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Thursday, May 15, 2008 --- 71 days ago http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=RIAA-Explains-How-It-Catches-Alle
| CATHERINE RAMPELL writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education:To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative said during a private demonstration of how it catches alleged music pirates.The demonstration was given by an RIAA employee who would speak only on condition of anonymity because of concern that he would receive hate e-mail. The official explained that one way the RIAA identifies pirates is by using LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that is free online and used by many college students.Here's how the process works: The RIAA maintains a list of songs whose distribution rights are owned by the RIAA's member organizations. It has given that list to Media Sentry, a company it hired to search for online pirates. That company runs copies of the LimeWire program and performs searches for those copyrighted song titles, one by one, to see if any are being offered by people whose computers are connected to the LimeWire network... ... |
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