Company tells government
A TECH OUTFIT has promised a the US House Committee on Science and Technology that if it forces Universities to buy its software it can eliminate P2P.
SafeMedia told a hearing on "The Role of Technology in Reducing Illegal File-sharing: A University Perspective" that colleges and universities have been reluctant to adopt effective policies to deal with illegal file-sharing
He said that his outfit's global "P2P Disaggregator"(P2PD), technology can destroy what he calls "contaminated P2P networks" by draining the illegal content of those networks. It detects and prohibit illegal P2P traffic while allowing the passage of legal P2P such as BitTorrent. It is plugged in as a subnet as a bridge and it goes to work without altering their network topology."
He claimed that the system could even stop encrypted traffic, see if it is legal or not, and reject or allow it as appropriate. We are not sure how that would work.
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