Cindy used our newssubmit to tell us that on Heise.de we can read that the company Overpeer has claimed US patents for fake files (that e.g contain only 30 secs of a song, but have still the same file size) on peer to peer networks, as
method to annoy pirates.
The technique is simply explained in three steps: 1. collect digital pirated media, 2. edit the media (damage the quality) 3. distribute the media on the networks again.
Badly translated from German with Babelfish: |
Like Ciarán T. it was issued in the last weeks many exchange stock exchange users. Manipulated Songs emerges ever more frequently in the file sharing networks. TRACK, in which after some clocks suddenly nothing at all more is to be heard. MP3s in hundsmiserabler quality. Songs with interferences, varying volume, strange warnings. To most headlines excited these manipulated files in the case of the new Eminem CD. Already weeks before the official publication " of the Eminem Show " emerged all TRACKS of the album in the net - however in obviously particularly versions manufactured for the exchange networks. Someone had made itself the trouble to loopen eight clocks of the pieces too cleanly over the original length of the pieces.
Completely clearly, that was not a joke. Here someone tried to clog the file sharing networks purposefully in order to prevent the exchange that originals. As the coincidence wants it so, disk company Interscope is also NO Doubt under contract with Eminems.
If you would like the entire article (in German) go here. If you want to translate it, you can use Babelfish here.
Also don't forget we have a special German forum for the German speaking CD Freaks visitors !
Source: Heise.de
