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Software Poses Challenges to Anonymous File Sharing

The software, Copyright Agent and a system employed by Emusic can track users who share files online. The developers of Copyright Agent claim that their software can track users on Freenet, a system that provides total anonymity to content posters.

ISPs Face Down DMCA, Wired News, December 23, 2000.