And frankly it's quite sad that many of these people will allow their networked lives to become that much more decentralized. Meanwhile I'm switching to Diaspora where I actually get to control my information.
As it's been mentioned, MD5 would not work. There is no surefire way to tell your tracks are "illegally" downloaded or not. However there are several telltale signs on many illegally downloaded songs that you could use to help narrow down your search for them so that you could cherry-pick the rest. If I was to write this program, I would probably make a tier of levels of likeliness of a file being pirated. For this example I'll have a system based on integers where a higher number is more likely to be pirated. 0 would be neutral and negative would be unlikely to be pirated.
I would start by filtering out everything that you know for sure is legal. For me, that would mean all vorbis files,.wma (when I used to rip from Windows), FLAC, aac, and any other free codecs not commonly used for piracy. All these files get their likelihood variable decremented by 5 or maybe filter them out altogether based on a setting. It's worth noting that 99% of all your illegally downloaded songs will be in MP3 format.
Next, I would filter out by comments tags. Many distributors like Amazon include a non-drm comment in the ID3 tag. Filter all those out or subtract from their likelihood. If you ever include your own comments in your files, filter those as well.
Now you've gotten most of the obviously legal files out of the way. The next part will be to filter out the likely pirated music from the rest. The user would have the discretion of choosing his/her tests as they see fit. For this, I would probably increment the likelihood variable by one for each matched test.
Example Tests:
1. Low bitrate? (128kbs) to filter out most of the old crappy pirated downloads.
2. Lowercase ID3 tags? Pirated downloads often have typos.
3. Missing artwork?
4. Sketchy ID3 comments (t0rr3nted by r1ppErZ, demonoid, lots of things you could search for)
5. Missing ID3 tags (no album name, unknown artist, etc.)
6. Matching filename with ID3 tags. Often people fix their pirated tags, but the misspelled filename stays the same.
7. Subtract likelihood if bitrate is what you normally rip at
8. Song in incorrect folder. I normally put my tracks in a directory structure of artist/album. You could test the ID3 tags to the directory structure.
9. Interface with MusicBrainz and scan songs for correct tags, correct song length, and if MusicBrainz can even find it.
By no means is that all the tests you could do. Next you would list all the files high to low in a nice format for the user so that he/she could easily spot the pirated music. This solution is obviously quite preliminary and could definitely be refined, but you get the basic idea. The whole point is to make the user's task of finding and marking the pirated software much easier (and I'm sure in easily less than an hour you could find all your pirated music with such a program).
Welcome to the club. We have many options available. Extremely cheap, high capacity, super-crash-splash-resistant flash-drives (key-ring included!), portable hard-drives, SD-cards (32 Gigs for phones these days?!). All options are always locally available, very reliable, and highly portable. Oh, did we mention quite safe from public consumption?
Jabber alone is one of the biggest OSS failures we've ever seen, behind maybe only Diaspora.
You're an idiot. Bringing in Diaspora only makes you look like a kid who reads feeds and tries to generalize some crappy opinion out of it. Diaspora is open-alpha software. It's open-heart surgery and obviously not finished. Go check out their Github and you'll see an ever increasing amount of commits daily, and see that it's easily in the top-ten most viewed repositories. It's user-base is expanding quite rapidly as they plow through features and bugs. Do your homework you anonymous loser.
I wouldn't say ill-gotten. Bitcoin is another form of investment, even if it is kind of stupid. He took his risk even though it doesn't seem like it was that much, and was duly rewarded (and then screwed). Accusing him of being a fraudster is completely unfair. Do you make fun of rich investors who spend enormous amounts of money on small startups? They are different kinds of investments, but an investment is an investment no matter what the kind, and this just seems to be an unfortunate loss he couldn't have predicted.
"Apple is proud to announce the iPhone 5. With a 64 core processor. That's 32 times any available phone on the market. And that means you can multitask like never before. At 32 times the speed."
I can just see it now...God save us. From the consumers.
And before any fanboi gets riled up, any phone company could do it. I just see Apple doing this first.
true (and true to some of the other responses to this post). It was perhaps one of the biggest decisions of our founding fathers to effectively create a "winner-takes-all" political system. In some other Democratic countries, you get represented more evenly by the actual percentages of population vote.
Oh the horror! The first link is using a flash based document viewer! It's running like a slug on my browser, and I'm also wondering why any sane programmer would code such a monstrosity over just distributing a PDF? Oh wait, it's the FBI...
You need configurability? I'd ditch KDE, GNOME, etc. Use screen. If you can master the terminal you have given yourself almost ultimate configurability. By nature terminal apps are more configurable than GUI apps.
Have to have a GUI (perhaps for web browsing or skype) but want to keep your configurability? Use awesome window manager.
So how is Google not contradicting themselves when they say they are against software patents and they are patenting algorithms? Is it that they are patenting the algorithms and not the software in which they implement the algorithms? I don't know much about this stuff and I'm sure there is someone on Slashdot who could explain this further.
I know I'm generalizing, but I feel as a whole, our government doesn't do a great job of promoting education, nor does it allocate nearly the amount of resources and money toward education as they could and should. Our defense budget is way higher than the education budget. In 2010 our defense budget was $663.7 billion vs $46.7 billion for the department of education. Even the Department of Veteran Affairs was allotted a larger budget than Education. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget
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I give you....MOD 10!
And frankly it's quite sad that many of these people will allow their networked lives to become that much more decentralized. Meanwhile I'm switching to Diaspora where I actually get to control my information.
