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Record Labels Release Software To Combat Piracy
mrsalty writes "CNET reports that IFPI representatives are pushing a new piece of software to delete filesharing programs. It will also 'search computers for music and movies and remove any illegal copies'." From the article: "Digital File Check is easy to use and can help people prevent their employees, children and others from illegally downloading and swapping movies ... It could be especially useful for parents who want to encourage their children to enjoy music responsibly on the Internet ... It is free, voluntary and for private use only and does not tip off any antipiracy organizations."
"Please remove your spyware-filled file-sharing software in favor of our spyware-filled file-sharing-deleter software." -IFPI
I can't wait until the download completes!!!!
Any bets on how long the program will remain uncracked?
Indeed, considering the political clout of these media groups, it would not be unreasonable to believe that running such software on a very regular basis will become mandatory in the near future. Of course, what that means for non-Windows users is uncertain.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
How, pray tell, does it tell the difference between bits that come from my CDs that I own versus those which come from CDs that others own? I believe one of those copies is perfectly legal.
I seem to remember someone releasing a scanner for illegal files a while ago which turned out just to flag things randomly by file extension or something.
Does it run on Linux?
Seriously, though, I think this is a good idea. It's voluntary, and should be used by parents to keep their kids in line. (Around here, don't we normally bitch about parents not being involved in their kids' growth?)
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So the kid with 20 gigs of music he copied off of his CD collection is going to be ~really~ upset when he finds out his Mom ran this program on his computer and wiped out his ~legal~ music collection.
Agile Artisans
Various issues asside..
I wonder if it'll kill off all the spyware that comes with various P2P services as well?
If so, I wonder if I could load it as a quiet service on my parent's computer, to keep my little brother from @#%$#@'ng hosing it again with god knows what off P2P...
It is, however, a silly concept to think it'll actually affect piracy.
Code. Writing. Writing Code. Writing in general. What? They aren't -that- differnet.
I wonder how long it'll be before they start getting sued by people and companies when the software misidentifies something legitimate and winds up disabling computers...
Man, I haven't laughed this hard all day. Why can't the Slashdot April Fools posts have this level of quality?
I didnt see anything about how they determine if the files are illegal. I'd be mighty pissed if it went and nuked my collection of mp3.com, itunes, and personal CD rips.
Seriously, are they just wiping all non-DRM'd content from your system if it matches some sort of checksum or keywords? I'm not sure how they can tell what movies and music files are "illegal," from TFA.
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I have over 1,000 CD's that I have legally ripped (since I have purchased the buggers over my lifetime). How does your software determine that they are "legal," as opposed to an mp3 that I could have illegally downloaded off of the net?
Digital File Check Remover beta released...
"It is free, voluntary and for private use only and does not tip off any antipiracy organizations."
When you release the source code, I might believe you.
...how these people use "employees and children" in one sentence. It's as if they think the two are nearly synonymous.
So how is this software going to differienate between the legitmate stuff I ripped from my cd collection in regular mp3 format, and the stuff I might have downloaded from something like bit tor?
yay now the 10 people against piracy can keep their kids from enjoying it too!
Just a guess.
Reminder: Apple owns 1/255th of the internet.
Then sue the hell out of them when it deletes something it shouldn't.
liqbase
Voluntary huh? Yeah, this is really going to accomplish anything. If it were mandatory on all machines built from now on, perhaps, there would be a massive rebellion; keeping it voluntary keeps it from ever doing anything, really. Some parents might use it, but why use it, make yourself pay (if your child is under, say, 15) for your kid's music if you know they can get it for free? If they're older than that, if a parent tries to use it, chances are their child knows more about the software involved than the parent (not always the case), and it's...I don't know where I'm going exactly, but the point is this is silly and pointless. The software, not this post. (At least I think so).
I know nothing
Could people use this as an affirmative defense if caught? I found that my child had downloaded copyrighted material but I used "your tool" to delete it. If they are providing a solution to files that have already been downloaded then are they forgiving us for our past sins?
And where exactly is the problem with this? When they sue people, they always claim they didn't do it, it was their kids. And many people stand up and say they shouldn't be sued because their kids did it, or someone else did it, or they didn't know it was on their computer. Now they are putting out software that will tell people exactly if something suspect in on their system and help get rid of it. Isn't this what we want, a way for people to actually know what is going on on their system? It's voluntary, and removes the BS excuse of "I didn't know" because now they have an easy way to know.
"Information wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, the same guy who said "Information wants to be free"
rm -r -f /
finally, an end to file sharing once and for all...
This sounds like a tool the MPAA release awhile ago. The problem with MPAA version is it doesn't distingush between legally aquired songs and movies and pirated one.
I would if this software suffers from the same flaw (I suspect it does).
1) Wait for *AA's to make new software announcement 2) Post story with direct link to software on front page 3) Sip coffee as their server crumbles 4) Profit!
I said it's a good idea. I have no doubt the actual implementation has flaws.
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When was the last time children enjoyed music responsibly. Are we so far back into the conservative era that even our kids are just boring do goodders in a three piece suite listening to how horrible it is to lie? God I hope not. For the past 40 years or so music has been one thing that kids can do irresponsibly without causing massive destruction. Take that away from them and they will have to turn to drugs and such, which will mean the kids will have no money to buy music.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
damnit!
