[FYI] Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5194341.html?tag=macintouch
Hollywood is poised to up the ante in its war against file swappers, with new
technology that could make it easier to remove suspected pirates from campus
networks.
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. For example, universities using
ACNS could instantly send notices of copyright infringement to students by
e-mail and restrict their network access until they have removed the file.
Though not specifically ACNS, a similar system is set to go live Monday at the
University of California at Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest
universities with 37,500 students.
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.
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