Napster still in the run to be closed, is desperately seeking for a technology that will prevent users from swapping copyrighted songs.
This time they announce a new technology, fingerprinting, that should be more effective then Napster's current filtering method.
Napster, which was sued by the recording industry in December 1999 for copyright infringement, could not give a timetable for the implementation of the technology it licensed from Alexandria, Va.-based Relatable which generates ''fingerprints'' of individual sound recordings. |
Pat Breslin, chief executive officer of Relatable, said it will be challenging to deploy the technology, which identifies music based on recordings themselves and analyzes acoustical properties to identify songs.
``How long it will take remains to be seen,'' Breslin told Reuters. ``This is the first time a fingerprinting solution has been implemented on such a (large) scale and we have to refine and optimize it to the Napster network. There are many technological challenges.''
``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.
The companies hope the technology, named TRM or ``This Recognizes Music,'' will be implemented on Napster's current screening mechanism as well as a new commercial version it hopes to launch this summer with Bertelsmann AG (news - web sites) .
To me it sounds very simple to bypass this, because I would like to know what happens when you encrypt a file...
Source: dailynews.yahoo.com
