Shawn Fanning's New Venture

prostoalex writes "We've read about Justin Frankel, but what are the other heroes of the MP3 revolution up to? News.com.com.com tells the story of Shawn Fanning's new company. SnoCap (which changed its name from Open Copyright Database) is currently developing file-sharing mechanisms that would allow the music industry to earn money."

original name

[Anonymous Coward]

His lawyers wouldn't let him call it AssCap (get it, poking fun at ASCAP)?

New website?

[ksheka]

News.com.com.com For when you want news about news.com.com ???

Yes, /. is redundant at times, but I thought the guys at CNet were a bit better...

OCD?

[Jonah Hex]

which changed its name from Open Copyright Database

Might be a good thing to be called OCD, they could say their Obsessive and Compulsive about their Database software!

Jonah Hex

I have a log of the program's debug output!

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Snocap has been working on ways to identify songs, as they are traded through a file-swapping network, including using a technique called "audio fingerprinting," which monitors the sonic characteristics of music files.

shawn $ fingerprint_id_test test_files.txt

LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: beethoven.mp3
Identifying ...
100% Match: Beethoven, Ludwig Van, classical

LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: coltrane.mp3
Identifying ...
100% Match: Coltrane, John, Jazz

LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: chembros.mp3
Identifying ...
100% Match: Chemical Brothers, electronic
77% Match: Daft Punk, electronic
75% Match: Noise, industrial-moise-recording

LOADING INPUT TEST FILE: britspears.mp3
Identifying ...
100% Match: Spice girls, teenage pop
100% Match: N'Sync, teenage pop
100% Match: Backstreet Boys, teenage pop
100% Match: Hilary Duff, teenage pop
100% Match: Maris Willson, teenage pop
100% Match: Holly Valance, teenage pop
100% Match: Mandy Moore, teenage pop
100% Match: Vitamin C, teenage pop
100% Match: Christina Aguilera, teenage pop
100% Match: Five, teenage pop
100% Match: Jennifer Lopez, teenage pop
100% Match: Aaliyah, teenage pop
100% Match: Rachel Stevens, teenage pop
100% Match: Pink, teenage pop

*** Endless recursion error. Core dumped ***

"allow the music industry to earn money"

[Anonymous Coward]

allow the music industry to earn money

Next, we'll be teaching fish to swim, birds to fly, and rabbits to reproduce....

He's not the real Napster

[Stubtify]

He's not Napster! I'm the real napster. Shawn was my roommate in college, I rote napster and named it that because I was always napping. When I fell asleep one day he stole the program from me and now he gets all the glory.