[OPLINTECH] Coshocton County Courthouse free wifi shutdown due to illegal download

[Chad Neeper]

For the libraries I support that have content filtering in place for 
CIPA, the content filtering covers the WiFi as well. The content filter, 
DansGuardian (open source) does a pretty good job of blocking 
inappropriate and illegal content, but it is certainly not foolproof. 
Aside from that, it's down to the library's Internet AUP, which 
obviously is no deterrent!

I don't know of any current technology within any of my clients' budgets 
that can really, truly prohibit illegal movie downloads based on the 
download itself (as opposed to filtering a known website or keyword 
content on the page linking to a download). The closest technology I can 
think of that actually identifies video content itself is the video 
search technology that Google is/was working on a few years ago. I don't 
know off-hand what ever became of it, though.

Hopefully someone has better input here!


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Chad Neeper
Senior Systems Engineer

Level 9 Networks
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Marlene Pelyhes wrote:
> Hello
>
> This news article link tells the story of the public wifi service 
> discontinued because of an illegal movie download - the open wifi was outside Coshocton County Courthouse.
>
> http://www.financetechnews.com/free-wifi-ends-because-of-one-illegal-download/
>
> Do you have save guards against illegal downloads on your public library  wifi?  If yes, what do you use? Is it costly?
> Do you turn off the wifi during closed hours?
> Do patron log in with a library card for identification purposes?
>
> Thanks,
> Marlene Pelyhes
> IT Manager
> Mentor Public Library
>
>
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