Because of the Napster case several distributers of music, video, research reports, and other content are finding new ways of protecting their rights. Search queries from any program like Napster are now first checked before being executed. So if you search on 'Britney Spears' (why the hell would you want that?? ) they first contact a database to check if that song is protected. They also check alternate spellings
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Following a court order to filter all copyrighted materials out of its music-sharing service, Napster is turning to Gracenote, a vendor that maintains a database of names and authors of copyrighted musical works, complete with alternate spellings. |
When Napster users want to share songs, Grace-note compares song names and other identifiers with information in its own databases as well as in those operated by the Recording Industry Association of America and other music clearinghouses to determine whether it is a copyrighted work. Songs that are protected by copyrights are blocked.
Other content providers are following suit to block illegal distribution of their material.
Filmspeed, an Internet distributor of digital movies, has turned to server software from Microsoft, called Windows Media Rights Manager 7, as a way to tag content files before they're distributed.
Never heard of Windows Media Rights Manager before... what is it? Anyone an idea?
Source: Techweb
