BluFilter may a provide a solution for artists and Fileshare

[Jo]

Exciting news over at Music Industry News may provide a much needed solution for the online music community. A BETA release of BluFilter: Authorize software will allow artists to list thier material in a web based BluFilter database and set prices. Then P2P network facilitators such as Kazaa, Morpheus etc. can plug in the BluFilter ActiveX component into thier applications for free. Here is how it will work.

When a user or file sharer completes the download of a song, the BluFilter component extracts a digital signature of that file and cross references it with the content database to check for copyright validity. If the file is copyrighted, the user can opt to purchase it for the preset price otherwise the file is deleted. While the majority of the transaction revenue goes directly to the artist or record company, a percentage will also go to the file-sharing network.

In the case of music files, the digital signatures used during cross-referencing, are generated based on the waveforms that make a piece of music sound the way it does. Therefore, the same recording will generate the same signature every time regardless of the quality or distinctiveness of the file itself. The BluFilter component has been designed to handle elusive, file-sharing practices, which would seek to circumvent the digital signature process.

"The BluFilter platform finally gives P2P network providers the ability to
effectively control the content that is shared on their network," said Alex Sauriol, Kokopelli Network's co-founder.


Sauriol further explains that the software creates a "win-win" solution. Now content owners can receive direct payment from the end user and transaction fees will help support the network infrastructure.

A new market for the music industry, artists and the consumer could develop from innovations such as this.

[bugster]

Any bets on how long it will take to crack this?

[The village idiot]

If it is anything like DVD audio, before it gets released!

[secretagent]

all you have to do is slightly modify the song in cool edit or goldwave.
add reverb or anything else to 1 second of the song.

no crack needed.

[bugster]

See, cracked already!

[mysticgohan17]

lower the volume on the silence at the end of the track, refade the fade out at the end of the track. convert it to ogg or ape .

[igalan]

You just need to zip them, and no more recognition is possible (or use some not popular method so it can't be easily detected by the ActiveX component). But this is more a way to allow legal p2p with (c) protected material, than a protection for (c) holders.

[Gazorgan]

The key note was:

If the file is copyrighted, the user can opt to purchase it for the preset price otherwise the file is deleted

Can you say Norton Trashcan? Can you say copy before the copyright is verified? Can you say block the verification request(simple IP redirect or LMHOST file)? Can you say packet sniff yourself?

Sheesh, I can think of other ways to mechanic around the whole thing, and not write a single line of code. Too much marketing and not enough coding if you ask me. Oh yeah, re-do the active-X control, that ain't rocket science either, just spoof the copyright verification.