RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes 779
aSiTiC writes "Apparently RIAA has obtained some technical experts in their prosecution of file swappers. Currently they are tracking traded mp3 files from the Napster network by matching MD5 hashes. This seems quite interesting but I was under the assumption that identical hashes could be created with identical rips and id3v2 tagging. Now may be the time to update your illegal mp3 file MD5 hash sums."
gee? (Score:5, Funny)
ya think? and here i thought it was the magical mp3 fairy who put mp3s on my hd...
Plumper porn (Score:2, Funny)
Job opportunities (Score:5, Funny)
After all, in these dot-bust days, it's still possible to get a nice highly paid job and be called an expert by putting the right spin to strcmp() in your resume
HOWTO: Encrypted partition (Score:5, Funny)
modprobe cryptoloop
modprobe aes
losetup -e aes
(input password)
mke2fs -j
mount -t ext3
enjoy!
Re:Plumper porn (Score:1, Funny)
No, don't tell me, I don't want to think about it. It could involve builder's cleavage and everything.
Give up (Score:5, Funny)
Hail to the king!
Re:own rip identical to download (Score:4, Funny)
Audio rippers aren't always perfect AFAIK.
... or even competent! How many rippers can't get the tagging right when the song and artist ARE PRINTED RIGHT THERE ON THE LOUSY CD COVERSLIP! Sheesh! Learn the difference betwenn Meat Loaf and Leo Sayer for cryin' out loud!
RIAA Propaganda (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Condoning illegal activity??? (Score:1, Funny)
You sir, are a dick.
From the Napster Network?? (Score:5, Funny)
Yikes.
Virus (Score:3, Funny)
Then, when people get busted, they can say "It was a virus".
Of course, this would make the search feature of Kazza useless...
Re:MD5 Cannot stand up in court. (Score:2, Funny)
P2P modifying files.. (Score:5, Funny)
I can see it now... "And in recent news, according to the RIAA there are over 10 billion songs being traded. The organization is quoted as saying 'We intend to sue individual users for having more songs than we've created...'"
Re:MD5 Cannot stand up in court. (Score:5, Funny)
That would totally pooch clients such as E-Donkey that use MD5 hashes to actually figure out which clients have a particular file (whether just a portion thereof, or in their entirety), irrespective of how each individual client may have renamed it.
And trust me, there are fringe benefits to the hashing as well, such as making it apparent when someone is trying to masquerade a file as something that it's really not.
E.g., consider the following scenario...
1. You are searching for Red Hat ISOs.
2. You find a match called "Red Hat.iso" shared from one user.
3. You notice that there are 50 other users sharing the same file.
3. The other 50 versions are named as "Goatse.cx guy and tubgirl together at last.mpg"
4. Therefore, something is very very rotten in Denmark...
Mechanik
Re:MD5 Cannot stand up in court. (Score:3, Funny)
Now that I think about it, those two things actually sound alike also.
-prator
Re:gee? (Score:4, Funny)
al%
ha nice try, we know the only way to delete something is to highlight it and click delete, and then empty the trashcan!
You can't fool us!