SafeMedia has developed the world’s first and only truly effective Internet Piracy Prevention (IPP) solutions. These technologies alone never invades user privacy, prohibits all illegal P2P traffic, while allowing the passage of legal BitTorrent P2P and all other Internet transmissions. They enable all global copyrighted content industries to use the Internet for the first time as a safe, viable mass distribution channel.

There is no other technology that will both never violate user privacy and consistently block illegal P2P protocols and functionality, and there is no other technology that makes the Internet a legitimate business model for the mass distribution of digital music, movies, television, and software.

Achieving this breakthrough combination of never invading user privacy and illegal P2P traffic prohibition required a new paradigm in system architecture encapsulating the total functionality of many advanced technologies on a chip, and deploying multi/hyper processing architecture created specifically for network operations, resulting in far higher, scalable processing capacity than the network bandwidth it services. These breakthrough core technologies address and solve every single weakness inherent in all previous attempts.

The technologies developed by SafeMedia Corporation embody the following:

1. Adaptive fingerprinting and DNA markers: The SafeMedia IPP library of all P2P clients and protocols is the world’s largest and most current library of fingerprints and DNA markers and is updated every 3 hours. The technology looks for fingerprints and DNA markers in outgoing and incoming packets and, depending upon identity strength, employs three levels of analysis. In the few cases where fingerprints alone are insufficient, it actually combines DNA marker evidence from multiple packets using stored evidence history.
   
   
2. Adaptive network patterns: Not all protocols can easily be identified with a single set of packets. As such, the technology monitors packet flows and adapt its filtering technique on the basis of what it has already seen and what it sees now. This extensible system utilizes a technique called experience libraries (see the following). It looks for patterns of certain identifiable characteristics of network events and determines if the packets are legal or illegal. Illegal packets are dropped and legal packets continue on their way.
   
   
3. Experience libraries: P2P clients and protocols are modified and improved on a continuous basis. The process of adapting to these changes and being constantly dynamically updated with the latest knowledge of such clients/protocols is the responsibility of the experience libraries. SafeMedia’s experience libraries are knowledge-based and created from the actual operations of the clients and include specific fingerprints/DNA markers in addition to the adaptive network patterns.
   
   
4. Remote update and self-healing: All maintenance and defense actions-updates, integrity checks, sanity validations, system housekeeping, and self-defense are remotely performed through SafeMedia’s (Akamaized) servers with no delay in network operation.
   
   

SafeMedia developed two implementations for its core technologies.

Clouseau™ is the world’s first and only truly effective Internet Piracy Prevention (IPP) solution. Clouseau alone never invades user privacy, prohibits all illegal P2P traffic, while allowing the passage of legal Bit Torrent P2P and all other Internet transmissions. Clouseau is a network appliance implemented in any subnet.