Abstract
IIHMSP05.PDF - R. van Schyndel
"A Preliminary Design for a Privacy-friendly Free P2P Media File Distribution System",
International Workshop on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP) - part of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES), Melbourne, September 2005, Vol. 3, pp. 1018-1024
In most P2P business models, in which users purchase the media, it is
necessary to securely identify the user in order to facilitate payment.
In this paper, we present a technique for allowing the widespread
sharing of certain media formats including music using a method that
keeps track of media possession and other marketing information, but in
a way that does not require user identification. For the user, the main
attraction of this scheme is that their identity is not a requirement,
usage of reduced-quality media within this system is free and that
extended media search is facilitated as an attraction to remain within
the system. The content creators and distributors are compensated by
this system by them having access to potentially large-scale actual
usage and music trading statistics. The preliminary system design
presented here, can cleanly coexist with a full-quality music purchase
business model, also described briefly.
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