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Napster, Audio Fingerprinting, and the Future of P2P

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.

mjmalone writes "Napster founder Sean Fanning is poised for a comeback, seems the now 22 year old Fanning has developed technology which creates "audio fingerprinting" of individual tracks and compares them against fingerprints in his firm's database to determine legality. A fee may be set and collected on a copyrighted track by its rightful owner. Fanning is actively recruiting industry support as well as pushing the idea to p2p services such as kazaa and grokster. " This isn't exactly new technology, but it's still interesting to see what Fanning is up to these days besides movie cameos.

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  1. Yeah right. by ieatfood · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    thats pretty gay, if I cant steal music off the internet i'll just run into BestBuy and steal all the CD's.

    --
    -- "Why would you quote your self?" -Me.
  2. You are the programming failure! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. C++ is for fags. C rules.
    2. The MD5 function is MD5(), not md5sum().
    3. You need to include <stdio.h>, <openssl/md5.h>.
    4. You should use mmap() to map both the MP3s into memory.
    5. Therefore you need <sys/mmap.h>.
    6. Where's your main() function, you fag?
    7. NEVER HARDCODE PATHNAMES INTO A PROGRAM!

    HTH, FAG!