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How does it distinguish between the copies on my computer that I made for fair use (so I can put them on a CD-R or my Ipod)? Can it distinguish media that has been renamed or has been coded using using Ogg or other means? Does this build a "model" of the audio and use something like HMM or GMM to determine if an audio cut matches a reference?
Frist! Oh wait - wrong forum.
and thats all i have to say about that...
This has been "out there" for a few days now. The important thing to remember if you didn't even read the blurb is that it is %100 voluntary! You have to go and download this program intentionally in order for it to delete your files
Robert Bindler
A Computer Science student's views on technology.
If by “software” you mean “MP3 files” and by “release” you mean “upload to a web server,” then yes, that might just work.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
I don't see the big issue, I'm running it right now and it ru........... -signal terminated-
If I understand this correctly, they are freely providing software that will go through your system and make modification that the software's author thinks are best for the author. Isn't that called a trojan horse program?
I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person that I'm preaching to.
Oh wait...nevermind, carry on.
Until this is modified by some "unknown" (wink wink) third party to become a virus
From TFA " The software, available for download, will also search computers for music and movies and remove any illegal copies, the group said." So how does it know the copies of songs/movies on a computer are "illegal"?. And, not having seen the EULA, I bet there's a clause absolving them from any damages that result from the program's use.
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
grasping at straws?
GOD I wanted to install something like this SO BAD!
Where can I immediately download this?!? I WANT IT NOW!
it was highly illegal to destroy or alter a consumer's legally purchased or used software without a warrant. And Open Source software is legally purchased pursuant to it's license requirements.
...
Not only that, but the new anti-spyware law says software which harms or damages a computer is illegal as well
Or did I miss something and we live in Red Russia now under Comrade Bush?
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It seems like all that any of this software will do is simply delay the deistribution of pirated software. People will always find a way around it..
I think people in the IT industry have a name for this sort of software: Virus
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I also have one other simple question: If this is (I am assuming) a Windows program, whats so hard about going to control panel and clicking on that Add/Remove Programs Icon? I know if your super lazy it must be a huge task, but shit this program just seems like its made for total idiots, and my other assumption is that it was written by idiots.
Then again, not everyone can get a BSD Gangster like me :)
For a small company like ours it's not nessaccarilly a bad thing. I'd rather use a passive system to stop people from downloading at work that using more invasive methods. It's strictly a productivity issue. Bandwidth and hard drive space are a limited commodity and most important of all is their time spent doing it. Whatever they do at home is fine but at work it'd be nice to have them work. It's either big brother software to prevent it or looking over their shoulder which I don't personally like. I can set the policy but some will ignore it when every machine is tied to a high speed line. If you want downloaded music at work it's called a CD player or Ipod.
This software seems unobjectionable. Any software designed to heighten awareness of what is happening on one's computer seems worthy of praise.
That kid has some serious allowance!
The Register had this yesterday. The reader followups in their postbag indicate that it is less than intelligent in its search, missing large folders of downloaded mp3s and misidentifying legal downloads as dodgy just because they have no DRM.
riaa.sh:
#!/bin/sh
rm *.mp3 *.avi *.mpg
since we all know how ridiculous it is, i wonder who is going to use such a program ?
schools ?
public libraries ?
cs kiddies mothers ?
no really. the riaa has thrown some effort into this project, but what else is it than just plain stupid ?
Will there be a Linux/FreeBSD version?
http://www.automatiq.se
sounds like a voluntarily installed virus. I wonder how it detects copyright infringed media files...
:
Searching movies
filename : "PhD Dissertation 20050827 : Mating habits of the male spider.pdf" => "Spiderman : The Movie" detected. File deleted.
... is this software supposed to know if an MP3 or OGG file is "legal"?
Is it somehow magically able to scan my physical CD collection?
I wouldn't be surprised if it just deleted every music file on the system it gets run on.
Step 1: Find illegal files.
/Underpants Gnome Spoof
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
"Time to go to work, work all night
search for mp3s hey!
We won't stop until we have mp3s
Yum tum yummy tum day!"
anyone have the torrent? I guess updates won't be available in torrent form since it will have removed all bittorrent clients on the everyone's computer.
*great 50's tune playing in the background*
*sings*
those crazy kids are at it again
RIAA wil cleanse your sin
download our crap and run it fast
or we'll sue your ass into the past!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
This is MY galaxy...go find your OWN!
. . . encourage their children to enjoy music responsibly on the Internet
"What are you doing, Dad?"
"I'm teaching you how to enjoy your music responsibly."
"What?"
"Well actually son, I don't really care about how responsible you are or your music. I'm just making sure I don't get sued by the RIAA."
Just so you don't feel left out, here's the Linux version:
find . \( -iname "*.mp3" -or -iname "*.avi" -or -iname "*.mov" -or -iname "*.wmv" -or -iname "*.rm" -or -iname "*.ogg" \) -delete
I read the internet for the articles.
I'm waiting for news saying they have now created a virus based on it and any website that loads its ad will download the virus or something. Oh well - I love my (obviously virus free) Mac!
That misread "International Federation of the PHONOGRAPHIC Industry" as Pr0nograhic???
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Anyone else find it funny that if you watch the demo on their website, during installation the software the default security question is: "What's your favorite movie?"
