3PM or reverse MP3 - The only way to escape RIAA?

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I discovered this on a brazilian blog: there is a new music format, .3PM, which is basically a MP3 file reversed and renamed, but which presents a viable escapeway through the tight net RIAA is throwing to all music downloaders: as the inverted tracks aren't a bit similar as the correct versions, RIAA cannot sue for copyright breach. It seems there are already plug-ins for Winamp and other programs for playing 3PM files without having to reverse them. Necessity is, in fact, the mother of invention...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like a hoax to me!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

for those who CAN read portuguese, the blog is here:
http://www.cocadaboa.com/archives/003671.php

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Well for one thing a "reversed version" would in fact be quite a bit similar to the original version. Just reversed.

― djdee2005, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

.aedi citsatnaF

― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

a viable escapeway through the tight net RIAA is throwing to all music downloaders: as the inverted tracks aren't a bit similar as the correct versions, RIAA cannot sue for copyright breach.

Assuming, of course, that the RIAA lawyers' grasp on copyright law is as weak as the blogger's.

― no opinion, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

lol... I was reading a comment on the original blog about that same point... From the moment that the playing method (winamp + plugin for 3PM reading) is recognized by RIAA, it will be immediately sactioned...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

that was "sanctioned", of course...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

sactioned.

― dssiu, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

If that were the case then MP3s (Oggs, WMAs, M4As, etc.)would be legal since they aren't the original waveforms. This is just one more level of encoding, one small(stupid, pointless) step tacked on to the process. In fact, it's still just an MP3 really. The extra step of reading it backwards really isn't anything. Rather than starting to read the file from the front, you read it from the back. It screws with software created to recognize a particular stream of bytes as being a song, but only until the software is updated. This has to be one of the most rediculous ideas I've seen in a long time. Shoot, we could rot13 MP3s and they'd still be illegal because they'd still be a copy of the song you didn't pay for. The format doesn't make it illegal, its the fact that you're downloading a song and not paying for it.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha the new ZC3 format is unbreakable!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Someday, the guilt of downloading is going to consume me...at which point, I'm sending emails to the RIAA with a .zip attachments full of 0's and another full of 1's with a note reading "Here's all the songs I've downloaded. I've disassembled them for your convenience."

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, thats great.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

come on people, this is clearly a joke

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-b-b-but it's in Portugese

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the AAIR will shut this idea down

― cassius_clay, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Say AAIR, please.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sendthemback.org/

lots of helpful ways to atone for your lil net transgressions...

― too much for my mirror (too much for my mirror), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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