WHO NEEDS PROTECTION FROM ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING?

Any business that holds or produces electronic material runs the risk of having their data illegally downloaded. There is a massive global growth in illegal downloading with many sources for the data widely accessible.

Illegal downloads from peer-to-peer (P2P) networks

Illegal downloads from newsgroups

Email and FTP many others

IDENTIFYING AND DETECTING ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS

If you cannot detect whether copyrighted material is being transmitted, you cannot block it. It is becoming increasingly difficult to detect illegal downloads, or to detect whether or not copyrighted material is being distributed.

Most methods of identifying copyright material being transmitted involve:

• Looking at the actual data itself
• Comparing the data to a known but limited list of data files
• Analysing the type of computer application being used to transmit the data
• Identifying the application's type of traffic by deep packet inspection

CURRENT COMMON PROBLEMS IN PREVENTING ONLINE PIRACY

New copyrighted material is released every day, as are new PC applications. Existing remedies are slow, expensive and have proved largely ineffective because copyright detectors have to keep current with new and evolving material.

Detectors simply looking at the computer application sending the data, do not address the issue of whether or not copyright material is actually being distributed. A computer application might be transmitting non-copyrighted or even legitimate copyrighted material. e.g. a legally purchased music album or video may be downloaded from an online music retailer, or television programmes might be downloaded from broadcasters such as the BBC or Sky.

Detection units that analyse the content of the data or the computer application being used, have a problem in scalability. To apply such detectors to massive, high capacity networks such as those found in major telecommunications providers, the computational power of the detection units makes them difficult to deploy and very expensive.

Many computer applications that transmit copyright material are evolving and have already started to encrypt the content, which makes detection of the material, by inspecting the data, difficult or even impossible.

CopyKnight have solved these problems by making a step change in copyright material detection. Its technology is not targeted at any particular protocol, it is targeted directly against the copyrighted material, so that transmission can be detected idependent of transmission method. CopyKnights products are designed for an ISP and corporate environment and are scalable and cost effective.

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