Napster, Audio Fingerprinting, and the Future of P2P

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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the mentioned movie appearance

[jdkane]

Shawn Fanning's cameo appearance in The Italian Job. It appears as though the more popular spelling of his name is "Shawn" instead of "Sean".