Submission + - Anti-Piracy Chief Patents "Pay Up or Disconnect" Scheme (torrentfreak.com)
“The present disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program that may mine a data stream of infringement data over a period of time, process the mined data to find correlations in the data, and identify specific sets of IP addresses and ports associated with acts of copyright infringement,” it reads.
I guess next the Mafia will be patenting the protection scheme...