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Leading Florida Academic Institution Installs SafeMedia’s Network Management Applianceto PreventIllegalPeer to Peer (P2P) File Sharing.

"“Pine CrestSchool is the perfect example of an educational institution that chose to protect their students and faculty from the risks associated with P2P digital piracy while avoiding RIAA and MPAA legal action.“ Safwat Fahmy SafeMedia Founder and CEO.

Boca Raton, FL - Pine Crest School and SafeMedia announced today that Pine Crest has purchased and installed SafeMedia’s“Clouseau”™network management appliance. Clouseau™ is designed to monitor, detect, intercept, capture and drop all illegal file sharing from certainP2P networks, encrypted or non-encrypted, without invading users’ privacy.

“Clouseau™ will provide Pine Crest protection from the dangers associated with ‘illegal’ digital file sharing, while enforcing the school’s objectivesand policies ofdisallowing thedownloading of copyrighted digital content, which is illegal,” said Eric Olender, Director of Technology Operations at Pine Crest School.

“Deploying Clouseau™ will protect the school’s network and studentsfrom the risks from P2P applications,some of which maylure our students into inadvertently sharing confidential content,whilestopping the illegal distribution of copyrighted digital files. Our students and their families can feel safewith the knowledge that Pine Crest is taking steps to further secure its network, and not expose the students and families to RIAA and MPAA legal action and settlement costs,” said Eric Olender. “Clouseau™ maintains its intelligence remotely every 3 hours and requires no administrative support from my team.”

“P2P traffic was a concern for Pine Crest even though we have a firewall in place,” Eric Olender continued. “P2P networks are tricky; they use standard web ports and encryptionwhich cannot be captured by firewalls. We tested other available devices and concluded thatClouseau™was the only network appliance capable of effectively, economically, and accuratelypreventing illegal P2P digital file sharing,”said Olender.

“The scalability and flexibility of Clouseau offers the only available solution for universities and schools to immediately deploy and prevent all illegal file sharing on their networks,” said Safwat Fahmy, SafeMedia CEO. “Pine Crest is a good example of a prudent school that chose to protect its students and staff from themoral, ethical and legal challenges of copyright infringement created by certain P2P networks. Clouseau is a portable and scalable solution that could easily and immediately be deployed athomes, corporations, ISPs,and Government agencies,” said Fahmy.

About Pine Crest School:

Pine Crest School isa recognized leader providing unsurpassed academic preparation and college preparatory for the past 74 years.Pine Crest School is an independentPK-12 School with an enrollment of 2500 students on two campuses located in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, Florida. Pine Crest makes extensive use of technology in fulfilling its mission of academic excellence, character, and leadership development. Students are required to have laptop computers starting in the sixth gradeand use them throughout the school’s extensive wireless network.

For more information about Pine Crest School, please contact:
Eric Olender at 954-492-4100
www.pinecrest.edu

About SafeMedia Corporation
SafeMedia is a global technology leader that has developed patented, paradigm changing technology that is portable and scalable designed to monitor, detect, intercept, capture and drop all illegal sharing of copyrighted digital files from P2P networks, encrypted or non-encrypted, without any measurable latency on the network. SafeMedia's technology is the only technology available NOW, to immediately stop all digital copyright infringement from P2P networks.

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