Software To Stop Song Trading

Shippy writes "Palisade Systems is about to launch new software that can identify and block copyrighted songs as they are being traded online. However, the article fails to mention that it will also stop legal song downloads. The software blocks anything that's copyrighted, whether you already own the song in another format or not. Here's some snippets from the article: 'If installed in a university, for example, it could look inside students' emails, instant messages and peer-to-peer transfers...', and 'Jacobson said the identification process would not work on an encrypted network, such as is used in several newer file-swapping programs. However, the Palisade software could also act to block those applications from using the network altogether.' Great."

Comments

Re:MY Rights??

[LostCluster]

If a company puts GPL'd code in their (closed) product, they save the money they otherwise would have had to spend to pay programmers to write equivalent code. If you copy music, you save the money you otherwise would have had to spend to buy it at a store. These are more similar than you seem to be willing to acknowledge.

Yep, it's all about preventing money transfers. And therefore this thing known as an "economy" grinds to a halt... stuff stops being made and we decend into anarchy...

Re:MY Rights??

[mark-t]

Wrong.

The last syllable of copyright _IS_ the word "right", and as such carries with it the right to copy. This right is initially held only by the copyright holder and can be granted to whomever the copyright holder chooses. The right to copy has been in existence since the dawn of copyright itself... but this does not mean that one has the right to copy without permission. The invention of the internet has given us the ability to do so quickly, easily, largely covertly, and at minimal cost in terms of time and dollars, but this does not give us the right to do that any more than the invention of the home color printer gives people the right to produce counterfeit money.

Re:Eck

[djr1952]

Well then the RIAA database will just say that ever possible numeric sequence from one zero(0) to a stream of all one(1)s is a copyrighted song and therefore should be BLOCKED.

That's what the RIAA is after anyway isn't it? Unless they get payment any form of commincation is ellegal.

Re:And, thusly...

[cheekyboy]

University admins are the biggest pedlers of warez/mp3s I know.

Them and the staff of departments (the techy geeky ones at least) keep internal servers of Gigs of warez and mp3s. They just keep it within their group.

Im sure any IT/soft engineer in a university is going to get around any scheme they put in, and the company will always be slow to update the checkers coz they are a normal slow responding business, they arent going to update data files constantly for 1000 diff clients daily.