Comments on: Music Pirates Aren’t Going To Love MusicDNA

By: Guido

Guido — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:43:01 +0000

take over MP3? who uses lossy anymore?
I’m sorry but It’s not out yet and you already failed.

By: lol i just had to

lol i just had to — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:58:24 +0000

LOL this is a waste of time. the music industry needs to accept piracy instead of trying to find new ways to combat it. DO THEY UNDERSTAND WE CAN CONVERT FILES? or record off the source onto a different format? srsly u fail. pirates will always win.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:57:45 +0000

Give us a week. We’ll crack it :)

By: Kie

Kie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:37:54 +0000

If it ever becomes mainstream, there’ll be heaps of people making programs to block it. I bet even a decent firewall will stop it sending information back, as we can treat it as spyware.

By: Xikaiden

Xikaiden — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:22:44 +0000

I don’t like the thoughts of some music format that can access the web and report information about me, my system, etc. To me its much like spyware or malware and why should anyone pay to be spyed upon? Its just another instance of customers being punished in the name of DRM management. Not to mention that theres way too much risk that hackers could target the ports that these files access to harm your system. It also sounds alot like the Root Kit issue Sony got in trouble for back in the 90′s.

Sorry IRAA or whoever’s responsible for this, Thanks but no thanks. Leave my MP3′s alone!

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:27:27 +0000

Actually, I think the idea itself is pretty sound.

That idea is that you simply access all sorts of dynamic info right from the media player. Think: twitter feeds, blogs, tour dates, etc…

It’s possible to embed some URL’s in audio tags, but it’s by no means standardized. Everything I mentioned is actually impossible to do with ID3v2 tags.

The entire problem is the DRM-ness of the whole thing. A much better solution would be to make this info free and not collect users’ data. I think it would be awesome if somebody like Xiph.org standardized their tags to do this.

By: ThatDude

ThatDude — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:46:58 +0000

So if the file can “phone home”… how is that any different than an invasion of privacy? Yet another attempt at violating the bill of rights by the big media companies.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:26:05 +0000

Hahaha… Very funny,
This probably only an April fools joke.

Seriously, Are they REALLY that stupid?

Many NORMAL and already wide available music player with info scrapper can already do that! and it doesn’t care whether its pirate or not! free and works with our standard lovable non-intrusive mp3 formats.

How can adding some restriction and adding a spyware to a format can make it better?

By: 666

666 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:55:30 +0000

So i’ll get the “extra” tags only for music i bought. Yes like i can’t use MusicBrainz Picard, SongBird or MediaMonkey for tagging my music with lyrics/artist info/pictures etc.

Useless IMO, and it just proves they can’t fix the “piracy”, so they invent a new format which most people will never use. I bet 100$ this format will never reach mainstream.

By: twerpy

twerpy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:56:54 +0000

Spyware codecs!