"Movie studios, record labels and technology companies have been testing the system for months, according to sources familiar with the project.

Known as the Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS), the technology promises to make copyright enforcement easier on peer-to-peer networks, saving schools and Internet service providers (ISPs) time and money. ACNS allows them to automatically restrict or cut off Internet access for alleged infringers on notice from a record label or movie studio. For example, universities using ACNS could instantly send notices of copyright infringement to students by e-mail and restrict their network access until they have removed the file.

Though not specifically ACNS, a similar system is set to go live Monday at the University of California at Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest universities with 37,500 students.

"ACNS is an open-source, royalty-free system that universities, ISPs, or anyone that handles large volumes of copyright notices can implement on their network to increase the efficiency and reduce the costs of responding to the notices," according to a technical summary."
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"ACNS allows them to automatically restrict or cut off Internet access for alleged infringers on notice from a record label or movie studio."

Guilty until proven innocent. The Anti-American Way.

ACNS allows them to automatically restrict or cut off Internet access for alleged infringers on notice from a record label or movie studio.

so.... we're guilty until proven innocent.

And they don't know the difference between what's allowed and not allowed...

How much innocence can you afford?

haha, this is going to be hilarious, especially for students that live 2-3 to a dorm room. I can only see it now, one guy file sharing and the other two screwed out of a connection on account of it. Mean while in the real world, the economy still sucks, education and gasoline prices are high, jobs are scarce, ect. pick one.

And now the Internet is a privilege. We might as well be living in China.

I don't think they have any technology to detect CD burners copying other students' CDs. LOL.

They keep trying to make their best potential customers angrier and angrier. Way to go, media giants. Keep it up.

what pisses me off is that university are going to buy into that BS. These are places of intellect and that they all fall to this nonsense. Where da hell am I going to put my kids through for a "quality" education?

So now the movie industry can say that you're sharing a file which may actually just be a fan reproduction you made for a movie class which is loosely based off of a film and get your 'net access cut off for it...Or you could have downloaded an independent film that has a comment attached to it like"Really good,reminds me of " and they'll just see that and make you remove it...

With stuff like this coming out,I think the next war won't be in another territory,but against the big businesses here.

Dammit. Having ICARUS at UF was bad enough. Now they're doing something exactly like it and sending it to all the colleges? Fuck!

A lot of Universities due to the fact that their staffs tend to be ignorant on p2p will probably embrace this unfortunately, however, I am pretty sure that ISP's wont be too keen on taking up this technology. The article says it will be less costly, I beg to differ, imagine how many cease and desist letters a single ISP will recieve daily, or weekly from the whinning child that is the RIAA. ISP's dont have to keep specific logs of anything to accomodate the RIAA, there is nothing in the law that says you have to log anything. If ISP's grow a pair and stop logging internet users, bye bye law suits and the rest of this b/s. EFF has been saying it for a while, dont log user information and thats the end of that.

One more thing, lets not forget:

107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use38
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include —

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

First... from the entire article:
"We're helping the ISP or university with policy enforcement. We're not dictating the policy, but we're saying, 'Here's a tool to help with automating the process.' We're the friends of the ISP,"

LOL I just found that one amusing myself. Real good friend they are, helping pursue cases against copyright infringers which are the ISP's or Universities own customers. The copyright infringement isn't hurting the Univerisity or the ISP, if anything its helping them.

Also from the full article:

ACNS would trigger such e-mail notifications and could automatically choke off the student's access to a peer-to-peer network, while leaving his Internet or e-mail connection untouched. Depending on the school's policy, it could put the student into a 30-minute penalty box, without access, on the first offense. The second offense could warrant a week without peer-to-peer privileges, and so forth.

Now, I'm not the most well versed individual with computers but, I was thinking... If people are kicked off of the P2P application abruptly and they had queued up a list of copyrighted files to download, wouldn't those still be queued and start to download when the open up the program after getting their "privileges" back? Sure you could disconnect the internet connection and open the program and cancel them, but how many people are going to think of that?

"Guilty until proven innocent. The Anti-American Way."

Correction

It's the communist way.

voltz15... no need for anti-communism comments really... if we were under a communism system music would ALL be free.

*communism system=communist system

You are confusing communism with totalitarianism.

scottjw: APPROVED music would be free. Unapproved music would have to come from the black market at outrageous prices, none of which the artists would see.

"Though not specifically ACNS, a similar system is set to go live Monday at the University of California at Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest universities with 37,500 students."

prepare for a severe drop in the admissions pool. Hehe.

I can see so many potential holes in this its just not funny..

I'm anxious to see how this works on the DarkNet.

So how does it find files on closed invitation only networks and private FTP connections?

Maybe they can get Jgaa to incorporate this in the next release of WarFTP.

How does it "block" ONLY kazaa when kazaa automatically seeks a new port to transmit on when it's disconnected, often defaulting to port 80 (the internet browser port).

Someone mentioned the inability of this software to stop CD burners.

It's even easier with a 256mb USB flash drive that can be gotten for $30.00 on sale. 3 or 4 of them on a dorm floor could copy a lot of music in a very short time, certainly quicker than a CD burner.

They're easier to cary around in your pocket and they write as fast as they read. As time goes on most kids will have several USB flash drives and the benefits to file swapping will become obvious.

good versions of bit torrent have similar optimization algorithms.. allowing you to set port ranges... if you set the range from 1-65535, the only way to block it would be to cut the cable.

lets not mention the new swapping programs with strong encrypted transfers.. how does this work if the NSA has problems with it.

The messed up thing about this is, again, that this was devised by hollywood, not law enforcement.

Ignore for a moment that this assumes guilt until proven innocent. That's how our system works - don't act suprised, like you just found out.

Essentially hollywood will cut off our internet access. This would be fine with me if I could take action against them for something I suspect them of doing that could harm me.


I suspect the RIAA is guilty of price fixing. As a consumer, this affects me, as I have been ripped off. All CD sales and deliveries will be halted until further notice.

I can't do anything when the illegal actions of the RIAA hurt me. They can do whatever they want if I hurt them. The thing is, everyone already KNOWS they fix prices and it still doesn't matter.

Given Hollyweird figure Oliver Stone's recent fawning over Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, somehow it seems appropriate that Tinseltown would try this latest totalitarian tack (similar as it is in tacticology to, say, China's increasing harassment of "cyber-dissidents"). Indeed, there are some Hollywood "big names" who've made public appearances wearing T-shirts glorifying Che Guevara, Castro's one-time "enforcer."

And of course, they ONLY think of devising of schemes to hurt the public. After all, their whole mentality has "collective guilt" read all over it.

"I suspect the RIAA is guilty of price fixing"

no really? there are news reports about how the RIAA companies are "raising prices" of cds.. as if its freaking oil! They act like opec and it's apparently fine with the mass media.

SuitablyTwisted: Again, that would be a repressive regime... communism isn't based on censorship or the limitations of speech. That only happens because communist governments tend to be totalitarian.