New tool would block illegal song swapping
L33tdawg: "File-swapping companies--some of which have contended that filtering their networks is impractical or even impossible--said they were skeptical of the claims..." -- They're certainly not the only ones! Even if it does work, it will only be a matter of time till people figure a way around it.
Network security company Palisade Systems this week will launch software that can identify and block copyrighted songs as they are being traded online.
Created by software firm Audible Magic and backed strongly by the Recording Industry Association of America, the song-filtering software has already triggered interest in Washington, D.C., along with strong skepticism in the peer-to-peer world and among some students and universities.
Palisade's new tool is the fruit of a cross-licensing deal struck early in the year, which also gave Audible Magic rights to use Palisade's network-monitoring technology to offer a similar product. Palisade executives say their university customers in particular are interested in the song-blocking capabilities.
"It's the kind of thing we hear from universities or customers that act more as an ISP," said Doug Jacobson, Palisade's founder and chief technology officer. "They want to take the position of not filtering out all peer-to-peer (traffic), stopping copyrighted works but not the other content."
