[opendtv] Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 17:11:22 -0400
Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Story last modified April 19, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT
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, CNET News.com has learned.
Movie studios, record labels and technology companies have been
testing the system for months, according to sources familiar with the
project.
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.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1027-5194341.html
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