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Music Industry Develops Centralized File-Sharing System

Posted by michael on from the missing-the-point dept.

pearljam145 writes "A new file-sharing standard designed to distribute copyrighted music and movies legitimately has been developed by a technology consortium. The system could deliver any content format to any computer, and users might even earn rewards points for sharing the files. Using the new standard, computer users could share small files containing information about music, video or other data, but not the content itself. The Content Reference Forum (CRF), founded by Universal Music Group backed by technology companies including Microsoft, is hoping the sharing file standard will be adopted by technology companies and incorporated into software music players."

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  1. technology -1,redundant by rootofevil · · Score: 5, Funny

    its called usenet. and people share huge files there anyway. if this catches on little jimmy is going to be learning about tar archives pretty quickly.

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  2. um... thanks for the help RIAA by akaina · · Score: 5, Funny

    so... this program will help me correctly fill in the ID3 tags of all my MP3's? Thanks :)

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  3. Shh! by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ontday alktay about usenetbay!

  4. Centralized by paul248 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haven't we learned that centralized file sharing isn't a good idea? This'll get shut down by the music industry in no tim-- oh, never mind.

  5. Darn underpants gnomes by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step 1: Create a really stupid P2P system.
    Step 2: Convince Congress to outlaw everything else.
    Step 3: Profit

    1. Re:Darn underpants gnomes by carpe_noctem · · Score: 5, Funny

      1. Take well known slashdot joke, screw up formatting
      2. Get modded to +5, funny
      3. ???
      4. Profit!!

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  6. This is the most brilliant idea anyone ever had by subjectstorm · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what's really SO great about this proposed file sharing system?

    What's so great is that it doesn't actually allow you share anything. OH . . . MY . . . GOD! SIGN ME UP!!!

    Now i can make "metadatas" that say things like "Britney Speerz r0XX0rZ! sHe 0wnz j00! loolollllol!!1!!11! omgroflbrb!!111!!!1" and . . . and . . . OMG! i can SHARE these with all my friends!!!

    and then, presumably, because they had that metadata, they would now have the permissions necessary to purchase her music from some online music store without getting to listen to it first! Man! I WISH that wal-mart worked that way, but they'll let just ANYBODY come in and buy music without listening to it first, or, or, they try to make you preview it on those nasty headphone things? ew?

    And they don't even give you POINTS for it.

    God, i love points. One time, i got like, a millions points on pac-man, and i almost creamed my shorts.

    iTunes is so dead.

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    1. Re:This is the most brilliant idea anyone ever had by Alinabi · · Score: 5, Funny

      You have to aknowledge their candor though:

      " Because the files contain no content, they could be distributed in any way without concerns about piracy."

      I guess it is perfect for sharing the kind of music they've been pushing on us lately

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  7. Content-free content by hysterion · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the article:
    Because the files contain no content, they could be distributed in any way without concerns about piracy.

    Contain no content?

    Someone ought to suggest them Write-Only Memory as a better solution to the p2p problem.

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