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July 07, 2003
Napster's Fanning Gets in on Fingerprinting
Joseph Menn at the LA Times has an article about a new, hush hush service that Shawn Fanning is getting behind:
"Fanning's new program relies on audio fingerprinting that identifies every song being offered by users on a file-sharing network. As the user submits the song, it would be checked against a database at Fanning's firm to see whether it is copyrighted. If it is, the song couldn't be distributed without payment."Audio fingerprinting technology is not new, but it's an extremely promising and necessary area to explore for P2P. If we're going to take a stab firly compensating artists for work traded on P2P nets, we have to know what's changing hands (or hard drives).
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