Created by software firm Audible Magic, the song-filtering software is backed strongly by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The software has also triggered interest in Washington, D.C., and skepticism in the peer-to-peer world and among some students and universities.
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“It’s the kind of thing we hear from universities or customers that act more as an ISP,” said Doug Jacobson, Palisade’s founder and chief technology officer. “They want to take the position of not filtering out all peer-to-peer (traffic)–stopping copyrighted works but not the other content.”
