Fingerprinting Technology For Music Sharing Apps
from the but-will-it-work? dept
There are more and more articles these days about people or bands putting up "trojan horse" or fake versions of songs onto Napster and other files sharing applications in order to discredit them. Now, in response to that, a few different firms are working on special fingerprinting technologies that will verify that a song really is the song you're looking for. It's cool to see how technology is being used to solve each new roadblock. Of course, all of the current fingerprinting technologies seem to rely on building a large database of legitimate files to compare songs with. That's a lot of work, that none of them have actually taken on yet.
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