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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. Re:gee? by InsaneCreator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unfortunately, the magical mp3 fairy does not exist. Also, they've canceled Christmas... and the Easter Bunny is dead!