IP: Network warfare begins...

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 21:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Ed Vielmetti <emv@monkey.org>
>To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 00:51:09 -0400
>From: Valdis <valdis@orgnet.com>
>Subject: network warfare begins...
>
>Interesting news item... the beginning of network warfare?
>
>
>  IFPI unveils Napster search tool
>
>LONDON (Billboard) - As expected, the International Federation of the
>Phonographic Industry on Wednesday unveiled what it claims is the first
>ever publicly available search tool that can track use of
>copyright-holders' works on Napster. IFPI chairman/CEO Jay Berman said the
>tool will likely be reconfigured for other peer-to-peer platforms. The
>Songbird software, developed by Travis Hill, president of Utah-based
>technology company Media Enforcer, searches all available Napster servers
>for variations of artists' names or song titles, including those that are
>misspelled. The user can then choose to have infringing works removed. One
>year in the making, the tool was developed in cooperation with the IFPI's
>anti-piracy unit. Hill said he created the software with an aim to
>"eventually clear the Internet from unauthorized music files."  He said
>Songbird is particularly helpful for artists and independent companies
>that don't have the financial or technical means to protect their works.
>The software is endorsed by artists' organizations that include BIEM,
>CISAC, the International Federation of Musicians, and the International
>Confederation of Music Publishers.
>
>whose agents will evolve faster to attack/block the others' agents?  how
>does one swarm learn faster than a competing swarm?



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