Flat branch and downloaders: pingpongstrijd
The technique is not on itself new, but well reasonable strange. The program Sig2dat walks through the regarding resistant and generates an unique identification number. On the moment that someone a music or videobestand spreads is it the intention that he at the same time the unique number of this truce announces.
On the basis of this identification number is the possible the original truce to recognize. Record companies have meanwhile discovers how the users of the P2P-netweken to frustrate. There a music truce available is stolen under the name of the artist. With the content of the truce however geknoeid is. Such music truce contain shorten for instance a fragment that self repeats always a complete silence or odd sounds.
The technique is not on self newly. There its various programs that uses make of the possibility truces digitally to sign. The program `Pretty Good Privacy' can for instance truces and texts digital `ondertekenen'.
Or this a solution for the long term will be falls to look on. The music industry can foresee known make namely the `mislukte' truces also of a digital signature and the signature as a `goede copy'.
The cat and mouse game will continue so yet well just. The waiting is on an answer of the music industry.
An extensive Nederlanse explanation of Sig2dat is on Museekster to find.