From Wired there is an interesting story about Overpeer. They step through their basic operating procedure, admitting during it that they download music off p2p. Then they say that is not really what they are doing.
Most of Marc Morganstern’s top clients won’t publicly acknowledge hiring his company.
And, for his part, Morganstern can’t reveal the names of clients he describes as the leading music, film and game-development companies. As part of their contract with Overpeer, of which Morganstern is CEO, all parties sign a confidentiality agreement.
Why the secrecy? Unable to snuff out file-swapping networks in court, record labels and other media outfits are shifting their anti-peer-to-peer crusade to a new venue: the file-trading networks themselves. That’s where Overpeer comes in.
According to Morganstern, who is a former vice president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Overpeer is the leading antipiracy company in terms of “the number of acts of piracy we avert through our technology.”Overpeer protects “literally thousands and thousands of titles of multiple content types right now for various clients,” he said.
Overpeer’s patent application offers a few more clues. The application, which credits Overpeer board members Cheol-Woong Lee and Chang-Young Lee as inventors, describes the methodology:
1) Search for digital music file on network.
2) Collect illegally produced digital music file.
3) Edit illegally produced digital music file (damage sound quality).
4) Distribute digital music file on network.
Morganstern said this description is “not completely accurate,” but declined to say how it errs, citing the need to keep his company’s technology under wraps.
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