Napster, Audio Fingerprinting, and the Future of P2P

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 13, 2003 @03:17AM 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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What an awesome new technology! by Radrik · 2003-07-13 03:22 · Score: 5, Funny

if(md5sum("myfile.mp3") == md5sum("Limp_Bizkit-Crap.mp3")
cout "PIRATE!";
question by the+uNF+cola · 2003-07-13 03:25 · 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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Business savvy by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-13 03:37 · Score: 4, Funny

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