P2P Program to Match Files to Product Origin 56
Keiron Waites writes "A program to match p2p downloads with the original products they came from has been released. ShareMonkey is free software for Microsoft Windows, with an additional plugin for the Shareaza p2p application. ShareMonkey lets you right click on a file and choose "Where is this file from?", which will direct you to a listing of products that carry the file. ShareMonkey is a service for those p2p users that download copyrighted files in a "try before you buy" capacity and is an attempt to bridge the gap between copyright infringement and subsequent purchasing of a product."
Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS! (Score:4, Informative)
Come on, really? I'm not impressed (Score:5, Informative)
OK, so I don't own a Windoze box, but they have a web-based service called ThankBand [thankband.com] -- you upload an MP3 file and it (supposedly) tells you where to buy the music. I've got some J-Pop tracks lying around that I've never been able to figure out the artists for, so I go and give it a shot -- the songs had filenames like f12dac3oiawj9ret.mp3 and I can't seem to get any search hits for the bits of the lyrics I can make out.
Hrmph. Well, no surprise, that one's a bit obscure. Let's try something slightly more widely known:
Heeey, not bad! I wonder...
What? Oh, don't tell me...
Yeah, that's what I figured. Come on, guys; the motive is laudable, but any dumbass can go and type a filename into Google. To get a mention on the front page of Slashdot, you should really have to do better than that.