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Legislators Looking At Peer to Peer Monitor

Posted by simoniker on from the big-p2p-bruvva dept.

rocketjam writes "According to CNET News, a California based software company has developed a song-identification technology which could be incorporated into file sharing software. It would then monitor music being downloaded or made available in a shared folder, identify songs by a process which examines their 'psycho-acoustical' properties and then compare them to a copyright database and stop them from being traded if a match is found. Audible Magic, has been demoing its technology before legislators and regulators in Washington D.C for the past month. The RIAA is greatly enamored of the concept and has helped the company get access to government officials. However, the technology would obviously require the makers of file swapping software to add it into their products either voluntarily or through legislation."

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  1. well duh by HenryFjord · · Score: 2, Funny

    The following will be said in this thread "THE RIAA is EVIL, burn in hell!" "Stealing music is illegal.. shut up asshat it's copyright infringement." "The music produced nowadays is utter crap" "Use freenet" and so on....

  2. Oh, they'll add it alright... by stienman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course they'll add it, voluntarily even. Just think - you request a download of a particular band's song, and the software verifies that you're getting the illegal file you want instead of some cranky artist going, "What the &#*@ do you think you're doing?" and some silence.

    -Adam

    1. Re:Oh, they'll add it alright... by Daktaklakpak · · Score: 3, Funny

      actually, i can't remember i time when i downloaded a song and it turned out not to be the song described in the title. now is it just me, or is porn a COMPLETELY different story? i mean, some of those files you can get off kazaa bear no relation to what the title/filename say they're about! if someone could write a program that can check and identify the content of video, THAT would be a real breakthrough...

    2. Re:Oh, they'll add it alright... by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 4, Funny

      I just do it manually... er, I mean visually.

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  3. Muzak by DigiShaman · · Score: 2, Funny

    It works so well because the waveforms it picks up is nothing more then consumer grade muzak. So be it, all the better. I've always wanted a meathod of cleaning up all the hiphop crap from P2P networks. Heh

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  4. "Here, run this program". by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "We want you to install and run this program."
    "Why?"
    "It will watch everything you do, download, or put on your computer, and if it deems a file to be illegal it will delete it."
    "Oh, okay."

    aha.
    ahaha.
    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  5. Dear downloader of our new P2P software: by IvyMike · · Score: 3, Funny

    This software contains code which will identify and restrict you from doing what the RIAA deems is bad. Please do not spend the additional 20 seconds it would take to find and download the crack that removes all such restrictions. Thank you.

  6. Why the hell would I want something like that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd rather just steal music anonymously, thanks.

  7. Re:Songle, a optimist's view. by PB+Curtis · · Score: 2, Funny

    The company's technology works by identifying "psycho-acoustical" properties--essentially the computer equivalent of listening to the song itself. So if it's going to toe the copyright line, it would identify My_Sweet_Lord.mp3 as Hes_So_Fine.mp3.

  8. Re:This, or vigilantism by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny
    As is said in 'The mythical man month' (I think) "Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of back-up tapes.

    Nope. Andrew S. Tannenbaum, Computer Networks, Section 2.2.1., "Magnetic Media"

    The exact quote:

    ...it is likely that no other transmission technology can even begin to approach magnetic tape for performance or cost effectiveness.

    The moral of the story is: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

    I only know that, because the book was sitting right next to me. Still...

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  9. Re:Wonder how well that will work after by miu · · Score: 3, Funny
    3 and 4: Software exists that can recognize a .zip or .tar file, decompress it, and then the normal process can analyze its contents.

    This kind of software is too prone to denial of service to be deployed on public networks. As a trivial case zip a file containing the string 'pwned' 100 million times or more, the file will compress at about 1000:1 and probably crash the process that tries to uncompress it to examine it.

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  10. Oh, Oh!! let me guess!!! *waves hand* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They rediscovered the ID3 tag commonly used in MP3 songs, they patented it and finally showed the concept to RIAA and expect fileshareing NOT to use cryptografy and related protocols in the next few versions.

  11. I swear by Molina+the+Bofh · · Score: 2, Funny

    I swear that when I glanced the test I read it as "The RIAA is greedly enamored of the concept and has helped the company get access to government officials."

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