Myspace - my new song is a copyright infringement?

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:49 am

I tried to upload a new track to www.myspace.com/pivotsound and when the file uploaded, it did some kind of processing followed by an error saying that my song is a copyright infringement and would not show up.

I heard yesterday that Myspace has a new audio fingerprinting engine to stop pirated music from going up there, but for fuck sakes ... at the expense of no more original material ?

slow riot · Post by **slow riot** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:14 am

sweetjesus wrote:I tried to upload a new track to www.myspace.com/pivotsound and when the file uploaded, it did some kind of processing followed by an error saying that my song is a copyright infringement and would not show up.

I heard yesterday that Myspace has a new audio fingerprinting engine to stop pirated music from going up there, but for fuck sakes ... at the expense of no more original material ?

this happened to me yesterday as well, really confused me, but at least I have some kind of explanation now. actually, scrap that, I'm still confused.

slow riot · Post by **slow riot** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:16 am

slow riot wrote: this happened to me yesterday as well, really confused me, but at least I have some kind of explanation now. actually, scrap that, I'm still confused.

the amusing thing is that of the songs I uploaded, one was a cover (albeit mostly unrecognisable) of a very well known song, which went straight up without any problems. and one of the original songs got rejected.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:23 am

I read they (and Youtube) have licensed the Gracenote , which is an audio fingerprinting technology. I've seen it operate before quite impressively. I think here it is obviously less than impressive.

Perhaps it is not in place yet and they are simply blocking any music uploads!

I don't think SJ's music is particularly heavy on 3rd party samples, so unless someonehas the copyright on all frequencies between 5k and 7k or something .. this is the beginning of the end for these two companies.

lets face it - for Youtube in particular - videos of copyright material is what makes 80% of its attraction. I have found videos on there I would never have seen otherwise, if I cant find more Can, Faust, Suicide , ... (etc) videos there I would never visit again. I am not 14 and have no interest in 14 year old girls miming and mincing about.

we should have a festival of copyrighted music from these services before they curl up and die.

which, in the case of myspace, would be a very good thing.

formatk · Post by **formatk** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:40 am

yep... been happening to me since Sunday...can't upload due to copyright infringement... shiteness, and nothing from MySpace customer services

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:06 pm

Let the myspace backlash commence. It's been coming for a while.

Spiralgroove · Post by **Spiralgroove** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:13 pm

this is the same company who said they could not implement a function to search their database against a known list of sex offenders.
but they sure cracked down on music piracy with the quickness.

douchebags.

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:18 pm

Spiralgroove wrote:this is the same company who said they could not implement a function to search their database against a known list of sex offenders.

They said it was impossible so a Wired reporter knocked up a script that did it and discovered 744. I bet MySpace were a little embarassed by that.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,71948-0.html

Spiralgroove · Post by **Spiralgroove** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:20 pm

well it shows you what their priorities are

eddit · Post by **eddit** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:27 pm

Talk about screwed up priorities over at myspace. This reminds me of the recent Microsoft Windows Media Player DRM patch. The fastest turn around for a Microsoft security bulletin on record, even though there was no actual vulnerability.

Money talks alot louder than, well, everything

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:31 pm

eddit wrote:Talk about screwed up priorities over at myspace. This reminds me of the recent Microsoft Windows Media Player DRM patch. The fastest turn around for a Microsoft security bulletin on record, even though there was no actual vulnerability.

Money talks alot louder than, well, everything

It's owned by Rupert Murdoch. The biggest media baron on the planet. He's such a cnut that despite owning the Sky network and half of the UK newspapers he apparently pays no tax in the UK. Fncking parasite.

This is the main reason why I hope MySpace crashes and burns.

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:35 pm

it already has crashed and burned, its a steaming pile of shit. its getting smellier and smellier. Some people have a higher threshold for bad smells so they'll take a little longer to get the message.

so Rupert enjoys tax-free status eh ?...Gee I wonder what favours he's doing in return for that

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:41 pm

b0unce wrote: so Rupert enjoys tax-free status eh ?...Gee I wonder what favours he's doing in return for that

Just papered the right palms. Y'know the usual.

In fact half the political battle in the UK is just to get Murdoch on your side. Once you've done that you can get him to manipulate the population to vote for you.

Democracy, yeah right.

kooki415 · Post by **kooki415** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:46 pm

if the gracenote anti-piracy software works the same way as the gracenote engine in say itunes, then all you need to do is add a second or two of silence at the end of the track, because it identifies songs by exact sample length.

capta1nA · Post by **capta1nA** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:47 pm

well, murdoch does live in australia.

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