The Stanford Copyright Integrity Initiative has been introduced by Stanford University to demonstrate the university's leadership in efforts to strengthen the integrity of copyrights and intellectual property. The Stanford University Information Technology Services user agreement reserves the right of the university to monitor illegal copyright and media violations in all traffic on its network. In a bold response to the growing deterioration of copyrights at national universities, Stanford has decided to report all DMCA-violating traffic directly to the proper authorities (RIAA, MPAA, ESA) as part of Stanford's ongoing leadership in Silicon Valley and in the domain of intellectual property law online.