Kiwis develop an end to illegal downloads

Kiwis develop an end to illegal downloads

Manabars Technologies Limited (MTL) has developed a revolutionary new business model for the music industry which recognizes and rewards the illegal downloader’ s distribution skills i.e. the new model pays the pirate and the music owner.

MTL is a private NZ IT company with a vision to facilitate the seamless trade in digital assets. In conjunction with an international music conglomerate the NZ market is currently being used as a test bed. Market trials have commenced and will continue over the next few weeks with MTL seeking to achieve a paradigm shift in the music industry business model.

Market testing is scheduled for completion in September with licensing opportunities being offered to all music distributors. Further applications targeted at other industries wishing to protect their Internet content (movies, publishing, banking) provide an ongoing development path.

MTL company spokesperson Dr John Dunbar states that “any application based on the secure and hacker free network that can provide a solution to the 20 billion illegal music downloads will provide MTL investors with significant value and be a further example of NZ innovation.”

The company has approximately 200 shareholders who have invested in excess of $1.5 million in developing the technology, with NZ government grants contributing over $100,000 in the past two years.

The company’s computer laboratory is located at the Unitec campus in Auckland as part of a unique strategic alliance that has computer science students participating in project work as part of their degree with the opportunity of ongoing employment once gratified. Over 20 students have participated with 12 now full time Employee’s.

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The application runs on a secure network which has been six years in development.

To achieve the vision MTL faced the following very serious Internet problems:

• The Internet was designed a long time ago and did not anticipate modern computing requirements
• The core of the design is “dumb but flexible ”
• Security is a joke
• Exponential growth in malware
• Bad people do want to cause chaos (not envisaged by the creators)

There has been little will to win the war, with the IT industry tending to fight fires by pointing hoses at uncontrolled blazes, sometimes inventing new hoses but never really dousing the flames and never seeking out the fire’s source in order to extinguish it.

MTL has gone to the source of the fire and reengineered computer hardware. The hardware architecture is founded in mathematical Set Theory, which guarantees total security. Set Theory breaks all information into containers similar to directories and is known as Sets. The instructions in the CPU only allow access to information inside containers, but never outside. This fundamental premise ensures software cannot attack other software because it doesn't have access to the container.

MTL has taken the hardware design, patented it and built the Manabars Network - a software platform that cannot be hacked and enables applications to leapfrog to an internet orientated deployment.

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