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You could hash the files and say that 50,000 people all had an identical mp3 of a track. Given tagging, subtle differences between CD drives, and the lossy enco
by kemayo 15y ago
You could hash the files and say that 50,000 people all had an identical mp3 of a track. Given tagging, subtle differences between CD drives, and the lossy encoding process it'd be fairly probable that they all got it from the same place.
Of course, that's not the same thing as proving in each case that they really did pirate it, but it'd be a start as a way of building a list of people to look at.
- hyperbovine 15y agoI have no qualms about downloading an MP3 of a track that I already physically own but am too lazy to unearth and rip. Hope they'll take that into account.
- kemayo 15y agoEthically I agree, and I think that most other people would as well. However... I'd suspect it's still illegal, especially if you used bittorrent and thus gave copies out to other people.
- isleyaardvark 15y agoDo people think it's likely that Apple would implement such a system? That would take a certain amount of coordination with the RIAA and engineering effort on Apple's part to... screw over their paying customers. I don't think it's likely. Nor does Apple have any need to keep the original data on file. They make a match, that's it, job's done.
- kemayo 15y agoI think it's pretty unlikely. But the conversation had gotten around to "how would they even do that???", so that's what I answered. :)