New on-line piracy reports will help content providers

NEW YORK – A new piracy monitoring system called ‘Torrent Tracker Reports’ promises to find out what TV content is most popular on-line, which in turn will allow traditional content providers to maximize value for their content.Launched by New York-based Jumpwire Media, the reports are created with data from peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent, coupled with analysis from its research team. The results are digital piracy reports which the company said can be used to better assess the value and demand of particular content around the world.“Most television distribution companies see piracy as a loss instead of a gain, but we feel that...