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[vampirechronicles]

A few short years ago, Kevin Bermeister was the music industry's public enemy number one, pursued by lawyers and private investigators over his file sharing business Kazaa. Now Mr Bermeister, who paid out a reported $150 million in a 2005 legal settlement with the majors, has created a new weapon against music piracy that could make him the industry's new best friend.

Called Copyrouter, it is technology that detects when a user is trying to download a copyright-infringing version of a song from a peer-to-peer file sharing network, and replaces it with a legitimate – paid – version. The user is asked before the download if they agree to pay for the copyright-protected version through their next monthly ISP bill.

In an ongoing Australian trial, preliminary results revealed yesterday suggest around 30 per cent of the diverted transactions result in the user agreeing to pay. The idea is the technology could ultimately be rolled into an “all you can eat” or subscription model for music bundled with the bill from your internet service provider (ISP).

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[vampirechronicles]

they can eat me *i have no interest in allowing that of course* hmm

[multi]

first I have heard of it..

I hope the ip ranges for this shite is in the frigging blocklists in future

[JackSpratts]

multi, on Aug 22 2009, 04:38 PM, said:

first I have heard of it..

I hope the ip ranges for this shite is in the frigging blocklists in future

not sure even that would work multi. sounds like the isp itself is sniffing bits. if that's the case probably only files encrypted at the host level could escape detection. that's fine for small groups like waste but will put a dent in global apps like bt.

as usual it depends entirely on isps for enforcement and they have proven reluctant so far. offer them a cut on every track they intercept however and we'll see how reluctant they remain.

- js.