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Grand Theft Piano fraudery revealed

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    Posted 22 May 2007 - 03:28 PM

    Pretty interesting article I found.

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      Posted 23 May 2007 - 01:24 AM

      I had heard the story awhile ago, but it's still pretty interesting. A very unique scam, I'll give her that.

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        Posted 23 May 2007 - 07:44 PM

        Not to mention it was Gracenote (iTunes-related software) that discovered it.

        Here's a link/quote on how it was found:

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        So what did Gracenote see that had eluded the expertly trained ears of critics who had showered Hatto’s recordings with nothing but praise? Every CD is composed of tiny chunks of audio, 1/75th of a second each, according to Ty Roberts, Gracenote cofounder and chief technology officer. When a CD is placed into a stereo or a computer, all the player can tell is how many tracks live on the disc and where they begin and end. Say track 2 of a CD starts at 3 minutes and 30 seconds into the CD. By the time the song begins, 15,750 blocks of audio, each 1/75th of a second in duration, have ticked by. (Do the math yourself: three and a half minutes is 210 seconds. Multiply that by 75 and you get 15,750 of those mini chunks of audio, called frames.). By the time you get to the 10th track, hundreds of thousands, often more than a million, of frames have ticked by. These are the numbers Gracenote reads.

        “It’s like we’re creating a phone number for the CD,” says Roberts. When you stick a CD into your laptop and iTunes tells you that it’s checking in with Gracenote, what it’s doing is reading how many tracks and frames are on your disc and searching the 6-million-strong CD database for a match. “If you only have three or five tracks, it’s very hard for someone else to have a recording that is exactly the same length to 75th of a second. The chance you have 13 tracks that have exactly the same starting position is something like 10 to the negative 13th power.” So when Gracenote told Ventura that he had loaded a Laszlo Simon disc, it was very likely something fishy was afoot. “It’s a little murder-mystery thing: a shoe print in the show,” says Roberts. “The shoe print doesn’t fit the woman.”


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          Posted 25 May 2007 - 08:15 AM

          I forgot to ask: did they find out what she'd done before or after she died?

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            Posted 25 May 2007 - 08:16 AM

            They claimed to have found out after her death.

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              Posted 25 May 2007 - 08:31 AM

              I was just curious if she'd have to answer for it or not.
              It's an interesting idea though. Yes it's illegal but it was still well thought out.


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