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Napster to do Fingerprinting
Record labels and the RIAA were forcing Napster to make a move on their current stand over blocking copyright-infringed songs. The pressure worked because early today Napster Inc. announced it licensed privately held Relatable's acoustic fingerprinting technology to help filter songs in compliance with their injunction.
Relatable, an Alexandria, Virginia based company, is a leading provider of advanced content identification and personalization technologies for the digital delivery of audio and video content. Relatable technologies help create a new level of personalized commercial entertainment services.
"Digital fingerprinting technologies are developing rapidly, and Relatable's new acoustic fingerprinting technology shows great promise. We are now working closely with Relatable's engineers to coordinate their technology with our file filtering systems; we hope they will be a substantial part of our overall filtering solution," said Hank Barry, chief executive of Napster.
Napster officials also added that they hope to incorporate Relatable technology into Napster's current file screening system and into a new membership service which can hopefully launch this summer.
User Comments
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Scyth
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Date: April 20, 2001 @ 12:54 PM
The fact that this fingerprinting will have to be done client-side seems to be its weakness. Any guesses about how long it'll be before some cracker manages to overcome it?
Also, does this mean that Napster will be closing its servers to third-party clients? If so, how is that going to be enforced? I suppose an encrypted protocol is an option. This may mark the divergence of Napster and OpenNap. |
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Q-Logic
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Date: April 20, 2001 @ 1:18 PM
Once again, Napster should shutdown. It's not like they have a service anymore. LOL. They have their servers open but everything is blocked. What type of service is that? pfft |
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Frawgster
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Date: April 20, 2001 @ 1:41 PM
I smell...yes...that's it! Bankruptcy!
What does this fingerprinting mean for OpenNap and all other Napster servers (PoweNap, etc.)?
-Frawg- |
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smelv1n
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Date: April 20, 2001 @ 3:36 PM
i don't know what they're trying/have been doing, because i can still get whatever copyrighted song i want, with no troubles. |
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a_3_Headed_M...
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Date: April 20, 2001 @ 5:54 PM
I'm the same.........anything i want, i can still get using winMX, sometimes on Napster sevrers, sometimes on other sevrers, but it's still always there |
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rob_n
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Date: April 20, 2001 @ 8:47 PM
Man, heres the way i see it yo, just pick up ya mouse and dial in www.napigator.com and download the app yo!! Now i'm off to go smoke a big bowl of lucky charms! I have to be honest here...this article is not very interesting...sorry :) Napster this, Napster that..blah blah blah |
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Exxtreme
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Date: April 20, 2001 @ 10:26 PM
I always thought it would be impossible to code something which could recognize the song by looking at its signal... isn't this to broad to be possible? i don't understand how this could work... do you guys think this can work?
Now this will be a huge step to napster if it proves to work... AND we need freenet done as soon as possible now... Musiccity, openap servers... i'd say these are all temporary solutions and will most likely fail in the long term ... |
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Heidi
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Date: April 20, 2001 @ 11:33 PM
Do you ever have anything nice to say?
~Heidi |
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santy70
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Date: April 21, 2001 @ 6:40 AM
more boring stuff on napster servers. all you gotta do is get napigator from napigator.com and connect your napster program to an unfiltered server- so why all the fuss on filters, pigencoders, fingerprinting etc? cmon folks.. get smart.. |
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yellowbeard
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Date: April 21, 2001 @ 3:51 PM
yea who cares. this will not have any effect on the opennap servers because napster does not manage them. just download napigator and use the same program (napster) that you know and love to access servers that have just as many people and songs available as napster used to. |
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Anonymous
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Date: April 22, 2001 @ 1:34 PM
Napigator is old shit, get WinMx, it connects to all the opennap servers that napigator does, except it does it at the same time!
So when you do a search, you get results from all servers at once. Go to www.winmx.com
As far as the article is concerned, fuck Napster.
They have turned on the entire P2P community, in a desperate attempt to capitulate to the fucking RIAA.
I can't wait for them to start charging, so that in a week they will be prominently displayed on www.fuckedcompany.com.
BTW, this site has really gone to shit, IMO. |
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rob_n
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Date: September 25, 2001 @ 5:09 PM
I'm sorry if i don't bow down to you ;) |
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