Jamaican firm to patent online anti-piracy software

Kariblink Digital, a local based web firm aims to patent software it has already developed to ‘Whiplash’ piracy by instantly shutting down illegal online rebroadcasters. The firm currently awaits a response from the international copyright body having already paid the requisite fees. The development of the software is a rare defense against piracy by the local copyright sector valued at some five per cent of the nation’s output. The software arose out of Kariblink’s need to plug lost revenues from the illegal rebroadcast of its live feeds for Sting. More