Of all our public institutions, libraries and librarians have a special obligation to protect the public trust. A source of knowledge and entertainment, enlightenment and the new media, libraries have to protect their facilities and their patrons from the many negative effects of P2P network program use. These include the risk of civil and criminal lawsuits from using libraries to illegally transfer files and steal copyright protected material, overwhelming limited bandwidth capacity, shutting systems down for legitimate use, incapacitating systems due to viruses, and exposing library users to pervasive P2P pornography.

Libraries have taken measures (firewalls, filters, traffic shaping programs, ect.) to protect their institutions from certain types of content and risk. Unfortunately, these measures have no effect on illegal P2P traffic. And until now, there hasn’t been anything a library could effectively do.

Today, there is a solution. Today, SafeMedia Corporation brings you Clouseau™…technology designed specifically to eradicate illegal P2P file-sharing from systems exactly like those found in libraries throughout the USA.

Clouseau™ traps and destroys 100% of all illegal transmissions, making illegal downloading impossible. This eliminates the risk of civil and/or criminal liability for aiding and abetting illegal activity on library networks, and eliminates the risk of any P2P-borne infection. By prohibiting and eliminating illegal network uses, the implementation of Clouseau™ compels the use of legal distribution sources, thus protecting system integrity.

By eliminating illegal traffic, Clouseau™ reduces total net traffic, thereby increasing system effective capacity, and overall extending the library’s system useful life and ROI.

Importantly, there is never a question of censorship or restricting free speech. The advanced features of Clouseau™ are content blind, and only discriminate between legal and illegal.

Eliminating Internet piracy within your library requires only the implementation of Clouseau™.