to a list. Advertisers then use that list to determine what they display. The London Police are using Sunblock lists to determined if a site is served their banner instead of legitimate advertising. So this system is not intercepting anything. The advertising company is blocking the site using a 3rd party list.