Audible Magic hooks Virgin
p2pnet.net News:- Mitch Bainwol’s Audible Magic says it’s signed a deal with the UK’s Virgin Group V2 label.
We say Bainwol’s because he’s the boss of the RIAA and therefore knows about these things, which is why he was enthusiastically hawking it around various congressional offices, disingenuously promoting it as a panacea for file sharing.
This claim was, needless to say, no more than typical RIAA lie-speak and as EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) staff technologist Chris Palmer wrote slightly more than a year ago:
“The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been touting technologies offered by Audible Magic as the cure for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on university (and high school!) campuses.” But it’s no “silver bullet for P2P infringement,” he said.
“While we at EFF support universities taking steps to educate staff and students about copyright law and to control excessive bandwidth usage, it is important that universities are not sold expensive, ineffective solutions simply to appease the public relations needs of the RIAA. It is also important that policymakers not be misled by the bullish pronouncements of the RIAA and Audible Magic regarding the effectiveness of "acoustic filtering" technologies.”
But never mind that.
“Under the multi-faceted agreement, V2 will register their present catalog of existing and future music with Audible Magic’s vast database of digitally fingerprinted content, which features one of the largest collections of copyrighted songs in the world. Audible Magic’s CopySense technology will be implemented to monitor all V2 tracks and enable the legal P2P download and distribution of V2’s online music,” brags Audible.
Was it W.C. Fields who said, ‘There’s a sucker born every minute?’
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See:-
touting technologies – Audible Magic’s ’silver bullet’, p2pnet, July 14, 2004
August 5th, 2005 at 1:42 am
“There’s a sucker born every minute” was actually said by David Hannum. He was refering to people who had paid money to P.T. Barnum for the privilege of seeing a fossilized giant.