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BayTSP vs. Online Music Pirates?
BayTSP, has announced a new product, "BaySpider", designed to pinpoint online piracy 24-hour, 7-day a week.
BayTSP stated that it's patent-pending "Adaptive Search Technology" will scan the net for piracy, identifying web sites, news groups, and peer-to-peer group which it finds in infringement of copyright law.
While exact specifications on how "BaySpider" works has not been announced, it has been reported that once "BaySpider" id's a URL of copyright infringement, a digital snapshot of the URL is collected and time stamped automatically. A infringement notice is then sent to the administrator of the URL and the ISP hosting the URL. This process will be repeated to check if the copyright material in reference on the URL is present after the notification and will continue until any reported copyright violations are removed.
The software most likely works much like the software utilized by EMusic recently to scan Napster for copyright infringement, relying on "acoustic fingerprinting" techniques to identify digital music online. Similar software has been under development by TunePrint, CantaMetrix, along with SonicAgent.
User Comments
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dwaveh
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 10:35 AM
hrrrm... isnt there some sort of law which protects unauthorized search's of a computer system?
Just like aaaallllllll the other programs ment to do this -- it wont work ;P |
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Anonymous
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 10:43 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHA! *ahem*
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himynameiznate
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 12:24 PM
Whats funny is the fact that its not going to do anything about it besides keep sending notices. Oooooh. Thats like the hall monitor in school telling you to walk slowly. Well, I guess they gotta say their trying something.
Nate
http://www.hotspots.cjb.net |
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Chad
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 4:38 PM
This system includes acoustic fingerprinting technology? Gees.. a shame when their VC runs out... |
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Q-Logic
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 4:51 PM
Gee, I see these type of companies springing up everywhere. Too bad we will never hear of these guys again. |
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milladrive
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 6:24 PM
*head still spinning* |
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RyanS
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 6:58 PM
This isn't right. |
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homogenuity
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 11:21 PM
more power to them
i think it would be fun to live in an orwellian dystopian hell.
people learn through adversity, not through comfort. the only things good for people are the things that are bad for them.
:> :> :> |
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Anonymous
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 11:26 PM
haha, too funny |
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-X-
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Date: December 21, 2000 @ 11:44 PM
Chad, as I said in the report, I am not positive this is how it works, but I speculate it is. |
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milladrive
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Date: December 22, 2000 @ 10:36 AM
Heh, we already live in an orwellian hell. Do we really need the dystopia? |
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quantmzero
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Date: December 22, 2000 @ 11:35 PM
"people learn through adversity, not through comfort. the only things good for people are the things that are bad for them."
love that quote. |
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vaeltaja
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Date: December 23, 2000 @ 7:20 AM
quantmzero, love that quote too :) I think that haven't they still figured out how HUGE the Internet actually is?!
~ Where the are Dreams, there are always Dreamers ~ |
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homogenuity
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Date: December 24, 2000 @ 1:23 AM
you can never have too many 'ian's |
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cottulookn
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Date: December 24, 2000 @ 2:49 PM
maybe instead of sending a notice to your web server, they will send the BayTSP secret police to your house, drag you and your family out into the street and beat you. then they will burn down your house for all your neighbors to see what happends when you enjoy someone else's music. this is stupid.
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bowman
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Date: December 24, 2000 @ 5:12 PM
The internet is big... No prob. It's not going out over Yahoo, moron, it's only scanning networks such as gnutella, napster, direct connect, certain IRC channels, aimster and so on. So yes they can do it and no the scope of what they are doing isn't really very large when you look at how many page submissions EXCITE has to sort through a day.
Law against them doing it. It's not doing anything your peer to peer software isn't doing, infact it's just mimicking it. Say you post Metallica, One. It just does a search and when it finds it, sends a note to your ISP. By law your ISP MUST INVESTIGATE and if your a bad boy, cancel your service and notify the local authorities. That law was intended to help keep kids safe from stalkers... Now it keeps Bill Gates safe from us.
What's seems awfully lame to me is IMAGINEWARES.COM has been giving away software for what, 2 to 4 years and it's still there today... Along with 500+ others software sites that are traceable with Neotrace for Christ's sake. Then there is the fact that Direct Connect has been up for about 1 year and a simple search for photoshop 6.0 will bring up about 30 hits at any given time (wink)(wink) and the connection speeds are from 30-80k a sec. (wink)...
If they really gave a crap, they would have brought Imaginewares down 2 years ago. And if AOL has 15 million users and 1 out of ten has an illigal copy of Micheal Bolton then AOL will claim bankruptsy with a loss of 1/10th of their revenues and 400 million in investigative work. And Pacbell, Verizon, @HOME, Media 1, Earthlink... I don't think so... It was a wonderful thought...
Besides, I use Netzero (With the data in the JPEG.DLL file (from the BIN directory) deleted so I don't get banners... so I could create a new user name daily...))(Also if your doing the same thing and it hasn't worked lately, use your old FREEI.NET name and password, ie. jay.ca and password.)
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Chad
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Date: December 24, 2000 @ 9:23 PM
I'm not to sure THEY know how it works heh... |
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Chad
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Date: December 24, 2000 @ 9:25 PM
That is why everyone should invest money in a black muscle car, leather suit, and a double barrel sawed off shot gun so we can be prepared to kick ass Mad Max style. |
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thesb
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Date: December 25, 2000 @ 12:28 AM
This is silly, The best it could do is scan anonymous ftp sites maybe a few that it knows how to search from because I doubt the software is smart enough to fill out a form for a username and password, or a search box to find the files and then check if they are actually pirated software... its nearly impossible to do with any kind of accuracy.. "pinpoint online piracy"? bwhaahahaha
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thesb
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Date: December 25, 2000 @ 12:32 AM
Ha, it says on their site that their software has found 24,621 infringements since june, 1, 2000. I think any of us... even if we were as lame as BayTSP could find that many in a week. |
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