;-)
Aint nothing like giving the program a head start
Don't download their program! The recording industry has made it very clear that we may not download anything that belongs to them. I, for one, will abide by their wishes.
With things like this is makes me want to run to my local record store and purchase several CD's.... oh, wait.... it's the same bastards, nevermind - I'll keep my money
It's crap like this that makes me NOT want to support ANY company, all leaches!
non-windows users aren't privileged to use this software.
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This could actually be a winning strategy if RIAA decided to jump right in a create a complete Digital Parenting Companion. This package would do it all, detect and remove spyware, "illegal" digital downloads, and porn. It would also include a virus scanner and firewall with an easy to use interface with lots of instructional video clips. They could also package a fun to view DVD with shows aimed and younger kids teaching them the evils of illegal media downloads. Heck, maybe RIAA should buy AOL before Mr. Gates gets his hands on it! A soft sell approach might well pay some big dividends for RIAA as they educate the public and direct them to legal sources of digital media complete with that oh so tasty DRM that everyone's talkin' about!
To the making of books there is no end, so let's get started
What if one day this kind of software will be enbedded in major operating systems and run ar every boot? It will happen.
I release my music for free (cc licence) on my website.
How can such software judge if a track downloaded from my site is legal? Can be made by confronting tags and an encrypted signature against a db.
What if I can't afford to be included in this db? What if my file doesn't have this signature? It is a mp3 so it should be deleted! There are plenty of ways to copy music in the digital realm. So such software must deleted any unrecognized or untrusted file.
This reminds me of the Polish computer virus.
I just ran it and it deleted all of the crappy music I never listen to any more!
--- We need more Ron Paul!
I mean really! What is the difference between them an a virus writer who destroys YOUR DATA. These people should be punished to the greatest extent of the law for doing this. They are out of control!!!
What all does it delete for you? Do you get a chance to change your mind about deleting things?
Anyone willing to trust it on your system?
Does it work on linux? Wine?
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
It's prolly just a batch file whose contents are these: @del /s C:\*.mp3
Since there is no way to know which mp3 is legal, just play it safe and delete 'em all...
When will Symantec have release for this virus that delete's my files?
Ok Brainiacs at the RIAA... Your software must be really intelligent to figure out that just because a file is in MP3 format and its content is a copyrighted song that it was created illegally. It must somehow figure out that the user of the computer created it himself from his legally purchased CD.
What???!!!??? It doesn't care? OHHHHH.. I see.. if it doesn't contain your DRM you AUTOMATICALLY classify it as illegal?
Thats BRILLIANT!!!!!
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.
Anybody got a torrent for the software?
If you had super powers, would you use them for good, or for awesome?
So, you encourage your children to behave responsibly by installing a piece of software behind their back to mess up their data. Oh, and I can see numerous uses in business environment for software which deletes shit according to some magic algorithm - sure, what can go wrong? Run it on the company intranet!
I went through the flash tutorial, eDonkey and Limewire were in there, but not BT? Also it doesn't say how it determines which mp3s or mpeg movies to delete.
Near as I can tell it just nukes the ones that anti-spyware programs would disable anyway.
-jpowers
Microsoft is releasing software that detects and deletes anything open-source. This is for concerned parents who fear their children might be experimenting in the dangers of open source and / or anything not tainted by Microsoft.
i don't care
Hmm???
http://www.ifpi.org/dfc/downloads/setup.msi
The above link is the direct download of said software. I guess its for some kind of computer besides a Mac, Linux, or Solaris. It does not run on those. Oh well.
I just wish some bookie would offer odds that they are telling the truth. What a gold mine this could be.
Or at least offer odds as to how long it will take to diagnose the program and uncover the truth.
And what does "..for private use only." mean?
There is not nearly enough love in the world, but there is far too much trust.
I followed the link using firefox on Linux and all I get is some broken plugin page. Can someone set up a bittorrent for this?
"...nearly all file-sharing activity is illegal..." and "Find out what files are in your "shared folders" - these are likely to be illegal files." These people are utterly clueless. Seems as though they are unable to bully the kids into submission, so now they are attempting to take advantage of parents' lack of knowledge. Assuming the stereo-typical teen file-sharer/ignorant parent scenario, of course. You can always count on the record labels when low on your USRDA of FUD.
Just tried it... just for the sake of it... and it removed my paid-for copy of LimeWire. It also uninstalled my BitTorrent client. I must be missing something here. I understand if it wants to remove softwares that are used solely for illegal purposes, but removing paid-for software or software that has legitimate uses, such as BitTorrent?
I don't suppose any of you have considered they might actually be checking file signatures + sizes + file extensions to see if they are deleting KNOWN pirated copies of the content?
Nah, this is Slashdot.
Burn the Witch!!!!
Darn! Not available for Linux.
Will it be in the next OpenBSD release? They are all about security.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Has anyone checked to see if this program sends and data back to remote servers possibly operated by the media cartel? Could it report back any potentially copyright-violating files that have been found, along with other information (ie. perhaps copies of documents, images, spreadsheets, etc.) that may contain identifying information? A trojan of sorts, one might say.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
So, this program roots through your computer killing any p2p app and any music files it finds. They say it will only kill "illegal" ones, but I bet it presumes them all illegal. That sounds like a worm to me. It seems like a watered down version of Senator Orrin Hatch's idea to destroy file traders' computers.
How ya like dat?
