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Carnivore, a system that has already been used in more than 20 cases, is designed for such limited taps. Run on a standard PC installed on the network of an Internet service provider (ISP), Carnivore receives a copy of every data packet and picks out, in real time, incoming and outgoing e-mail addresses or Web requests for a given user. As a result, the government has argued that the system poses no threat to civil liberties--its strength is not in widespread surveillance, but in recording addressing information equivalent to the numbers dialed on a telephone...
...also requires that the ISP terminate the Internet connection of a repeat copyright offender...
...Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks...
However, the act also requires that an ISP identify users infringing on copyrights when prompted by the copyright holder...
That higher authority, King said, is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which requires that ISP's take reasonable steps to put an end to copyright violations which they are made aware of by the copyright holder...