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IBM Anti-Music Piracy Technology
IBM has stated that they will be releasing a new version of their anti-music piracy software, upping the ante in the ever growing fight for a working digital rights management solution for the recording industry.
While exact details are not available at the time of this story, the service works in this manner. IBM’s new software solution still allows unlimited transfer between users, but placed in effect built-in restrictions. These “built-in restrictions” would permit the next person in line attempting to listen to the peer-to-peer or otherwise shared music to only play back the music once, or for the first 30 seconds of the song, a setting controlled by the digital music copyright holder of the music being shared.
The new software also features the ability to limit playback by region, much like that of current DVD technology. IBM is wise to admit that while the software offers quite a bit of that recording industry executives have been demanding in a copyright protective digital rights management software package, it is certainly not hacker proof.
The company has stated that is working with several companies the likes of Real Networks and MusicMatch Jukebox to offer built in plug-ins for direct sales and various payback options to copyright holders directly from the players in the future.
The question remains, will people accept this new technology or continue to rebel against any and all attempts to put the power of digital music distribution online back in the hands of the recording industry?
User Comments
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Q-Logic
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Date: January 22, 2001 @ 7:27 AM
I will. Sounds good. I want to be restricted. This will be another hopeless attempt. IBM is wasting their money. It's ashame that they don't have the balls to work with companies like Intel to make much better P2P technology. It would be much worth their effort if they did so instead of trying to develop technology that hinders people's ability to listen to music. |
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Q-Logic
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Date: January 22, 2001 @ 7:30 AM
hmmm, it did not add something after restricted. it was supposed to add "" I guess this message board does not like "" signs |
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Q-Logic
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Date: January 22, 2001 @ 7:31 AM
LOL. laughs sarcastically after restricted. |
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doobybrain
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Date: January 22, 2001 @ 1:36 PM
what is restricting the listening rights of the user going to do? i mean, if you can only hear the song once, then you really dont get to decide for yourself if the song is definitley good or definitely bad. for me, it usually takes a couple of hearings for me to decide if the track is good, and if i cant do this, then what next?
as for the other option of only having the other user listen to only 30 seconds of the track, thats hardly anything of the whole song. i know of some techno tracks that take a while to go into their main sound and 30 seconds will not justify for a "preview" of the song at all. as for other songs, some songs start out soft and slowly move up in tone, and if this is the case, this process usually takes about i'd say 10-15 seconds. in this case, you've already used up most of the time allowed. oh heck.
i dont think this will work. damn, why cant they all just go with normal P2P sharing ways instead of always trying to stop us from listening to music?
[doobybrain] |
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milladrive
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Date: January 22, 2001 @ 2:12 PM
Excellent points. |
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Anonymous
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Date: January 22, 2001 @ 2:21 PM
It takes my lifetime to sample a song and figure out if I really like it. I could get sick of it. This is why my music is free and legal. We're just deciding if we like it. :-) |
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babyraven
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Date: January 22, 2001 @ 2:24 PM
This sounds like too much of a pain in the ass.
If they made the process to pay for mp3 easier, i probably would be willing to buy them for a reasonable price. However, this sounds just waaay to complicated. Who wants to waste their time dling 30 seconds of a song? |
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Anonymous
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Date: January 22, 2001 @ 5:53 PM
What a waste of time and effort. If you can put it on your computer, you can pirate it. No protection will _ever_ work. |
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Anonymous
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Date: January 24, 2001 @ 12:38 PM
There will ALWAYS be piracy. Why not arresting people who ask money for CD's FIRST, instead of arresting people giving MP3's away for free? |
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