[FYI] Coming soon: Hollywood controls your computer

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

<http://ericcarlson.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_ericcarlson_archive.html# 
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Coming soon: Hollywood controls your computer 

Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers - "Known as the 
Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS), the technology promises to 
make copyright enforcement easier on peer-to-peer networks, saving 
schools and Internet service providers (ISPs) time and money. ACNS 
allows them to automatically restrict or cut off Internet access for 
alleged infringers on notice from a record label or movie studio. ... 
'ACNS is an open-source, royalty-free system that universities, ISPs, 
or anyone that handles large volumes of copyright notices can 
implement on their network to increase the efficiency and reduce the 
costs of responding to the notices,' according to a technical 
summary. ... ACNS was jointly designed by Vivendi Universal 
Entertainment and Universal Music Group in response to an open call 
for technical solutions to peer-to-peer piracy. The two groups are 
still talking to universities, ISPs and technology companies about 
offering it as a pilot program. They have also applied for a patent 
on the piracy notice and prevention tool."
// posted by Eric @ 9:18 AM   [ link to this entry ]




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