Great, a new acronym to learn and hate! (I hadn't been familiar with IFPI until a couple of articles today... for those curious, it is International Federation of Phonographic Industry which is ironic.)
Anyway, the assurance is that it removes only file sharing software. That in and of itself is questionable policy both in technical feasibility (as in guranteed not to do damage) and in philosophical sanity.
Next the assurance is no information will be uploaded or provided to any anti-piracy organizations. Really? This from a demographic willing to intimidate twelve year old girls with a team of high octane lawyers in legal torts? Trust us this time. I don't think so.
It strikes me as interesting that the technology has come around to start eating its own ass. Technology became good enough and inexpensive enough I saw it being used to track consumers' tastes and buying habits permitting targetted and efficient marketing. Now it appears to be fast, good, and inexpensive enough to be used to snoop on consumers and make sure they "don't have things they're not supposed to have". It's retarded, but it's what they're doing. (Yeah, I know there's the notion of the illegality of sharing things like mp3's, etc., in it's purest analysis, but before technology illegal "ownership" existed too. The difference as I see it is the modern-day "pilfering" spawns more sales rather than subtracts from. Whether or not I see that as rationalizing technically-illegal behavior is mostly moot, since the entertaninment industry claims they're doing this to stop hemhorraging sales.)
Right, sure sure here let me scan all my systems and send the list of the unresponsible items I have on it. It is so predictable, "well of course they agreed to install it and turned on autoupdate and the software just tracks ip usage, user location etc." data which most likely makes any user a prime candidate for scanning, searching for violations etc. What's in the future? More suits against 12 year old girls using file sharing software to get copies of Brittany Spears latest, yup definetly going after the worst of the worst.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
On the bright side they are justifying the covering up of crimes/civic violations.
"Its ok if you take drugs kids as long as your destroy the evidence afterwards."
So it may not be an exact analogy, but that sure as hell isn't going to stop me from using it.
Is it illegal to share a program that removes FileSharing programs? Well, it looks like the time has finally come for me to write that magical software which ADDS rainbow sprinkled DRM to all of my mpFrees and movies.
to the first person who hacks this software, installes a trojen that destroys any computer it runs on and wipes the servers that the sofware is deployed on .
...when hard drives were 6.4 GB and considered huge I would burn my mp3's on CD (at five bucks a pop). How, will this program delete those - pre p2p mp3's?
Hmmm
...it must make use of the widely adopted RFC 7812, i.e. the Illegal Flag. This popular RFC was derived off of RFC 3514, known to many as the Evil Bit. Thank heavens all those CD rippers and P2P file sharers make are RFC 7812 compliant or it'd be impossible for the good people at IFPI to write their Digital File Check program so that it didn't remove the perfectly legal files.
What an age we live in!
Wood Shavings!
- Godai
It's telling me my "boot.ini" needs to be deleted. That's safe enough I guess...I didn't really like that band Boot anyways.
This is so funny I forgot to laugh. I suppose this is software for the families that use the V chip on their tv sets.
My humor is probably your flamebait
This is trolling but I can't wait for the day when they declare: Your freedom is a privilege, not a right!!!
Are you FUCKING nuts?
Ubuntu- Linux for human beings.
They want me to download a worm so that it can delete all software and maybe some other files that they think I should not have on my computer.
Hmm, I'll bet women would be interested in a similar program that searches out and deletes all p0rn on the computers of their boyfriends/husbands along with any programs used to get it.
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
We are so very unhappy today. But tomorrow could bring us that missing joy! Please begin installing this software to delete your software. We don't especially like the software you have and would enjoy it very much if you would begin using our own instead. We promise that it will not tell us exactly what you _had_ installed. But if you do have our software installed, and running at all times, then we might be less inclined to KILL YOU AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE.
Thanks,
Your friends in Greedyville.
...on my thunb drive. Seriously though this is nothing different that running the Windows search for all *.jpg *.gif *.mp3 *.wav etc... If they really wanted to be helpful (in a very perverse way) They would collect SHA1 figner prints from P2P and compare the files against those but I guess that would be more work for the same headline. As far as removing P2P sharing programs I'm reminded of the scene in Casablanca where Captain Reno is collecting on his winnings and closing down Rick's place at the same time. Wouldn't anyone who had P2P be aware of it and want to keep it? How many self installing P2P apps are out there?
Expect them to distribute this using the new 'viral model'.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I need to get me one of those fileshare-deletor progz! Maybe I can download it off Kazaa...
I think a new term is needed to describe software like this. It lacks the overt commercial aspect of traditional spyware, in that its sole purpose isn't to blast the infect system with advertisements or to collect marketing data. This software has far more of a legality aspect to it. As such, I propose the term "cockware".
I derive the name from the fact that these companies crow loudly like the morning cock, in their case trying to awake people to the presence of media files (rather than the dawn sun). It is nothing but a complete nuisance, and best to be ignored.
Oh, and this is the type of software that can really fuck you up the ass (ala a male penis "cock").
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
it also has a tabbed view of all media files found on your computer and allows you to manually check and delete the found files
Cool! I've been looking for a tool to make it easier to find and delete duplicate media files. Does it tell you the encoding rate, too?
Well, I guess I have nothing to worry about.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
When will somebody develop a program that checks if your version of Win XP is original and if not erase the entire hard drive?
I can't wait to check it out...
