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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. What an awesome new technology! by Radrik · · Score: 5, Funny

    if(md5sum("myfile.mp3") == md5sum("Limp_Bizkit-Crap.mp3")
    cout "PIRATE!";

    1. Re:What an awesome new technology! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      you forgot a closing ) you n00b

  2. question by the+uNF+cola · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will it be able to tell the diff between...

    Backstreet boys, N'Sync and other boy bands?
    Creed, Nickleback and other "rock bands"?
    50-cent and DMX?

    I wonder if record companies will accept mistakes when differentiating between these artists :)

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  3. Knowing the RIAA by MoeMoe · · Score: 0, Funny

    They will expect all the cash that Napster 2 might make to go to them and have all the other p2p networks follow suit or the RIAA will keep pestering them till they do...

    Reminds me of that rich kid in school who used to pick on kids for money (even though he had plenty for lunch)... Let's just say the RIAA will be going in the way of this kid: One day, all the other kids (p2p users in this case) got together gave him a swirley, and made him walk home in his tighty whiteys... No one was suspended because then they would have to throw out the whole school. In the end we all just had to write "I will not fight in school" 100 times which was well worth it. Ahhh the meories...

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  4. Business savvy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    He has a good business plan: create a big problem, then solve it.

  5. Good solution, NOTster by Hao+Wu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure- I'll volunteer all my files to be tested by some random company, and they can tell me whether I owe them money or broke the law in some way.

    Just contact me here: Hao_Wu@not-likely-to-happen.com, care of GET FUCKED.

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  6. I can see it now... by caouchouc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Father O'Malley,

    Your music file "Angels We Have Heard On High.mp3" matches "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy in our audio fingerprint database. Our lawyers will be in contact with you about this infringement.

    Sincerely,
    Recording Industry Association of America