After the launch of AnonBin, alternative of PasteBin now hacktvist group is reportedly putting together a social music platform that will surely ruffle the RIAA's feathers. The project is called Anontune,
and is designed to pull songs from third-party sources like YouTube.
Users can throw the songs into playlists and share them with friends.
The Anontune service relies on executing a Java applet. "Unless you are
extremely trusting or using VMWare, you should think very carefully
about running code on your machine that was written by members of
Anonymous,"
They insist that Anontune will
not host copyrighted material and will not be streaming music or
offering downloads of copyrighted material. Instead, they plan to focus
on information and they compare the platform to a search engine. "The
information can be used to play and centralize pervasive music across
the Internet on one platform." It's unclear exactly how this site will
operate, but Anonymous seems to think that the law will be on their side
this. "The idea is that if all songs were easily accessible and
centralized on one user-friendly platform that it would be possible to
hijack all current users of music piracy solutions," Anonymous describes in an Anontune white paper (pdf).
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