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Saturday, May 08, 2004
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A new patent aims to make sharing music harder
In the wake of the new format for MP3s to be encoded with a copyright protection code, a University of Tulsa professor and graduate student have devised a way to "spoof" music files on P2P networks.
From WIRED, "A computer science professor and graduate student have been awarded a patent for a method of thwarting illegal file sharing on peer-to-peer networks by flooding the network with bogus files that look like pirated music.
The software creates bogus files with attributes -- such as file names and description tags -- that make them look like the real thing, but they are in fact white noise, low-quality recordings or advertisements to buy the song. What's more, the software sends out thousands of decoys to frustrate P2P users with fruitless downloads."
"'It's built off the basic idea of injecting alternative content or decoy media into peer-to-peer networks as a way of hiding pirated media that's being shared illegally,' Hale said. 'It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.'
Artists who want to share their music on P2P networks wouldn't be affected, he said. The content owners could designate only particular files for spoofing."
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