Legally Online: Noise and the Public Net
The Net has many more and far dirtier jobs in store for software agents. For example, copyright owners, including every entertainment and publishing company enormous or small will deploy agents to seek out infringing copies of their property wherever it resides on the Net. Marketers of every stripe will have agents on the Net as their eyes, ears and fashion calipers, monitoring online pop culture continuously. Cops will welcome the multiplication of their efforts by software agents, using them lavishly to even the odds against hackers careening through cyberspace, drug dealers, and of course their self-declared main target, online pedophiles. Look particularly for the IRS to use agents to scour the Internet thoroughly