New Philips anti-p2p weapon?
p2pnet.net News:- RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol has been acting as chief salesman for a p2p ‘filter’ created by a company called Audible Magic.
With himself as the Lone Ranger, Bainwol has been presenting it as a silver bullet, pimping it to gullible and/or Hollywood motivated congresspersons as one of the primary answers to p2p.
Audible Magic never clearly and publicly demonstrated that its ‘filtering’ software works in the wild, and it went nowhere, the RIAA’s sterling efforts notwithstanding.
However, it appears Philips is working on an idea with similarities to Audible Magic’s, says CNET News.
“Researchers at Royal Philips Electronics are developing new ‘fingerprinting’ technology that could automatically identify and block transmission of digital-video files, potentially handing movie studios a new weapon in its war on peer-to-peer networks,” says the story.
In fact, it’s the audio fingerprinting technology that’s central to Napster founder Shawn Fanning’s new Snocap, which is being used by Wayne Rosso’s forthcoming MashBoxx service.
“At the moment, Philips’ technology is only in the early stages, but Philips is already showing off its technology to potential customers and partners,” says the story. “So far software manufactures claim it is impractical to filter content, but it seems that Philips is determined to continue its development. The main issue Philips is encountering is how to efficiently identify video frames as there is more content and detail in a given duration of video compared with a similar duration of audio.”
However, if Philips does get the technology together it, along with related tools from other companies, “could be a powerful weapon in Hollywood’s increasingly aggressive attempts to choke off the flood of films being traded online,” says CNET.
But, “For now, the tools are in an early stage of development,” although Philips has, “begun to show them to potential partners and customers”.
Don’t hold your breath.
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See:-
primary – Audible Magic’s ’silver bullet’, p2pnet, July 13, 2004
fingerprinting - Movie blackout for P2P networks?, CNET News, February 10, 2005
February 15th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
I guess they never heard of local wireless neworks, sneakernet, encryption, or vpn’s. Right now RIAA and MPAA seek to put copyright checking circuits in just about every electronic device. If they succeed We might as well convert to the Amish lifestyle.
February 15th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
I used to respect Philips. I bought one of their DivX DVD players. Gee, I wonder if anybody uses those to play downloaded movies? Seems like they are playing both sides against the middle. I guess one less customer probably won’t make too much difference to them. Our pocketbooks are the only tool we have in this war. Used effectively what we buy (or don’t buy) could be a VERY powerful tool.
February 15th, 2005 at 10:11 pm
This is to dumb, do the live in cook-cook land. This is just to easy to defeat.
Encryption
How would it know, if could decrypted it the computer power needed to do it is just so insane.
PS I only say this due issues which are on this site.
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=363
February 18th, 2005 at 11:09 am
Or the files could just be zipped.
February 19th, 2005 at 5:54 am
ISN’T THIS SUPPOSED TO BE WHAT (STILL MOSTLY VAPORWARE) SNOCAP IS USING?