The biggest harrasment for the Media Industry must be the file swapping services on the Internet. With communities active as KaZaA, Morpheus and Grokster, the first alone with 64 million users in America, the Music Industry claimed a reduction of cd sales of 30 % in a few years. But after serious battles in Court the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has found a way to claim those losses. 

In a court ruling the federal court determined that the file swapping services had to give up the ID's of users claimed to be involved in unlawful activities, such as copyright infringements. With these ID's the RIAA could find the persons responsible for the infringements and sue them.

That was just what the RIAA did with four college students it claimed had been swapping over  2.5 million music and video files. It sued these men for the legal limit damages in such cases of $150,000 per each copyright infringed. The RIAA finally reached settlements ranging from $12,000 to $17,000 each. But the Industry vowed it wants to reach stiffer penalties and launch more anti-piracy tactics in the future, including sending warnings to all KaZaA, Morpheus and Grokster users.

But what to do if you are an artist with a new album and don't want to wait on the infringements to be made but want to prevent them. Or you are writer with a new best selling book and don't want it to be copied from the Internet. In the first case Pretection can "spoof" the file trading communities. Damaged files with the original name of the song are placed in the community. This file is copied before anyone realises it is not the original and within days thousands of the damaged files are in circulation making it very unattractive to copy a file with the song name on it again.

In the second case, Pretection's Image Protection System (IPS) can protect files on the Internet from being copied. That means books, pictures, articles etc. This system makes it virtually impossible to copy the files on the Internet preventing a widespread use of your files on other sites.