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College uses NAC to avoid P2P subpoenas

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College uses NAC to avoid P2P subpoenas

Tim Greene By Tim Greene
A college reports that NAC is delivering a new type of cost avoidance that is helping to pay for its NAC deployment. By discovering and controlling peer-to-peer file sharing of music and video with its NAC gear, the school has also cut back on the number of subpoenas it gets from music industry groups upset about pirating copyright material. At a cost of $1,200 each just to respond, that is a savings that can add up. Read full story

Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering network access control, virtual private networking gear, remote access, WAN acceleration and aspects of VoIP technology. You can reach him at tgreene@nww.com.

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1 comment:

Justin Lofton said...

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