[ILUG] Eircom sued by RIAA.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Braun Brelin (bbrelin at gmail.com):

> I saw a story today on the RTE web site about Eircom being sued by the
> Irish recording industry association (or it's equivalent) for people
> using P2P for downloading music.  The industry wants Eircom to
> implement software from a company called "Audible Magic".  anyone know
> the inside technical details here?  

    "Audible Magic's CopySense, a network appliance product,
    examines network traffic at the content layer - that is, it
    analyzes the actual file transferred in an application-layer
    transaction. In order to determine whether the content is a
    copyrighted song, CopySense treats the content as audio and analyzes
    its acoustic properties. It examines only a small portion of the
    content, extracting an "acoustic fingerprint." This fingerprint is
    then matched against the fingerprints of copyrighted musical works
    in a pre-compiled database. [...]

    Audible Magic's technology can easily be defeated by using one-time
    session key encryption (e.g., SSL) or by modifying the behavior of
    the network stack to ignore RST packets.

http://w2.eff.org/share/audible_magic.php
http://w2.eff.org/share/audible_magic.php?f=audible_magic2.html

Lying thugs.  Worse, actually:  Lying henchmen for lying thugs.

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