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I've always wondered how the RIAA looks to see if it's copyrighted or not. If they just use the app's metadata, which in turn uses the MP3's metadata, why not e
by ROFISH 18y ago
I've always wondered how the RIAA looks to see if it's copyrighted or not. If they just use the app's metadata, which in turn uses the MP3's metadata, why not encrypt the MP3's metadata? Even ROT-13 would work since "Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time" becomes "Oevgarl Fcrnef - Uvg Zr Onol Bar Zber Gvzr", something not on their massive Excel sheet.
- axod 18y agoThis is exactly what happened with Napster. After Napster stopped accepting certain filenames which were marked as "infringing", users just made a plugin to rename all files with rot13 type things, and to rot13 any search queries in the application.
- nailer 18y agoBecause: * Most people like to download files with proper names and metadata. * The app itself could not provide such a plugin, as it could be argued that this was designed to facilitate copyright infringement. * Most users wouldn't know how to install some third party plugin to the app to perform this, especially as the app provider couldn't link to it, for the reasons above. PS. If anyone here is from reddit, and believes taking people's creative efforts without paying for it where asked is not wrong, please justify why. Thanks.
- jrockway 18y agoPS. If anyone here is from reddit, and believes taking people's creative efforts without paying for it where asked is not wrong, please justify why. It's wrong, but people think it's right to do it and you can't prevent them from doing it. So you can either whine all day about how these people are stealing, or find some solution that actually works.
- nailer 18y agoTrue, you can't prevent anyone from doing it, but you don't have to - all you have to do is make it difficult enough.