Re: IDs for lone mp3s

svanegmond nospam at bang.dhs.org
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:28:50 -0500

>For instance, if the RIAA started snooping the data and trying to
>track down pirates based on the ids of the MP3s that would be *really* bad.

Why?

Are we building a system to make life easy, effective, and consequence-free
for music pirates, or are we building a system to identify what music CD
you've jammed into your drive?

Really, I have to say that I don't give a hoot about lyrics. I can find
them in 2 seconds with Google because someone somewhere has typed them
into their web page. I don't care about identifying mp3s because some
idiot has renamed his collection or busted the directory structure
or ruined her attributes (on the BeOS).

Can we just focus on building a library that people can use to identify
a freakin audio CD?

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