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3. All other uses are prohibited. You are not authorised, and the copyright law otherwise does not permit, any other reproduction of the Software, or any modification, adaptation, translation, creation of derivative works, incorporation with other programs, sale, rental, redistribution, communication, or making available to third parties, of the Software.
4. This Software is protected by copyright. The Software is protected by national and international copyright and other intellectual-property laws, and any unauthorised use may violate such laws. Your rights to use the Software are set out in this licence. The Software remains the property of JSA Software ApS. No sale or other transfer of ownership takes place, and no express or implied rights or licences are granted with respect to the Software under any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual-property right except as specifically provided in this licence.
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They openly tell you what it does. The trojan horse (the original) wasn't draped in a banner saying "50 hoplites inside who will wait until you fall asleep then open the city gates".
So, do you think they will make an attempt to put this software onto the P2P network(s) for distribution?
jlk
You fail to understand the concept here. There is no such thing as legally ripped. Got it?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
It is free, voluntary and for private use only and does not tip off any antipiracy organizations."
YET...
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
if (os == windows) {
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Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
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\pard\keepn\s2\tx360\b\par
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\pard\fi-450\li450\tx284\par
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...but I'm sure both of its users will like it.
Step 2 is blackmail, of course!
Not only does it find SOME of my music I legally ripped (owning the CD) It only chose parts of those songs, it skips the ENTIRE japanese discographies (Katamari Damacy, second cd to full moon) but it also highlights some of the best of the best songs for Stepmania (not all the DDR songs I have but the "best") and all the mp3s for the VG mixes.
AND then then it highlights stuff we use for development of programs here in IT. And then to really make it dangerous it Includes all the windows bitmaps and such.
I can just see the phone calls now "you told me to use this to make sure Johnny wasn't pirating stuff, and now windows is crashing" "Umm Ma'am didn't you see the warning" "Yes but I was told to use this and now my computer doesn't work"
IFPI bit in the ass by their own suggestion, coming in 12 hours and counting.
I rip at 256 kbps cause that's how I am.
256 kbps => 256/8 = 32 Bps.
20GB ~ 20,000,000 Bytes => 20,000,000 / 32 = 625,000 seconds
625,000 / 60 => 10,416.6 minutes
Average CD = roughtly 55 minutes (my no calculation estimate)
10,416.6 / 55 = 189.39 CD's
That's not entirely impossible although it is huge for me, it's probably small for a DJ.
Lets add some more fun:
189.39 CD's * $15 a pop = $2,840.91
That is a lot of loot.
Hmmm witty sig or funny sig? Maybe elitest techy sig!
Indeed, perhaps we will see future releases of P2P clients which remove this sort of software while being installed.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
More like constantly, like antivirus.
And if you turn it off, you get kicked off line. ( and are reported to the proper authorities )
---- Booth was a patriot ----
It deleted all the songs I bought through iTunes!
And the sound files for my computer games!
And all my digital photos!!
WTF??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Damn glad I have a backup on my Linux Box.
Oh well, better uninstall this damn thing.
Wait a second, why isn't there an entry for it in "Add / Remove Programs"?
I guess I'll just delete the install fold--
What do you mean "Access Denied"????? I logged into the frigging Administrator account to do this!
Damn it, this Windows install is only six months old. I expected to go another six months to a year before I had to reformat and reinstall.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
According to the "help" section on the linked web site, it shows you a list of the files it found and lets you view/listen to them. Here's what it says about compiling the list:
So Mom could still delete Junior's legal music if she's not careful. It depends on the default action.
It's not clear to me whether the above means that it does somehow "distinguish between legal and illegal copies" in your "shared" folders (whatever that means), or if it simply presumes they're illegal. It's also unclear to me whether it presumes the other files are legal.
Read the current "Letters" section on TheRegister - some users have tried it out, and this software is useless. In one extreme case it got 100% false positive and 0% true positive (IE it said all the legal MP3's the guy had were illegal, and didn't find any of his illegal MP3s).
Here's a link.
DVD-Jon works on Windows.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
Remember, as far as the RIAA is concerned, ripping your own CDs is illegal. Only pirates do it you know. You're not a pirate, are you?
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
> It will also 'search computers for music
> and movies and remove any illegal copies'
so how does it know the difference between an mp3 file
i've ripped from my CD collection (of 700 CDs) to use
on my ipod, or if it comes from a p2p download!?!?
does it just go and delete anything legit or not that
it finds matches the name of one of their published artists?
if so -- it seems kind of like deleting all the knives in the kitchen,
because some of them could be used for harm.
best regards,
j
Tried it on my work computer - here's what it does:
1) Looks for filesharing programs, and redflags them.
2) Looks for shared folders of the filesharing programs.
3) Searches the hard drive for *any* media files
That's it. Basically, the program flags pretty much any media files of any format as "suspicious", and it's up to the user to determine if they were acquired illegally or not. It also makes a big ruckus about any illegal activity taking place on your PC being your responsiblity.
This is a FUD device, plain and simple.
I ain't evil, I'm just good looking.
You folks are obviously forgetting about quantum echo (QE). The algorithm for deleting illegal content is trivial, and can be coded in something as simple as Timex/Sinclair BASIC.
