DamnedIfIknow used our news submit to tell us “Guess it won”t be long before it gets down to the elementary/grade school level.All P2P software = BAD! BAD! BAD!”
It seems that school administrators can’t control the children and have turned to Audible Magic to do the babysitting for them. The schools say that with as many as 1400 kids some of which are toting laptops, that there is some funny business going on the servers around lunchtime.
height=70 alt="" hspace=18 src="http://www.cdfreaks.com/contentimages/newsimages/1119911838" width=70 align=right border=0>Technology aimed at identifying and blocking copyrighted songs as they”re being traded on file-swapping networks is beginning to move into high schools. Filtering technology from Audible Magic has been installed at several high schools around the country, most recently at private Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, Calif., and a technical high school in Cape Cod, Mass., the company said. The song-blocking tools have largely been used by universities and Internet service providers. Cary and his counterpart at the Cape Cod Regional Technical High School each said the ability to block individual songs, instead of all file-swapping traffic, was responsible for their decision to buy Audible Magic”s technology.However, neither has turned on that individual song-filtering mode, electing instead for the broader ability to block file-swapping traffic altogether. |
Audible Magic’s software is already consideered controversial, both over whether it can accurately stop copyrighted song trading on P2P networks such as Kazaa or eDonkey, and regarding privacy. For the rest of the story at C|net, follow this link. Thanks for the submittal, DamnedIfIknow.
Source: C|Net
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