Six Tech Companies to Demonstrate Content Distribution and Filtering Technology
Los Angeles – - Beginning on Tuesday, March 21 in Las Vegas, the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) will host a technology booth at TelecomNEXT, featuring several companies who will display some of the latest online distribution platforms and filtering tools which could assist the telecommunications industry and play an important role in the emerging legitimate digital content distribution markets. This is the first time that the MPAA has had a presence at this event which is important in bringing business and technology of communications and entertainment together.
Representatives from Audible Magic, BitTorrent Inc., CacheLogic, Peer Impact, Red Swoosh and Thomson Content Security will be on hand to demonstrate methods their companies have developed to facilitate legal online movie distribution and to protect copyrights in a digital environment.
“TelecomNEXT is a significant event for companies who want to see some of the latest in business and technology of communications and entertainment,” said MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman. “We are excited about being included in TelecomNEXT and feel honored to host these fine companies who are representative of all those working on more ways to legally bring our movies to consumers and developing innovative solutions for protecting copyrights. By giving these innovators an opportunity to demonstrate their advances, we hope to encourage them and others to continue their important work.”
As part of the MPAA’s core mission, it seeks to provide leadership for its companies in the digital media transition. MPAA has been working on identifying tools that can facilitate the legal online distribution of digital content. MPAA does not endorse any particular technologies but is proud to spotlight the following six companies that will be present at the MPAA booth as examples of these types of tools. Those companies have provided the following descriptions of their services:
* Audible Magic provides content management and anti-piracy services to the media and entertainment industries, as well as governmental and educational institutions. The company’s offerings utilize patented digital fingerprinting technologies and an extensive reference database of copyrighted content. Its digital technology is designed to monitor, track, manage, and in some cases filter copyrighted multimedia content in all of its forms, including radio and TV analog broadcasts, Internet and satellite streams, physical media files, as well as P2P and private network file transfers. Audible Magic has agreements with UMG (Universal Music Group), Sony Music, and is negotiating with many of the studios.
* BitTorrent Inc. is the developer of the world’s leading open-source file-sharing protocol by the same name, specifically created to overcome the obstacles of transferring large files over the Internet. BitTorrent Inc. has completed a deal to filter illegal MPAA content out of its website and is negotiating content distribution deals with the studios. BitTorrent Inc. recently announced a deal with the UK’s largest cable company to launch a technical trial to evaluate ultra high-speed, legal video downloads in the UK. The trial download service will feature a large variety of licensed video content including popular movies, music videos and television programs.
* CacheLogic provides a suite of complementary products that deliver traffic management and network intelligence solutions to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and telecommunications sectors. CacheLogic’s core products provide carrier-grade solutions that enable ISPs to achieve considerable cost savings through the intelligent management of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic across their networks. CacheLogic’s technology can be configured to accelerate the delivery of legitimate P2P content and dramatically reduce download times, which enables ISPs to make an important contribution to the value chain of this revolutionary delivery mechanism.
* Peer Impact is a new online digital content distribution network that provides legal peer-to-peer file sharing services for its members. Its technology offers a secure online space to purchase and share movies, music and video games while ensuring content owners and propriety rights holders alike are paid appropriately. Peer Impact has a deal with NBC Universal and is in discussions with other studios.
* Red Swoosh, Inc. offers P2P content delivery services for high-performance, low-cost distribution of media over the Internet. By securely and safely utilizing private P2P Grids, Red Swoosh customers are able to achieve unlimited video delivery at a fixed cost while significantly increasing the performance of their streaming media and downloads. With the deployment of Red Swoosh’s innovative services, content providers have saved millions of dollars in infrastructure costs while vastly improving the economic viability of their online initiatives. Red Swoosh distributes content for many of the world’s largest media companies and hundreds of smaller content owners on the Net.
* Thomson Content Security provides solutions to the media and entertainment industries, comprehensively addressing the need to mitigate the risk of illegal content redistribution. Thomson offers advanced solutions to protect digital rights, build secure content delivery networks and fight against content piracy. The Group makes its security technologies available via a combination of off-the-shelf products for the movie, broadcast and telecom industries, and OEM licensing.
About TelecomNEXT
TelecomNEXT is the only place where the business and technology of communications and entertainment meet. Recognizing the dramatic changes in today’s integrated communications market, the TelecomNEXT exhibit floor and conference program fully reflect the industry’s continuing evolution and will bring together the most dynamic, talented and innovative players of the digital age.
About the MPAA
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) serves as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries from its offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Its members include: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios, LLP; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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pretty soon the mpaa will start planting fake media files out in bittorrent and installing rootkits to sell you their content. watch.
pretty soon the mpaa will start planting fake media files out in bittorrent and installing rootkits to sell you their content. watch.
i could have swore that fake files are already out and rootkits are being made.
also i say we sould just go raid the mpaa head building and make an angry mob with 9 million of the swappers. we out number them by millions can u imagine we all stood out infront the of the mpaa
I said that a while ago we the world of P2P needs to slaughter the industry head honchos