Loudeye joins spoofing wars
p2pnet.net News:- Loudeye bought p2p scalp-hunter Overpeer in March and must now develop a positive cash-flow.
It’s decided to get the ball rolling with guarantees that its new Overpeer Titanium Service is 99% effective in, “preventing the illicit sharing of digital media across peer-to-peer networks”.
Ninety-nine percent, huh?
Pretty good.
Not only but also, it says it can handle piracy protection for everyone – “music, film/video, game and software industries.
Has anyone told Mr X over at the BSA?
Anyway, Loudeye is going to do this by spamming p2p networks with custom-built junk disguised to look like genuine files.
When someone does a search for content protected by Loudeye, its software fills up their search screens with its own data, Loudeye vp and digital media asset protection boss Marc Morgenstern is quoted as saying in a TechNewsWorld item here.
“Only they appear to come from thousands of different peers,” he told TechNewsWorld.
The results are disguised to look like genuine search results. “Every aspect of the display is disguised, from the title to the size to the speed to the username to the hover information – everything that you could possibly imagine.”
The idea, he told John P. Mello Jr, is to make the displays generated by Loudeye as tantalizing to a would-be buccaneer as possible.
“Moreover, Morgenstern said, Loudeye’s software can give its phony search results priority over other results so that they will be displayed more prominently on a pirate’s screen. For every 100 persons searching for a title protected by Loudeye, 99 will receive the company’s counterfeit search results, he claimed.”
It’s called spoofing and the movie folks are at it too, loading p2pnetworks with fake movies anyone with a modicum of common sense can spot immediately.
And it’s all such a waste of time.
Peer-to-peer applications are, by their very nature, constantly evolving and the people who put them together have been running rings around the entertainment industry since Day One.
This isn’t about to change.
One of these days the Corporate Community will wake up.
May 31st, 2004 at 11:51 pm
oh gawd, I see another virus vs anti-virus battle beginning here. Even if it is 99% effective (which I doubt) it’ll only be that way until the next release of P2P software. Plus, can’t these jerks get litigated for breach of software license when they use the P2P software in that manner??
Kill all P2P?? Why is it you suppose that RIAA et al not only want to kill copyright infringment on p2p but P2P apps/networks themselves??
Why it’s because eventually artists will wake up to the fact that they can cut the bloodsuckers right out of the loop and distribute w/out them, now that possibility is a ways off right now, but best to eliminate any possibility of it happening, and to do that they have to destroy or control the channels of distribution. Therefore all P2P nets must be quashed, unless RIAA endorsed (owned). They are pathetically transparent in their fear.
June 1st, 2004 at 12:30 am
one step worse…..TCPA, forget the networks…lets control your computer b/c you are not responsible enough to make the right decision.
gah, we’re screwed!
June 1st, 2004 at 5:00 pm
“Kill all P2P?? Why is it you suppose that RIAA et al not only want to kill copyright infringement on p2p but P2P apps/networks themselves??”
IMHO this is about market control. In the past (before popularity of P2P) the big 5 music cabal would pick artists, promote them, get them played on the radio (anybody who thinks payola is dead is living in a dream world…) and then press the “product” to meet the created need/desire. Now with P2P people are hearing all kinds of music they would never have heard before. Even if P2P users where to actually BUY CDs (like they don’t?) they want all this stuff that is not necessarily on big music’s front burner ready to be gobbled up at the music store. How inconvenient for them! Once this little P2P mess is cleaned up their next targets will be internet radio and gasp, all this FREE (”legit”) music on the net. How can they possibly compete with FREE? Ever hear that one before?
June 2nd, 2004 at 12:48 am
>How inconvenient for them! Once this little P2P mess is cleaned up their next targets will be internet radio and gasp,
hey braniac, guess you didnt hear what the RIAA has already done to indie internet webcast, radio etc….its already been consolidated.
June 2nd, 2004 at 12:53 am
yep he’s behind the times, check this, RIAA already has wrapped that up;
RIAA-backed webcast bill ‘a disaster for the US’
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/27653.html
RIAA-written’ Net radio bill served to Senate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27605.html
‘96 pc of Net Radio’ to close after backroom deal screws grassroots ‘casters
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27575.html
June 2nd, 2004 at 2:09 am
guess he’d never heard of that eh LOL
June 2nd, 2004 at 9:01 pm
Well, I find lots of good indie webcasts um, right now in June of 2004. Look at the dates on these stories…
RIAA-backed webcast bill ‘a disaster for the US’
Published Thursday 17th October 2002 08:45 GMT
‘96 pc of Net Radio’ to close after backroom deal screws grassroots ‘casters
Published Saturday 12th October 2002 06:43 GMT
‘RIAA-written’ Net radio bill served to Senate
Published Tuesday 15th October 2002 10:52 GMT
June 2nd, 2004 at 11:45 pm
Below is part of a comment posted today about another story on P2Pnet. It’s what I was referring to.
“I can also get all the music I could ever listen to by recording from shoutcast radio stations.”
June 3rd, 2004 at 12:56 am
yah this all happened awhile ago, like was said.