MPAA and RIAA Join Internet2

11th Sep 2005 01:23 #1

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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium led by the research and higher education community, today announced that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) joined Internet2 as corporate members. Both leading industry associations plan to collaborate with the Internet2 community to consider innovative content distribution and digital rights management technologies, and to study emerging trends on high-performance networks to enable future business models. "Internet2 networking is an incredibly exciting tool for researchers, technologists and many others interested in developing new technologies, policies and business models for the next generation. Its value now and potential in the future are extraordinary, and we are very pleased to join this diverse community," said Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA. "We look forward to collaborative work with a broad spectrum of Internet2's members to develop new technologies that will enable us to produce and distribute digital content over next generation networks in ways that protect and enhance the value of creative works."

One of the prime values of the advanced network infrastructure the Internet2 community has deployed is that it represents the leading-edge of Internet technology and therefore provides a window into the potential of the future of the Internet. Internet2 provides MPAA and RIAA an innovative testbed for examining future networking and secure distribution capabilities not possible on today's commercial Internet. The associations are reviewing the working groups and special interest groups within the Internet2 framework to determine the best opportunities for collaboration.