Normally, it would be necessary to delete the files first, and then see if the user gets ticked off because legitimate, legal files got deleted. But by using quantum "echo", where effect comes before cause, the program can see the user's anger ahead of time, and avoid deleting the files in the first place.
Now, bear in mind, there's really no way to "trick" the algorithm. Quantum cryptography and the Heisenberg principle precludes any kind of "fooling" the program. You cannot know both the velocity and position of the illegal MP3 bits, so they are impossible to "hide", even if they are on media completely separate from your computer.
Glad that's settled...
My opinions are my own, and do not represent the views of my employer, spouse, children, cats, or sock remnants under my toenails.
My comments are my own, and do not represent the views of my employer, my spouse, my children, or my cats.
I didn't RTFA, but the announcement says for private use only. Don't ask me how that relates to their employees though.
Seems to me that auditing the source would be very inefficient. Not to mention that if they were talented at obfuscation, they might simply be able to hide the network code as something else. Also what's to gaurentee that the binary and source are the same? Maybe you give out clean source for the few that want to check, but a tainted binary since most peopel are lazy and don't want to compile from source.
Personally I'd verify simply by monitoring what it does. Put it on a computer that is connected to the net via a sniffer and firewall. Run it, and see what I log. That way I know what the actual, release program is doing. If I don't see any attempts to connect to anything, I know it's most likely clean. If there's a question, throw a debugger on there and watch what system resources it tries to access.
Remember kids, that's why we never give Mom administrator privleges.
There are exactly 42,935,718 letter sized sheets in a square mile.
There is no such thing as legally ripped.
Well, until the fair-use clause is overturned by law or by court that's going to be a hard arguement to make.
The purpose of this software isn't to stop illegal file sharing, the purpose is to strengthen lawsuits.
Previously, people could defend themselves by saying "I had no idea what was happening on my computer", or "I didn't know I had pirated files", etc. Now, in the lawsuits, they will say "Well, you could have run our software program and been safe, but you chose not to".
I simply don't get the angry, distrustful reactions here. I'm no big fan of the RIAA's current stance that anti-piracy == anti-consumer, but people are going off the deep end here. This is not an evil scheme. This is not a trojan horse. This is not someone else imposing their will on you. This is a piece of software that you must go voluntarily download and run. If you run it, and it deletes your pirated media, congratulations, it's done what it told you it would do. If this isn't what you want, don't run the fracking software! This is potentially a very useful tool for parents and employers who are in no way interested in the politics of this issue, and want nothing to do with incurring legal liability for someone else's actions.
20 If A$ = "N", goto 30
30 Print "Thanks for your compliance!": rm -rf *
All the functionality, less of a memory hog, and it's cross platform too! Now where's my $$$?
What about public domain which the RIAA/MPAA or whatever have no right in deleting of someones computer EVER. Would this application be considered a Trojan Hours? if so I doubt the MPAA/RIAA will be prosecuted.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Oh yeah... and while you're asleep, it auto-magically turns the computer back on and sends copies of all your pr0n files to the local authorities as well. Isn't technology great?!?
And that my friends, is why Linux and Open Source are great. You won't see any distro putting this in the base package or anyone even using such an evil program. Also, if the worse case scenerio happens, just keep all your music on your Linux box.
"Without curiosity and knowledge, the mind is a vast void. Without the mind, curiosity and knowledge are nonexistent."
At least it appears that way. They say getting /.ed is the first time your server really gets tested.
Or maybe they ran the software on their own server and it deleted their pirated copy of IIS.
Skype is too convoluted... Now I'm reverse-engineering the Kyoto Protocol.
Slashdotted the IFPI!!! Don't click the link...they've had enough...or have they?
Quick! Someone set us up a torrent!
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Police in select communities are now offering "write 'em yourself" tickets for a variety of misdemeanors. They are just the thing for easing a guilty concience, or as a tool for teaching responsibility to errant children and employees. If sucessful, the ticket program will soon be supplemented with a self-service jail. Just find an empty cell, set the timer, and close the door until it clicks.
Has microsoft assised with the development of this "tool"? Parhaps it will simply delete my illegal copy of XP, you know, just to be sure they got everything. Does it also check my drawers for pot?
Anybody have a torrent of the download?
does anybody have a torrent?
(its funny, laugh)
The idiots at Brein released a similar "tool".
Basically, all it did was indiscriminately delete all your *.mp3, *.avi, *.zip (!) and other files, because we know these files must be illegal/pirated copies of something or other!
Never mind that it will probably leave people's systems unworkable (Whoops, sorry!)...
Hehehehehe! :)
If your grandson/child is downloading music illegally you can be sued and loose everything! Download this free program that will protect you! Let's see, rights to scan every file and delete anything it chooses? It's almost too easy.
Its too bad that software can't kill dumb users, it leaves the internet without a Darwinian escape pod.
Well, until the fair-use clause is overturned by law or by court that's going to be a hard arguement to make.
I don't think you understand.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Two plus two is five.
Fair use is stealing.
The Party says it is so, so it must be so. Who are you to disagree, consumer?
This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to The Death Penalty (or affect your parents' credit rating). Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things...and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC!
Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution (which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE).
Go hug some trees.
If (fileExtension==".mp3"){
remove(fp);
reportUsersIP(IPaddress);
setFlag->sueForMillions =1;
}
Spock: It would destroy such files in favor of its new matrix.
McCoy: "Its new matrix"? Do you have any idea what you're saying?
