Re: Copyright Detection Solutions

[Doug Markiewicz <dmarkiew+educause () ANDREW CMU EDU>]

Audible Magic does fingerprinting of copyrighted material and uses RST packets as part of their solution.  This could be the 
solution you're thinking of.

The Common Solutions Group had a workshop where Audible Magic, Red Lambda and SafeMedia were invited to discuss their 
technologies.  Observations are posted on their website (link below).

http://www.stonesoup.org/docs/copyright-technology.pdf



Han Lievens wrote:
> 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
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