User: three14

This is basically CDDB

On: Windows Tracks CDs & DVDs You Watch

All the article says is that Windows Media Player does a CDDB lookup when it plays a CD, and caches the result.
If you look in your home directory on your Linux box, you'll probably find a similar cache.
Someone just noticed that you can reconstruct people's listening habits from their CDDB lookups - no big deal.

Detour Project at U of Washington

On: Whatever Happened to Internet Redundancy?

There's a research project called Detour at the University of Washington to look into fixing this kind of thing.

The only working link I can find right now is

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/savage/papers /I EEEMicro99.pdf