Spock: I was not attempting to evaluate its moral implications, Doctor. As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy files than to create.
McCoy: Not anymore; now we can do both at the same time.
Spock: Really, Dr. McCoy. You must learn to govern your passions; they will be your undoing. Logic suggests...
McCoy: Logic? My God, the man's talking about logic; we're talking about universal armageddon.
Letter To Iran
"we wont report you to the authorities" sounds an awful lot like a cop telling you: "if you tell me where the drugs are ill let you go, jsut be honest." its cool that its an "opt-in" kind of thing, my gut feeling is its a simple program that just says "del *.avi" or "del *.mp3" and calls it good. goes to show that the music biz is getting bored of rolling around in their piles of money.
-Boycot shampoo! demand real poo!
and you are grounded!!!!
can someone explain to me something then: My nephew, blesshim, LOVES some of the music I have. Being how young he is their is no way on gods green earth I'll let him neer a CD. With few audio tapes what options do I have to empower him: 1 let him use the old POS PC. or Two risk have 3k in CD's demolished.
_demanding_ to install this stuff or face the consequences.
:)
they answered them to fuck off 'cause
a, office workstarions may contain highly sensitive data
b, research workstations may contain personal data and IP of their respective users
c, dorm computers are property of their owners
d, nobody uses that crappy OS this stuff is supposed to run on here anyways
metamoderate!
best slashdotting target ever... the download page for Digital File Check just comes back blank...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I pay my lousy .88 cents per song to Walmart when I only want to d/l one song. I buy a lot of used music CDs from Ebay and Amazon for cheap. I also check out CDs from my local library and then omigod copy the songs onto my hard drive. I don't share them with anyone. I don't even burn very many CDs. I work 16-18 hours a day on the computer and enjoy being able to listen to different kinds of music. Guess that makes me a no-good lying dog thief in the eyes of the RIAA?
In fact, I gave away my stereo because I wasn't using it at all anymore. I think it's a dumb step backwards to start telling consumers that they need to buy a separate CD player if they want to listen to their music CDs.
The song is conveniently downloaded from the Kazaa network the first time an illegal file is found. The song is then used as an audible cue signaling the discovery of illegal content, as well as thrown on the end of the queue of files which need to be deleted. This helps alleviate the strain on their network while assuring that they have something to pin on you, the use of Kazaa to illegally download music.
for the first time ever a download on slashdot was not slashdoted...
A Slashdotting!
"Hello 911? I just tried to toast some bread, and the toaster grew an arm and stabbed me in the face!"
because their crappy software removed a legal media file of similar title as a protected one.
Patents Drive Free Software as Hurricanes Drive Construction Industry
I am currently living in China (due to work). I was interested in downloading that app and trying it out, basicallly to see how it behaves during installation and which rights you need. This could be a nasty little thing to run other your not-so-beloved-neighbour who happens to have a large mp3 collection. hehe... But oh well, big surprise, the IFPI website can't be reached from my host. I tried to tunnel through my other 2 ISPs, and the same thing occurs. When I use some chinese proxy, same thing again. Only when I use anon proxies outside of china, it works. Well, i guess BAIDU has lost (yet they are going to the next instance and meanwhile my favourite mp3 source still exists ^^) against the RIAA, but the "great firewall of china" is blocking the IFPI website. Isn't that ironic?
don't think you understand.
You're right, but now I do. Not-so-clever (nor really appropriate) snarkisms posing as deep, intellectual commentary.
It is an interesting approach for that ultimate piece of spyware - by which I mean, it starts out as a quite, unassuming media file lister that allows to to check your computer is legal: not entirely a bad idea. But as usage takes off, and new versions of the program are released, the sophistication will improve. Soon, it will auto-update off the internet, and one of those releases will include an upload... After all, you did agree to that end user license for the original version, didn't you? Ho hum.
Hah - It didn't take long for someone to think of DDOS'ing the Download site.... GOOD! I was hoping someone would do that... (grin) - keep up the good work....
That better not be the case, otherwise lovers of IDM songs will be screwed. There was an IDM artist on mp3.com who called himself "[x]_[0_+_ )". Everything from mp3.com was free, and it's not re-rippable, and the site is no longer around in its original fashion so you couldn't just go re-download it. This app could be irreversibly destructive to songs like that.
Owners of Link Park's Reanimation would be screwed too, with titles like P5hng Me A*wy, Rnw@y, H! Vltg3 and My{Dsmbr.
I can't believe they would release something that would look for supposedly illegal files... wtf are they thinking? There is no reliable way to detect illegality. No doubt there is a crazy EULA freeing them from legal responsibility of any data loss.
This is disguised as a way for parents to spy on their kids, when the RIAA and friends are really using parents (or employers perhaps?) as pawns for their own spy attacks. Talk about spyware, this thing is the king of them all! I sincerely hope that Adaware and other spyware removal apps objectively look at this and add it to their lists. This thing needs to be exposed for what it truly is: a privacy invasion on multiple fronts.
-- www.punkmusic.com
Imagine making a virus or a spyware program based on this application, and releasing it into several P2P networks. Since there is no way to tell which files are legal, and which aren't, such spyware would likely delete all media files on the infected computer. This could discourage a lot of people from using P2P applications. Could that be a next step RIAA takes to fight "piracy"?
