The University of Florida, one of the first American educational institutions to become an active RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) enforcement agency, has been praised by RIAA president Cary Sherman.

Sherman says ICARUS - the U of F’s in-house anti-p2p application - is an "impressive" home-grown solution.

Home-grown it is, but it’s spreading its wings - like a plague.

Earlier in the year the RIAA warned administrators they were in line for serious RIAA retribution if they didn’t shape up. They responded with ICARUS which shuts down network access if it detects anything resembling p2p activity.

Already 110 universities have asked about it, along with eight major Internet service providers and 23 private companies and corporations, says Alligator Online here.

Short for short for Integrated Control Application, ICARUS was developed by UofF programmers

The RIAA likes it, and the UofF is apparently extremely proud of it, but universities should realize their computer networks are to serve students and "not to be an enforcement arm of the recording industry," Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney for the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation, is quoted in an Associated Press report here.

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