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Scanning Software
Source: AP
“RIAA discloses methods used to track music downloaders”
From the article, The US recording industry yesterday provided its most detailed glimpse to date into some of the detective-style techniques it has employed as part of its secretive campaign to cripple music piracy over the internet…For example, the industry disclosed its use of a library of digital fingerprints, called “hashes”, that it said can uniquely identify MP3 music files that had been traded on the Napster service as far back as May 2000. Examining hashes is commonly used by the FBI and other computer investigators in cases of cracking. By comparing the fingerprints of music files on a person’s computer against its library, the RIAA believes it can determine in some cases whether someone recorded a song from a legally purchased CD or downloaded it from someone else over the Internet.
See Also: Lean About Ranger
From the EPIC site, The RIAA will be using scanning software such as Ranger to find the illegally shared files on P2P networks.

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