My company created an application that can send large attachements from one mail recipient to another (because most mailboxes are very limited).
But we were wondering how we can prevent the uploading of warez? For now all extentions are allowed, but we could restrict the extentions to zip and images.
But if you zip warez you can still upload these.
Are there any tools, methods or something like it to prevent the uploading of warez through our system?
Some more info:
This project is semi-public. It will mostly be used for the communication between customer and company. Therefore an email address of our company is always required (either within the receivers as that of the senders, but you all know how easy it is to manipulate this).
Define what ‘warez’ is first.
I’m pretty sure you’re going to have problems with that.
You can probably implement heuristics that figure out that you’re sending applications and just ban that, but there’s no way you’re going to figure out that one application is a pirated copy and another isn’t and allow the legal one while ban the pirated one.
If you control the server, and is afraid that people will upload pirated copies of applications onto your server and use it to spread it with, then I’m pretty sure your only option is to check with a lawyer what you’re obligated to do.
I think it boils down to that you need a system where copyright owners can inform you of pirated copies being present and that you have a system to remove said content within a time frame. I think that’s all that is required.