Red Lambda, Inc. is a provider of identity-aware network solutions. The company recently announced that it is organizing an initiative to help the college campuses to decrease the rate of illegal file sharing, as the Higher Education Opportunity Act is set to take effect from July 1. With this law, it is the first time that the U.S. Department of Education enforces illegal file sharing restrictions of any kind.

 

Among the provisions of the act, now it is mandatory for universities to employ one or more technology-based deterrents to file sharing. Red Lambda's Integrity software is one among the only two Peer-to-Peer deterrent technologies endorsed by the U.S. Congress. It is also the one and the only solution that identifies users, but not the nature of the content they are downloading.

 

In a release, Rob Bird who is the President of Red Lambda said that "It serves very little purpose to identify the type or name of files being transferred. Instead, we developed a number of technologies that integrate with the existing network to accurately identify, and then notify, the user. Accurately identifying the user facilitates behavior change more quickly, and removes students and administration from the potentially embarrassing situations that occur when file names are revealed."

 

The identity-awareness technology developed by Red Lambda can be used to monitor network traffic and correlate the "who, where, when, what and how" of the network instantaneously to avoid Internet abuse all over the organization.

 

"The battle against unauthorized P2P file sharing is costing institutions millions of dollars. This legislation will have a wide-ranging impact on universities across the country. Red Lambda is working to help schools make this transition, and Integrity is the only P2P deterrent solution that provides fully automated notification and DMCA compliance, eliminating the human cost tied to combating the problem," added Bird.

 

Enacted almost two years ago, the HEOA demanded that all colleges and universities have to put forward an honest effort to meet the terms with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by working closely to lessen illegal music and movie file sharing in higher education. From July 1 onwards, voluntary compliance is no longer an option, the universities not in compliance will now be in violation of the law.