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Story: RIAA backs song-identification firm

Posted by: Rachel Harding (Wednesday 3 March 2004, 4:35 PM)

Well, this is all good and dandy, but if my understanding of this technology is correct, we already have a multitude of -easy- acceptable ways to go about defeating this, and any enterprising hacker or file-trader would easily be able to get around it.

1) Determine two periods in the middle of the song, and have a program insert silence, noise, or even the melody of another song. Share file, it bypasses filters, on the other side, a person uses the same program to remove the inserted noise.

2) Simply rip albums as a whole, and repeat the process as an interlaced album, with the tracks following a set pattern but every second of song is a different track, have it reassembled on the client side.

3) ... Ya know what? if I gave away all the secrets, then they'll find ways to block those too. But just keep in mind, you can't control it, stop trying, society as a whole is smarter then a few companies, and what society wants, they will create a way to get.