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Can P2P Filter Copyrighted Content?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-importantly-should-they dept.

scubacuda writes "DRMwatch reports that technologists acting on behalf of porn publisher Titan Media reported to Congress that P2P networks could (if they wanted to) use "fingerprinting" (aka "hashing") to detect copyrighted works and then filter them with the "spyware" installed on all nodes in the network."

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  1. Are you kidding me? by bigberk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Put aside the fact that all DRM can easily be bypassed anyway. But filtering 'copyrighted' content based on a hash? Give me a break. I'll padd my AVI withone byte and throw your hash completely off. This is like editing MP3's ID tags -- it changes the hash, makes it impossible to automatically identify a file.