LA Muni-Fi Filters Smut, P2P

Culver City, California was the first Los Angeles municipality to offer the public a free all-access Wi-Fi network. They're also the first to ban all porn and p2p from that network. The city says they've added Audible Magic's CopySense Network Appliance to filter illegal and 'problematic content' from their network. Once installed, the Audible Magic Copysense device digs through all network traffic looking for legit audio or video fingerprints in an effort to weed out copyrighted files based on a master database. The device can also throttle back p2p bandwidth, or prevent p2p altogether.