June 4, 2004

New Software Uses Fake Songs to Confound Would-Be Music Traders

By BROCK READ

Typically, campus users of peer-to-peer software can just type in the title of a hit song, get a list of computer users who have a copy, and then download the track to their own music collections -- all within minutes.

But what if such users found they had downloaded files holding nothing more than three minutes of static?

Such results could cause a fair amount of frustration, says John Hale, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Tulsa. And that,

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