Peer-to-Peer Network Security

By John Wagley

SecurityManagement.com/ News -  The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is sending a growing flurry of takedown notices to peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and online auction sites in an effort to fight piracy, according to a new BSA report. 

BSA, consisting of a host of software developers, says 41 percent of the software used on personal computers worldwide is illegitimate, resulting in about $53 billion in industry losses.

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Inside Higher Education News – October 20, 2008

Colleges have been asserting for months — in an effort to persuade Congress not to impose new requirements on them to fight illegal file sharing — that they‟re spending big bucks to monitor, prevent and discipline online behavior that could run afoul of copyright law. But lawmakers ignored their pleas and added several new mandates to the Higher Education Act in August.

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