Copyright tool being tested to scan the Net

[samintx]

this is interesting...."to scan the entire net" that is some powerful tool.

[mikebw]

Don't you suppose Google already has this ability?

And what of all the copies that have stripped the DRM flagging system from the files?

[SteveJobs]

How do you think google finds their next 'product'.?

[Panopticon]

'ex Yahoo executives' looking to pump the hype prior to their IPO next year.

Sometimes you really need to read into these 'news' stories, not just parrot the content.

Here's a question for you, who has the computing power and bandwidth to utilize this tool efficiently?
hint http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin...2003442327&zsection_id=2002119995&slug=cray22&date=20061122

[Todd's keyboard]

from the first link (above)

>Technology such as this could prove to be a welcomed tool in their arsenal to compliment current DRM practices.

Compliment?

Would cutting and pasting the sentence (above) mean this post will be flagged as a a copyright infringement?


Todd's pedantic keyboard

[wurm]

I think you're safe because I'd consider it satire.

[Greg the dogsitter]

Hey, I wrote perl script that recursively digs down through folders on an FTP server and extracts data from all the .gz files in those folders.

So I'm not impressed. :-)