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The September 20th , 2007 forum co-hosted by the MPAA and the University of California System
is the first ever workshop with members of the university community, technology
companies, online service providers and entertainment executives to discuss
opportunities, challenges and solutions to providing a new world of choice
in online entertainment.
Universal City, CA - Boca Raton, Florida – Counterfeiting and Global piracy, especially Internet
piracy is costing America billions of dollars in lost wages, taxes and goods,
one more reason SafeMedia Corporation believes the MPAA, RIAA, government
agencies, ISP’s and the education community should do more to prevent it.
SafeMedia contends this group should work on finding viable technical solutions
that satisfies the needs of all the stake holders wanting to secure the Internet
and cut out Internet Piracy.
The
workshop is designed to engage university leaders, entertainment executives,
artists, consumers, technology companies and experts in conversations about
the Internet and Entertainment. It will explore areas where vision,
strategic interests and expertise converge to surface opportunities for collaboration.
“Music and movie piracy costs the
SafeMedia technology can never be circumvented via encryption,
compression or any other method. Our solution eliminates the dangers of identity
theft, viruses, malware, and spyware to your network from contaminated P2P
networks.
Top
Educational CIO and IT leaders, senior executives representing digital content
owners, industry experts, and Internet Service Providers and solution providers
will address topics including:
An
Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) report, released last month, reveals
global music piracy robs the
“That’s
only the tip of the iceberg,” said CEO & Chairman, Safwat Fahmy, SafeMedia
Corp. “Our solutions utilize advanced technologies such as:
Adaptive Fingerprinting and DNA markers; Adaptive network patterns;
Intelligent libraries; Remote update and Self-healing to effectively drop
all contaminated P2P traffic with no invasion of user privacy,” said Fahmy.
“Universities, Schools, MPAA, RIAA and other organizations all know about
this affordable technology.”
According
to published reports, Internet providers are scrambling in billion dollar
battles with P2P networks offering illegal downloads of copyright materials.
LAEDC in a study for the MPAA reported that the music industry lost $2 billion
in piracy last year, while movie piracy cost $6.1 billion in lost annual revenue.
The film and television studios are reportedly spending more than $100
million per year in efforts to stop illegal content distribution.
“Many ISPs
continue to fight P2P content on their networks, and they face constantly
changing technical battles and customer dissatisfaction.
Whether an ISP chooses to fight or embrace P2P will be a major factor
in restoring the value of digital copyrighted material on the Internet and
saving high-speed bandwidth in the future,” said Safwat Fahmy. “We have developed
business solutions combining P2P Disaggregator technology (P2PD) and a Digital
Internet Distribution Solution (DIDS) that prevents contaminated P2P networks
from indiscriminately being accessed by users’ computers, and saving bandwidth
at the same time, our
solution focuses on achieving one purchase
equals one copy on the Internet,” he explained.
“P2PD is
fully effective at forensically discriminating between contaminated and non-contaminated
P2P traffic,” said Giordano. “There are no false positives whether encrypted
or not: P2PD operates at network speed with little or no latency. The purpose
of P2PD technology is not to shut down P2P networks or inhibit P2P technology.
SafeMedia allows traffic from non contaminated P2P to pass to its destination-
we only drop traffic to and from contaminated P2P networks.”
[Editors note: For media interviews
with SafeMedia contact George McQuade, MAYO Communications, 818-340-5300
or 818-618-9229. For more information about SafeMedia Corporation product
line visit www.SafeMedia.com or call
561-989-1934.]