The Internet has provided the single biggest improvement in the way commerce is transacted since the invention of the telephone. It has expanded the business of every field of commerce it touches – goods or services, business to business or business to consumer markets, capital improvements or consumables.

Only one sector has been the exception to this exponential growth, and actually has suffered because of it – the creators of digitized copyright property. While every other industry can maintain control over the distribution and disposition of its products in this age of the Internet, the creators of digitized copyright property cannot. Once that property is on the Internet, its owners lose control of it, probably forever.

Industries that rely on digitized copyright protections – music, movies, and computer software – have fielded various Internet business models. They have established corporate web sites to sell their products, and they have licensed others to sell products on their behalf. But as soon as the song, movie, or game is acquired by a purchaser, that purchaser can turn around and put it on the Internet. Those products become available to everyone free of charge, and the copyright holders have lost potential sales revenue that they are entitled to under the law.

Anyone with Internet access and a hard drive can be a distributor – on the same playing field as iTunes or Sony or Warner Brothers. The Internet is the great equalizer.

Copyrighted property does not even have to be legally acquired. Anyone can go online and get it for nothing through one of the hundreds of well-known illegal P2P networks. But no matter how that song or movie got on a hard drive, once it’s there, its owner can become a distributor.

But what if having Internet access and a hard drive couldn’t make anyone a distributor?

Copyright property owners can regain control over product distribution to preserve asset value and enjoy the same Internet rights as every other industry.

If copyright holders could regain control over distribution, they could:

• Dictate price and receive full revenue
• Determine where and how their product is sold
• Decide what is sold

Copyright holders need to shut down the illegal distribution channel of P2P. The only way to stop the illegal distributors of copyrighted material is to control access to their channel of distribution. It’s a very simple equation: Controlled access = Controlled distribution. There is only one way to control access to the P2P pipeline – the pipeline of choice. It’s called Clouseau™. It is 100% access control effective. All legal and legitimate P2P transfers flow through, while all illegal and illegitimate transfers do not.

Clouseau™ has other positive attributes.

• It is sender and receiver blind.
• It completely protects the anonymity of users.
• It is impregnable to attack
• It is a lights out operation.
• It works at network speed.
• It is inexpensive.

Clouseau™ puts copyright holders in total control of Internet product distribution and, for the first time, truly unlocks the potential of the Internet.