I would start by filtering out everything that you know for sure is legal. For me, that would mean all vorbis files, .wma (when I used to rip from Windows), FLAC, aac, and any other free codecs not commonly used for piracy. All these files get their likelihood variable decremented by 5 or maybe filter them out altogether based on a setting. It's worth noting that 99% of all your illegally downloaded songs will be in MP3 format.
Next, I would filter out by comments tags. Many distributors like Amazon include a non-drm comment in the ID3 tag. Filter all those out or subtract from their likelihood. If you ever include your own comments in your files, filter those as well.
Now you've gotten most of the obviously legal files out of the way. The next part will be to filter out the likely pirated music from the rest. The user would have the discretion of choosing his/her tests as they see fit. For this, I would probably increment the likelihood variable by one for each matched test.
Example Tests:
1. Low bitrate? (128kbs) to filter out most of the old crappy pirated downloads.
2. Lowercase ID3 tags? Pirated downloads often have typos.
3. Missing artwork?
4. Sketchy ID3 comments (t0rr3nted by r1ppErZ, demonoid, lots of things you could search for)
5. Missing ID3 tags (no album name, unknown artist, etc.)
6. Matching filename with ID3 tags. Often people fix their pirated tags, but the misspelled filename stays the same.
7. Subtract likelihood if bitrate is what you normally rip at
8. Song in incorrect folder. I normally put my tracks in a directory structure of artist/album. You could test the ID3 tags to the directory structure.
9. Interface with MusicBrainz and scan songs for correct tags, correct song length, and if MusicBrainz can even find it.
By no means is that all the tests you could do. Next you would list all the files high to low in a nice format for the user so that he/she could easily spot the pirated music. This solution is obviously quite preliminary and could definitely be refined, but you get the basic idea. The whole point is to make the user's task of finding and marking the pirated software much easier (and I'm sure in easily less than an hour you could find all your pirated music with such a program).
Does the Zune support iPods?
What are you smoking?
Welcome to the club. We have many options available. Extremely cheap, high capacity, super-crash-splash-resistant flash-drives (key-ring included!), portable hard-drives, SD-cards (32 Gigs for phones these days?!). All options are always locally available, very reliable, and highly portable. Oh, did we mention quite safe from public consumption?
Jabber alone is one of the biggest OSS failures we've ever seen, behind maybe only Diaspora.
You're an idiot. Bringing in Diaspora only makes you look like a kid who reads feeds and tries to generalize some crappy opinion out of it. Diaspora is open-alpha software. It's open-heart surgery and obviously not finished. Go check out their Github and you'll see an ever increasing amount of commits daily, and see that it's easily in the top-ten most viewed repositories. It's user-base is expanding quite rapidly as they plow through features and bugs. Do your homework you anonymous loser.
I wouldn't say ill-gotten. Bitcoin is another form of investment, even if it is kind of stupid. He took his risk even though it doesn't seem like it was that much, and was duly rewarded (and then screwed). Accusing him of being a fraudster is completely unfair. Do you make fun of rich investors who spend enormous amounts of money on small startups? They are different kinds of investments, but an investment is an investment no matter what the kind, and this just seems to be an unfortunate loss he couldn't have predicted.
have you looked into dual-citizenship?
Linux ftw. I had been on Win7 and it wasn't working on Chromium. Later I booted to Ubuntu and it worked fine on Chromium. No idea why.
been done bud: http://www.uzbl.org/
Chromium bleeding edge.
I'm something.
doesn't work on a year old integrated graphics card (even with an i3 processor). What do you have to have to run it?
Can we get a Slashdot survey on this? Favorite alternative Skype software?
Here is a list of open source projects for telephony and video from the FSF. Help out if you can. http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/
Newsflash: AMD designs even faster, 4-D Transistor!
"Apple is proud to announce the iPhone 5. With a 64 core processor. That's 32 times any available phone on the market. And that means you can multitask like never before. At 32 times the speed."
I can just see it now...God save us. From the consumers.
And before any fanboi gets riled up, any phone company could do it. I just see Apple doing this first.
true (and true to some of the other responses to this post). It was perhaps one of the biggest decisions of our founding fathers to effectively create a "winner-takes-all" political system. In some other Democratic countries, you get represented more evenly by the actual percentages of population vote.
No! Even better! I bet we could convince them to open source it!
Two things.
a. I thought slashdot didn't edit articles. I'm obviously wrong.
b. This smells of anonymous....
This is Sony. We're good at law suits.
Oh the horror! The first link is using a flash based document viewer! It's running like a slug on my browser, and I'm also wondering why any sane programmer would code such a monstrosity over just distributing a PDF? Oh wait, it's the FBI...
You need configurability? I'd ditch KDE, GNOME, etc. Use screen. If you can master the terminal you have given yourself almost ultimate configurability. By nature terminal apps are more configurable than GUI apps.
Have to have a GUI (perhaps for web browsing or skype) but want to keep your configurability? Use awesome window manager.
So how is Google not contradicting themselves when they say they are against software patents and they are patenting algorithms? Is it that they are patenting the algorithms and not the software in which they implement the algorithms? I don't know much about this stuff and I'm sure there is someone on Slashdot who could explain this further.
wish I had mod points here..
I know I'm generalizing, but I feel as a whole, our government doesn't do a great job of promoting education, nor does it allocate nearly the amount of resources and money toward education as they could and should. Our defense budget is way higher than the education budget. In 2010 our defense budget was $663.7 billion vs $46.7 billion for the department of education. Even the Department of Veteran Affairs was allotted a larger budget than Education. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget