2 developments re P2P and piracy

[Dan Updegrove <updegrove () MAIL UTEXAS EDU>]

Colleagues -

> http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003022002t.htm -- Three record
> companies have asked a federal court in Australia to let their technical
> experts scan all computers at the University of Melbourne for music files,
> according to news reports. The companies are looking for evidence of
> copyright violations among students who swap digitized music files.
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985027.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed -- or months,
> the digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through
> virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming's
> network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or "Friends" episode.
> 65553f.jpg
> The technology, provided by Los Gatos, Calif., company
> <http://www.audiblemagic.com/>Audible Magic, isn't yet blocking individual
> file trades. But that's the next step. As the company begins testing its
> service with more universities, corporations and small Internet service
> providers during next few weeks and months, this peer-to-peer monitoring
> and blocking technology threatens to open the next front in the online
> piracy wars.
>
>
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The University of Texas at Austin       Fax (512) 232-9607
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