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Safemedia's CEO Tells Congress He Can Stop P2P

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the also-he-invented-the-question-mark dept.

palewook writes "Yesterday, Safwat Fahmy appeared in front of the House Science and Technology Committee. During Fahmy's testimony [PDF], he claimed Safemedia's "P2P Disaggregator" technology uses traffic-shaping systems and network-filtering systems that can destroy contaminated P2P networks. And their Clouseau product will make it impossible to send or receive any illegal P2P transmission on any installed network. However, Clouseau allows tunneling and SSH and never opens packets to determine file legality."

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  1. Clouseau? What an odd choice for names. by smellsofbikes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Kato! Ze network is rrrrringing!" *thwack*
    Clouseau was a terrible detective: any success he had was purely by chance. I can't help but wonder if this is a joke, just based on the name.

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  2. Sounds like a perfect WMND (..network destruction) by SatireWolf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How long after they conquer the internet with their traffic shaping devices until the company starts ransoming P2P media companies? What do you think will happen once they 'shape' a WoW patch and the entire world goes into catalytic convulsions pre-disposing a worldwide geek uprising?

  3. But it's not illegal per se... by jeffasselin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Peer to peer traffic isn't illegal, is it? File sharing isn't either.

    File sharing of copyrighted works is. But how does he know which P2P traffic to stop without examining the content? What stops us from just encrypting everything anyway? Or it's just going to stop all P2P traffic without caring about its legality? Wouldn't that actually be illegal?

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  4. Safe Media by Zironic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you go to the website of the people making the claim they can erase internet piracy you'll notice a few fun things.

    http://www.safemediacorp.com/Internet-Piracy/Dirty -Little-Secret.asp

    Basically it seems they are mostly targeting the mostly obsolete networks like Kaazaa, iMesh, Limewire and eMule. The fact that internet piracy has since moved on to the mostly legal bittorrent network seems to be lost on them.

    They also spout strange things like that the 2 billion songs sold on iTunes are being traded over P2P. I thought the point of iTunes was that it was heavily DRM'd?

    Read and enjoy :=)

  5. Re:Clouseau? What an odd choice for names. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ed Felten wondered the same: see is Safemedia a parody?