[FYI] Coming soon: Hollywood controls your computer
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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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