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Shawn Fanning's New Venture

Posted by timothy on from the first-mover-advantage dept.

prostoalex writes "We've read about Justin Frankel, but what are the other heroes of the MP3 revolution up to? News.com.com.com tells the story of Shawn Fanning's new company. SnoCap (which changed its name from Open Copyright Database) is currently developing file-sharing mechanisms that would allow the music industry to earn money."

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  1. original name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    His lawyers wouldn't let him call it AssCap (get it, poking fun at ASCAP)?

  2. New website? by ksheka · · Score: 2, Funny

    News.com.com.com For when you want news about news.com.com ???

    Yes, /. is redundant at times, but I thought the guys at CNet were a bit better...

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  3. OCD? by Jonah+Hex · · Score: 2, Funny
    which changed its name from Open Copyright Database
    Might be a good thing to be called OCD, they could say their Obsessive and Compulsive about their Database software!

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  4. I have a log of the program's debug output! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Snocap has been working on ways to identify songs, as they are traded through a file-swapping network, including using a technique called "audio fingerprinting," which monitors the sonic characteristics of music files.

    shawn $ fingerprint_id_test test_files.txt

    LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: beethoven.mp3
    Identifying ...
    100% Match: Beethoven, Ludwig Van, classical

    LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: coltrane.mp3
    Identifying ...
    100% Match: Coltrane, John, Jazz

    LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: chembros.mp3
    Identifying ...
    100% Match: Chemical Brothers, electronic
    77% Match: Daft Punk, electronic
    75% Match: Noise, industrial-moise-recording

    LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: britspears.mp3
    Identifying ...
    100% Match: Spice girls, teenage pop
    100% Match: N'Sync, teenage pop
    100% Match: Backstreet Boys, teenage pop
    100% Match: Hilary Duff, teenage pop
    100% Match: Maris Willson, teenage pop
    100% Match: Holly Valance, teenage pop
    100% Match: Mandy Moore, teenage pop
    100% Match: Vitamin C, teenage pop
    100% Match: Christina Aguilera, teenage pop
    100% Match: Five, teenage pop
    100% Match: Jennifer Lopez, teenage pop
    100% Match: Aaliyah, teenage pop
    100% Match: Rachel Stevens, teenage pop
    100% Match: Pink, teenage pop

    *** Endless recursion error. Core dumped ***

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  5. "allow the music industry to earn money" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    allow the music industry to earn money

    Next, we'll be teaching fish to swim, birds to fly, and rabbits to reproduce....

  6. He's not the real Napster by Stubtify · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's not Napster! I'm the real napster. Shawn was my roommate in college, I rote napster and named it that because I was always napping. When I fell asleep one day he stole the program from me and now he gets all the glory.