Digital fingerprint aims to cut down piracy
News Digital song-tracking company Audible Magic is striking a deal with Universal Music Group for song information, getting another leg up in its quest to be able to identify -- and potentially block -- music as it is transferred online.
[August 12, 2003, 10:30]
Software stops illegal song trading
News Created by software firm Audible Magic and backed strongly by the Recording Industry Association of America, the song-filtering software has already triggered interest in Washington, D.C.along with strong scepticism in the peer-to-peer world and...
[April 21, 2004, 15:20]
RIAA backs song-identification firm
News The group says Audible Magic's technology, or something like it, should be adopted by file-swapping companies if they are serious about not supporting widespread copyright infringement. Audible Magic has been making the rounds of Washington, D.C...
[March 3, 2004, 11:25]
Anti-P2P software 'spies' on user data
News For much of the last year, the University of Wyoming and a company called Audible Magic tested technology that looked inside students' file swaps for copyrighted music, with an eye toward ultimately blocking the transfer of such material.
[September 11, 2003, 10:45]
Kazaa forced to block search terms
News However the Sharman parties' legal team claimed audio fingerprinting technology from United States company Audible Magic, would provide more effective filtering. Audible Magic involves getting the fingerprints for all songs," said a QC acting for...
[November 25, 2005, 8:35]
P2P firms claim filtering 'impossible'
News A company called Audible Magic, which installs song-recognition software inside Internet service provider networks, with the promise of identifying and blocking trades of copyrighted songs, demonstrated its software to members of Congress and the...
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
Is this the future for legal P2P?
Blog The idea, it seems, is for the ISP to use deep packet inspection (DPI) to monitor all the user's P2P activity - it uses this, along with a system called Audible Magic, to identify which songs are being acquired or sent, thereby figuring out which...
[August 13, 2008, 15:23]
Virgin Media to monitor traffic for file-sharing
News Detica is currently testing different music-fingerprinting products, including Shazam, Gracenote, Digimark and Audible Magic, to gauge whether the file contains licensed or unlicensed data. Virgin Media is to monitor its customers' data packets in...
[November 26, 2009, 14:14]
Government hints at ISP file-sharing crackdown
News Around the same time, a Belgian court ordered an ISP in that country, Scarlet, to do just that using systems from a company called Audible Magic. The UK government may crack down on ISPs over illegal file-sharing, a senior government official has...
[October 25, 2007, 12:39]
P2P group seeks cross-industry detente
News Finally, file-identification systems, such as those now being developed by Audible Magic, would be installed in Internet service providers. But in their bid to win respectability -- as well as economic and legal breathing room -- that's just what...
[October 8, 2003, 15:25]
