Making and Detecting Illegal Music

Demona writes "Long-time music aficionado Dave Marsh has an article in the latest edition of Counterpunch entitled Sampler's Delight. Giving rave reviews to "Nothing to Fear", the latest in a long line of so-called illegal music, he also describes a "'major label waveform CD database,' which is capable of recognizing materials allegedly owned by the record label cartel." This database is allegedly why a UK pressing plant rejected the initial attempt at publishing "Nothing To Fear", which is comprised almost entirely of sampled material."

A great way of detecting illegal music:

[Bowie J. Poag]

cd mp3; ls *

Cheers,

Poor media companies

[Anonymous Coward]

Purchasing laws deosn't work. Technology doesn't work either. Freedom is a bitch, isn't it Valenti and Rosen?

Re:A great way of detecting illegal music:

[ekrout]

This is Slashdot. Don't you mean:

cd ogg; ls *

;-)

Illegal?

[nastro]

Pac-Man Fever should have been illegal. They dropped the ball on that 15 years ago, however.

This is the music equivalent of flamebait...

[AndersM]

Such releases are quite similar to flamebait on slashdot, except that the flaming that follows is written in legalese, and, well, karma isn't what they should be afraid of losing... =)

Did anyone consider this?

[moertle]

From the Plunderphonic site:

Note: It costs us quite a bit of money to afford the bandwidth so that we can offer these files to you. Please consider a donation [detritus.net]. Thanx for your support!

I'm sure a good slashdotting will really hit their pockets hard.

Re:How can you MAKE illegal music

[Niadh]

Actual I was thinking more of Britney Spears singing:

"s''$/=\2048;
while(){G=29;
R=142;
if((@a=unq T="C*",_)[20]&48){D=89;
_=unqb24,qT,@b=map{ordqB8 ,unqb8,qT,_^$a[--D]}@INC;
s/...$/1$&/;
Q=unqV,qb25,_;
H=73;
O=$b[4]>8^( P=(E=255)&(Q>>12^Q>>4^Q/8^Q))>8^(E&(F=( S=O>>14&7^O)^S*8^S>=8)+=P+(~F&E))for@a[128..$#a]}p rint+qT,@a}';
s/[D-HO-U_]/\$$&/g;
s/q/pack+/g;
eval"

catchy beat eh?

So that's why they do it..

[AKnightCowboy]

They can keep their wave table database much smaller if they keep all modern music sounding alike. Clever RIAA, very clever. In fact, the entire database covering the years 1992 to 2002 is comprised of 25 samples.

Re:laws of parody?

[EverDense]

Have any of those other bands released an album with the name of the band they copied music
from in big bold letters on the cover, and their own name in fine print at the bottom?

Warrant released an album in 1992 entitled "Dog Eat Dog"
Subsequently Dog Eat Dog released an album in 1993 entitled "Warrant"