According to an article in the Independent Florida Alligator. The ICARUS system which has caught 1,520 students using file sharing programs is to be released this spring.
Other universities, ISPs and businesses have expressed interest in it with the article saying,”Already 110 universities have asked about it, along with eight major Internet service providers and 23 private companies and corporations, Bird said.”
Of the p2p programs that people have been caught the article says,”…students overwhelmingly use Kazaa. Only two people ICARUS caught were using Earth Station Five.”
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