aradian used our newssubmit to tell us that the controversial Australian file sharing network Altnet has moved peer-to-peer a step closer to legitimacy with file identification technology designed to stop piracy:
Altnet - which piggybacks Australian-owned peer-to-peer network, KaZaA - has hired well-known technologist and investor Ron Lachman as chief scientist, licensing his Truenames system to better identify its files. Truenames - known in the peer-to-peer community as hashing - assigns a unique number to each file by multiplying its size by a patented algorithm. |
The move could help reassure the music industry Altnet is serious about stamping out piracy in file sharing.
Altnet offers copyright-protected, authorised music and videos for a fee, competing with its host network and other file sharing systems, many of which offer pirated content uploaded by users.
You can read the complete article on the Australian IT website.
Source: Australian IT
