Audible Magic Press Release
Audible Magic and Palisade Systems Partner to Filter Illegal P2P File Transfers
New Appliances Will Instantaneously Identify and Eliminate Illegally Shared Songs
LOS GATOS, California — September 9, 2003 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and identification services, announced today it has partnered with Palisade Systems, a developer of network management and security solutions. The two companies will cross-license their technologies and work jointly to develop the first network appliances that identify copyrighted works “on the fly” combined with the ability to block individual trades. Both companies will develop products, with the first to come from Audible Magic in the fourth quarter of this year.
The new systems eliminate privacy issues associated with other solutions by identifying and stopping illegal file trades in real-time, without any requirement for individual users to be identified. In addition, files authorized for sharing by the content owner can be freely transferred via the P2P networks. The two companies anticipate particularly strong appeal within the university market, where specific illegal file trades can be blocked, while the legitimate use of, and research into, other P2P applications can continue.
The new appliances will also provide network administrators with the ability to quantify and document infringement problems on their networks rather than relying upon violation notifications from the recording industry. This addresses concerns of institutions seeking an independent source to verify potential copyright violations.
“We are extremely pleased to be working with Palisade,” said Vance Ikezoye, founder and CEO of Audible Magic. “The combination of our technologies and systems provides the first capability for protecting the rights of content owners, and respecting the rights of individual content consumers.”
The partnership combines two industry-hardened solutions. Palisade Systems’ award-winning Packet Hound appliance is used for network application monitoring and management by hundreds of organizations worldwide. Audible Magic’s patented ID solutions, which combine audio fingerprinting and a reference database of nearly four million songs, are integrated in the company’s RepliCheck product, the de facto standard anti-piracy solution in the CD duplication industry.
The appliances will provide a number of technical advantages for IT administrators struggling with the bandwidth consumption and legal concerns associated with P2P applications:
- They integrate seamlessly in any network running TCP/IP, regardless of operating systems, machines, or appliances, to make that network “content intelligent” with various types of content. Audible Magic’s database of copyrighted works has already moved beyond songs to include over 10,000 software titles.
- It’s a “pass-by” solution that inspects network traffic as it flows by, contributing no overhead to the network. This compares to pass-through solutions that route traffic through the appliance and can degrade system performance.
- The appliance is transparent, very secure, and virtually impossible to identify, locate, circumvent, or attack.
“The technology of Audible Magic brings a powerful extension to PacketHound’s ability to manage P2P at the application and packet level,” said Eric Schnack, COO of Palisade Systems. “The appliances will provide responsible and practical options without crossing philosophical and moral boundaries. The solution will be able to help not only universities, but also any business concerned about the ramifications of illegal file sharing.”
About Palisade Systems,Inc
Palisade Systems, Inc. helps organizations manage and protect critical network assets against a variety of threats from benign utilization issues to malicious attacks. The company’s appliances offer easy-to-implement, proactive approaches to filter Internet and application access, control network level access to critical systems, and provide “decoy” style intrusion detection. First introduced in 2000, PacketHound has since been recognized with the R&D 100 award and the eSchool News Readers Choice Award. Since its founding in 1996, the company’s products have been installed in hundreds of businesses, schools, and universities in North America, Europe, and Australia.
Please contact Palisade at 2625 N. Loop Dr. Ste. 2120 Ames, IA, 50010, USA, Phone 515-296-6500, Fax 515-296-5335, www.palisadesys.com or sales@palisadesys.com.
About Audible Magic, Inc.
Audible Magic Corporation provides content management and anti-piracy services to the media and entertainment industries as well as to business, governmental, and educational institutions. The company's offerings utilize patented content identification technologies and an extensive reference database of audio and video content. Its digital technology and services are designed to monitor, track, manage, filter, and monetize digital content in all of its forms. The company has been active providing solutions for the Web 2.0 user-generated content video sharing sites.
Audible Magic has long-term relationships with the major record labels that have registered their content in the company’s database that holds one of the largest collections of copyrighted digital song recording fingerprints in the world. Corporate partners include EMI Recorded Music, Palisade Systems, Sony/BMG Music, Universal Music Group, V2 Music, Warner Music Group, and EMI Recorded Music. Audible Magic’s technology is also employed by Grouper, iMesh and PlayLouder MSP music service. Other major market customers include over 70 educational institutions and the media manufacturing industry. Audible Magic’s products include the CopySense P2P Plug-In; CopySense Network Appliance, and RepliCheck.
The Company was founded in 1999, and it operates from offices in Los Gatos, Los Angeles, and Berkeley, California.
For more information, visit Audible Magic’s website at www.audiblemagic.com.
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