I am trying to notify Mr. Newton, and anyone being prosecuted for file sharing in California, that the Calfiornia District Attorneys Assocation is accepting money from the RIAA. Please check their web site , then click to 2004 conference, then scroll to end of page to see who is paying for their banquet dinner, the big, expensive event.

Accepting this gift may mean they can not prosecute, because of conflict of interest. Need to get the word out to all charged with file sharing in Calif.

http://www.cdaa.org

Anyway, thanks for the input.

The Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS) is a standard XML format so that when a copyright holder sends email notices of copyright infringement to an ISP or university, that ISP or university could automatically process that notice into a database or otherwise follow whatever their procedures are for responding to notices. Basically, this lets a script replace an overworked human being with a dull job, which is what scripts are for.

Audible Magic’s CopySense is a technology that fingerprints files being transferred and matches the fingerprints against a list of known copyrighted material, blocking transfer of copyrighted material. Audible Magic’s technology is widely used already (i.e. anyone can see it in action fairly easily by calling Audible Magic’s sales people, who I am sure would be delighted at the opportunity to do a demo). The only new thing in the p2p demo is that the technology is integrated into a p2p client so that it blocks the download of copyrighted material. Whether or not you think that Audible Magic’s fingerprinting works well, the demonstration makes the point that it’s entirely possible for p2p file sharing networks to attempt to control their contents.