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RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes

Posted by michael on from the speakeasy-dsl-sucks dept.

aSiTiC writes "Apparently RIAA has obtained some technical experts in their prosecution of file swappers. Currently they are tracking traded mp3 files from the Napster network by matching MD5 hashes. This seems quite interesting but I was under the assumption that identical hashes could be created with identical rips and id3v2 tagging. Now may be the time to update your illegal mp3 file MD5 hash sums."

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  1. gee? by Comsn · · Score: 5, Funny
    The RIAA, the trade group for the largest record labels, said it also found other hidden evidence inside the woman's music files suggesting the songs were recorded by other people and distributed across the Internet.


    ya think? and here i thought it was the magical mp3 fairy who put mp3s on my hd...
  2. HOWTO: Encrypted partition by geeveees · · Score: 5, Funny

    modprobe loop
    modprobe cryptoloop
    modprobe aes

    losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 /dev/hdb1
    (input password)

    mke2fs -j /dev/loop0

    mount -t ext3 /dev/loop0 /home/kombat/pr0n

    enjoy!

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  3. Give up by Rutje · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok guys.. let's all give it up. Let's delete all our MP3's and start buying CD's now. The RIAA has clearly won!
    Hail to the king!

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  4. From the Napster Network?? by re-Verse · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the NAPSTER network??? This is worse than i thought - it appears the RIAA has built a Time Machine! Next they will be going further back than napster andprosecuting free-thinking pilgrims who would share their newspapers.

    Yikes.