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Making and Detecting Illegal Music
Demona writes "Long-time music aficionado
Dave Marsh has an article in the latest edition of
Counterpunch entitled
Sampler's Delight. Giving rave reviews to "Nothing to Fear", the
latest in a
long line of so-called
illegal music, he also describes a "'major label waveform CD database,' which is capable of recognizing materials allegedly owned by the record label cartel." This database is allegedly why a UK pressing plant rejected the initial attempt at publishing "Nothing To Fear", which is comprised almost entirely of sampled material."
Make a song detailing how to decrypt dvds.
I should note that it would be easy to use such a database to detect pure pirates... ie people pressing exact duplicates of commercial albums. But the article is about a recycled beats record, something made presumably by tens of thousands of samples put together. Certainly not going to match in gracenote, unless it was a random false match which does happen.
While i believe there is/was at least one startup that was working to match music using a beats & tone analysis method that could match to songs that had been shifted or obscured in some way
That was Relatable.
i'm not sure this technology has ever been in real use.
Napster 10.x used it. MusicBrainz uses it.
11,000 albums heavily compressed to 160kbps still takes approximately 600gb
Relatable claims that its tech can identify songs down to 16 kbps.
Will I retire or break 10K?
but is there not a certain degree of freedown allowable in reference parodies?
Under United States copyright law as interpreted by the courts, parody is only parody when the parody ridicules the original work itself. That's why The Wind Done Gone is legal but The Cat Not in the Hat isn't.
Will I retire or break 10K?
When you the MP3 of the song in a few filters, it gives the DeCSS source code.
I have done this. Along the lines of what Aphex Twin used to hide his face, I wrote a program that converted a .bmp of the efdtt source code (efdtt is a small DeCSS program, available at the Gallery of CSS Descramblers) into a waveform (using an inverse fourier transform of sorts) and mixed it on top of some song.
Will I retire or break 10K?
..if it was impossible to trade mp3's(or .ogg or such), i'd be listening to .mods, .xm's , sids, and maybe midi's. i listened mostly to those (+radio) before mp3's.. great amounts of music available and cost was only downloading from some bbs, and those included some really good songs too.
streaming nectarine now..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I know in the UK there is a service called Shazam which you call up with your mobile phone, point your phone at a 'music source' for around 15 seconds and then you get a text message/SMS back around 30 seconds later showing a) the artist name (handy for 'cover versions) and b) the track name. It also has the facility (if you register) to 'store' your requests on its website and give appropriate links to online music stores.
It seems to work quite alright as well, I tested it by playing 2 tracks at once out my speakers - it correctly identified one of them (I thought it'll fail complete), I've tried it via the radio on a bus - again success, admiteddly it failed in a very crowded and noisy nightclub - but it's still damn good (and resonable cheap) for identifying music.
The claim that they can recognise 1.5million different tracks from just a 15 second second sample - I don't know how they do it though, but I know *I'm* impressed by the technology!
For Puff Daddy, the music thing is now a sideline. He's really an apparel designer, and a good one. See his new fall 2002 line, selling under the Sean John label. He's considered the most innovative designer in men's fashion right now. His stuff sells, too, unlike most other new ideas in menswear. It's not just runway fashion.
You are correct. Satire (using elements of a copyrighted work for comical/ludicrous effect) is not protected. Only parody (using elements of a copyrighted work to make fun of the work itself) is.
e.g. if a Saturday Night Live sketch featured actors dressed up as Star Wars characters in order to make fun of Star Wars, that would be fair use (parody). But if they were making fun of American politics (satire), they would need a license from Lucasfilm.
Of course this distinction is pretty ridiculous... It's the result of copyright holders successfully claiming that copyright is an absolute "property right" (which it is not).
Try these:
Pharcyde
The Jurassic Five
Sage Francis
Gangstarr
Prince Paul
Handsome Boy Modelling School
DJ Craze
The Spooks
Dead Prez
Aesop Rock
Del the Funky Homosapien
There are hundreds more.
Stephen Tyndall
mp3s of Negativland's original "U2" single is available here. Top of the page. "The forbidden single"