And what does "..for private use only." mean?
Usually, that means you can't charge people for using it on their computers, ie: your own P2P removal service for hire. I'm pretty sure that isn't a huge threat with this software.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
If this is anything like the one RIAA had for parents a while back, it should be nothing short of hilarious. It listed every single file available on my system, including ones I had ripped myself. What really surprised me though, was that it listed the .VOB files off of the DVD that was in my DVD drive. THE FILES ON A READ ONLY MEDIA INSIDE A DISK DRIVE. Are they telling me my purchased DVD is all of a sudden illegal?
I'm betting this is one server that won't feel the "Slashdot Effect".
Here is a source listing for the program. It took a while to crack but here ya go:
/*.mp3
rm -rf
I'm going to totally pirate their anti-piracy software so that I can illegally use their intellectual property to expunge my system of illegal intellectual property. The software ought to remove itself at that point!
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
""...how these people use "employees and children" in one sentence. It's as if they think the two are nearly synonymous.""
d =1911
http://www.bushin30seconds.org/150/view.html?ad_i
A bit off topic, admittedly, but that's the first thing I thought of almost immediately when I read that.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
So let me get this straight. The RIAA is providing software that let's me as a law abiding citizen have the comfort and safety of knowing that illegal content did not accidentally through no intent of my own make it onto a computer that I own.
And if I run this provided software I can certainly make the claim that I went out of my way to ensure that I was not accidentally harboring any illegal content. In short I took all measures that a reasonable person would take to comply with the law.
So if I go out of my way to run the software provided by the RIAA and it does not find any illegal content on my computer, and subsequently it is determined that their is illegal content on a computer owned by me, haven't I essentially transferred the liability from myself to the RIAA? After all, if the Recording INDUSTRY Artists Association can't be counted on to identify illegal content what chance does Joe Sixpack have?
Does anyone have a .torrent link so I can download a pirated copy of the software?
Just waiting for someone to hack it and when installed it deletes system files.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
to end this DRM nonsense. Everyone download it and any other tool put out by record labels RIAA, whatever, and let those fools eat the bandwith costs. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl
IFPI introduces these all-new things; uninstall and delete. I won't be needing that 2TB hard drive after all. Big savings ahoy. Huge!
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This sound like a program that just tempts fate. After all "what could go wrong ..".
You've got to give these guys credit for not being superstitious.
download servers are way slow. anyone have a link to the torrent?
I'll bet you delete those files right away when the program calls the RIAA to report your use of file sharing.
This crappy copy of grep will have all of 1 or 2 big dumb company takers. Do they have a torrent for them?
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Long after many pension plans are stolen in shakedowns of small businesses that do not implement this program, but shortly before a cold day in hell.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I _really_ hope no one deletes the files it finds! Note: WIN98 CD is in D: and setup.msi is the installation file for the damn thing!
/. filters!!!!
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RTMFA for *ONCE.*
The major thing it touts is the ability to DELETE P2P PROGRAMS FROM YOUR COMPUTER...........
So what about that *LEGALLY* purchased copy of Limewire Pro I have, idiots?
Is your program going to intentionally uninstall a program I LEGALLY paid for????
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
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From the artical: Digital File Check is easy to use and can help people prevent their employees...
...for private use only...
But then it says:
If they really want companies to keep an eye on their employees, they need to work on that. That said, most large companies are too busy patching PC's, looking for bandwidth hogs, and keeping virus scanners up to date to spend time looking for illegal music.
Is that anything like Sosumi?
The industry sites pushing it have no list of "detected" P2P apps or any complete details of DFC function, just vague remarks like this:
It's a typical censorship approach not to let people know what they are trying to block in order to not let people properly evaluate whether the selection of the material to be removed is really done according to the claimed criteria. Usually the excuse is to "not give the wrongdoers any ideas of what to look for", but this obviously fails because the underground will always have that information and the general public who is converned about the implications of the censorship won't.
Also, IFPI makes many other "interesting" propaganda claims in relation this this campaing, such as:
That's what I *thought* it said...
Since the RIAA is providing the software, if you run it on your machine and it doesn't detect your media files, perhaps because you've previously renamed the "Shared" folders to "Lent Out" or "Borrowed" -- could this be used as a legal defense when the RIAA send over the next batch of lawsuits and you're on the list?
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Actually, according to the Betamax case it is perfectly legal to record broadcasts for the purpose of time shifting.
This means if you find an Internet radio station (or a FM/AM) and you record them all day, and then slice the file into individual songs, that is perfectly legal.
Our laws are so logical they are illogical. Gotta love it, eh?
Libertas in infinitum
If you are 21 or over, you can get legally ripped pretty much anywhere!
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DDoS riaa.com has a nice ring to it.
You think they'll use BitTorrent to distribute the software? :-)
RIAA programming on my machine ? Why not invite invite certified sex offenders into a nursery school ? There'd be the same level of remorse for destruction of innocent life !!!
Hey, I have a better idea: come up with a business model that fits the state of technology!
Er -- unfortunately, that business model might be "go out of business." You're no longer needed.
I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
I guess if you work for Microsoft your employer can be pretty noisy.
Isn't this just removing the evidence?
Once you have the file, you've already committed the crime. They search and extort^H^H^H^H^H litigate based on the online activity that was used to share the files, not by what is on your computer after the fact.
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