The latest fad in P2P isn't P2P at all. Some clever soul has created a simple interface that allows the layperson to search using Google for Mp3's.
Something tells me this won't last long. "Quick and dirty website allowing you to search Google for MP3s. No need to remember all those funny codes and parameters."
Funny codes and parameters indeed. A few quick tests with the G2P interface show that it does find files containing the artist name, and with an extension of "mp3". The trick uses a default behavior of the Apache webserver to identify pages that have been indexed in Google containing the standard Apache boilerplate that is generated when a published directory has no index file.
While Google, quite obviously, passes the "substantial non-infringing uses" test layed out in U.S. court decisions, the G2P interface does not.
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1. > While Google, quite obviously, passes the
> "substantial non-infringing uses" test layed
> out in U.S. court decisions, the G2P
> interface does not.
Does it only search copyrighted media? I think not! So it does have substantial non-infringing uses. There's lots of free music on the net, not all artists have signed their rights away for their creative works.
Posted at 5:32AM on Jun 26th 2006 by Fraser