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File Repair - Free utility to repair and recover corrupted popular file-formats

Posted: 14 May 2012 09:52 PM PDT

Recover Files While backup restoration is an efficient solution to large amount of corrupted/lost data, there can be selective file-corruption due to power failures, malware infection, network interruption, system errors or application errors. File-corruption usually leads to errors like unrecognizable file-format, unreadable file, out of memory errors, low system resources error, or the most common associated application not able to access the file correctly.

Free windows utility "File Repair" scans the damaged file and tries to extract maximum clean data from it as an new usable file. File Repair supports corrupted file-recovery from Word documents (.doc, .docx, .docm, .rtf), Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xla, .xlsx), Zip or RAR archives (.zip, .rar), videos (.avi, .mp4, .mov, .flv, .wmv, .asf, .mpg), images (.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tiff, .bmp, .png, .raw), PDF documents (.pdf), Access databases (.mdb, .mde, .accdb, .accde), PowerPoint presentations (.ppt, .pps, .pptx) and music (.mp3, .wav) files.

Pirate Pay - Microsoft funded anti-piracy startup, attacks and blocks torrent file-sharing automatically

Posted: 14 May 2012 05:49 PM PDT

The battle between file-sharing mediums and anti-piracy agencies is nothing new, and yet another effective arsenal for anti-piracy advocates is ready to get deployed. Pirate Pay is an Russian start-up which is being funded by Microsoft, the technology effectively blocks BitTorrent traffic by attacking P2P swarms resulting in blocked file-sharing. The technology makes use of a cluster of servers to connect to each and every P2P client trying to download a particular torrent, and then confuses them with corrupted data making them disconnect from each other.

Recently, the technology got successfully used to prevent illegal pirated distribution of Russian movie "Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I am alive". During the usage of 30 days the Pirate Pay technology blocked 44,845 infringed copies from being downloaded illegally via torrent, even after the users found torrent download link on torrent networks.