Copyright Detection Solutions

[Han Lievens <han.lievens () MAIL CUNY EDU>]

Hey all,

Some people at the Security Conference mentioned a layer-7 appliance
that talks to RIAA and/or other organizations to compare signatures of
known released and pre-release copyrighted material and send RST to
stop the transfer.

This sounds like a very heavy and awkward solution.  Also, encrypted
P2P traffic is on the rise.

Does anyone know if this solution has been seriously looked at?
What is the future of "copyright-aware" P2P clients and/or protocols?

Thanks,
Han.

Han Lievens, CISSP
Information Security Engineer
The City University of New York
555 West 57th St., 16th Floor
New York, NY 10019
(212)541-0353