Digital music pirates beware! San Jose-based copyright security firm says BayTSP your days are numbered as it releases BaySpider, which is designed to track digital music files across the Internet.
BaySpider is designed to give music producers the ability to track MP3, wav or other types of music files regardless of their original distribution date and their method of distribution. The application extracts what the company calls the "electronic DNA" of a given file and scans the Internet to identify Web sites, news groups, and peer-to-peer groups like Napster or Gnutella hosting music files that match the original.
The patent-pending technology allows the identification of a digitally encoded music file regardless of the file`s compression methods or sampling rates.
Once a file has been located, BayTSP takes a digital snapshot of the URL, date and time stamps it, and automatically sends infringement notices to both the host and the ISP. The spiders will repeatedly hit the site until the infringed material has been taken down.
"The current tracking techniques, using watermarking or encryption, are inadequate and will inevitably fail," says Mark Ishikawa, BayTSP`s CEP. "When the code [to the encryption or watermark] is broken, users will redistribute these music files throughout the Internet without the slightest fear of reprisal."
BayTSP originally developed the technology to track copyrighted photos and text. In the past six months the company`s spiders have found more than 22 0000 infringements. Of those sites warned, BayTSP reports nearly 100% compliance, with the infringed material being removed.
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