In an attempt to get itself free cash from the US taxpayer a company (Safemedia) has now the dubious honour of being singled out by the EFF for its deceptive and false claims.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005189.phpA few years ago, EFF debunked an anti-P2P packet filtering technology sold by Audible Magic. Twice. The notion that universities can just buy a piece of software to end file sharing on their networks forever is false. But it keeps coming back.
The latest product of this sort is from a company called SafeMedia. Its website is covered in dramatic marketing newspeak and includes a weird appeal to the Congress to install its software in "every public and private institution receiving Federal funds".
Filtering tools merely drive the development of sharing tools that are resistant to monitoring (including small networks like Allpeers, and encrypted versions of BitTorrent and eMule), and drive students to start using them. They don't get us any closer to a real solution that gets artists paid while letting fans continue to share music. Universities are already being forced to expend significant resources doing the RIAA's dirty work, and they should think very carefully before implementing expensive tools like SafeMedia's.
I,m suprised these companies can make such outragous claims without qualifying their statements, stark reality seems to have parted company with wishful thinking, its called deceptive/fraudulant advertising in most countries.
