Audible Magic Press Release
Audible Magic Enhances RepliCheck™ Content Identification Service to Include Software Titles
LOS GATOS, California — October 29, 2002 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and media information services, today announced an enhancement of its RepliCheck™ service for the media replication industry. RepliCheck 2.0 provides media replicators with an automated tool to review incoming projects for software piracy. In addition to its existing ability to verify over 3.4 million copyrighted songs, Replicheck 2.0 identifies over 10,000 PC applications from over 1,000 software companies. This includes nearly all major and specialty software titles in use today, with new titles added on an on-going basis. With the ability to identify both songs and software titles, Replicheck 2.0 is the only comprehensive content verification solution available to media replicators.
“RepliCheck is the most accurate automated song identification system available, and it has been a helpful tool in the audio portion of our anti-piracy program here at Disc Makers” said Paul Kott, Anti-Piracy Compliance Screener. “We’re looking forward to the ROM identification capabilities planned by Replicheck, and hope that these new functions will enhance even more our existing anti-piracy program.”
Installed on a PC, Replicheck 2.0 can scan a master disc on a CD, hard drive, or other storage media. The program generates a digital fingerprint for each software application on the disc, and references these fingerprints over the Internet against Audible Magic’s reference database. If a copyright match is found, RepliCheck returns the title, publisher, version and copyright date of the application. The service immediately generates a report that can be matched against a customer’s copyright license.
“We believe the replication industry wants to do the right thing when it comes to anti-piracy, and this is a broad and highly accurate solution that enables replicators to do just that,” said Vance Ikezoye, founder and CEO of Audible Magic. “This automates what has been an error-prone, manual process, providing replicators with much better proof of copyright compliance in much less time.”
Replicheck 2.0 identifies copyrighted songs in a similar manner and reports song title, label, artist and copyright date for each file. Audible Magic’s reference database, one of the largest in the world, covers the entire North American catalog and is constantly updated with new releases.
Price and Availability
Replicheck 2.0 will be available in December, with beta tests in November. Pricing for RepliCheck 2.0 will be on a subscription basis based on volume. The service requires Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer and an Internet connection. The first release will cover PC software. Mac software will be added in a later release.
About Audible Magic, Inc.
Audible Magic Corporation provides content management and anti-piracy services to the media and entertainment industries as well as to business, governmental, and educational institutions. The company's offerings utilize patented content identification technologies and an extensive reference database of audio and video content. Its digital technology and services are designed to monitor, track, manage, filter, and monetize digital content in all of its forms. The company has been active providing solutions for the Web 2.0 user-generated content video sharing sites.
Audible Magic has long-term relationships with the major record labels that have registered their content in the company’s database that holds one of the largest collections of copyrighted digital song recording fingerprints in the world. Corporate partners include EMI Recorded Music, Palisade Systems, Sony/BMG Music, Universal Music Group, V2 Music, Warner Music Group, and EMI Recorded Music. Audible Magic’s technology is also employed by Grouper, iMesh and PlayLouder MSP music service. Other major market customers include over 70 educational institutions and the media manufacturing industry. Audible Magic’s products include the CopySense P2P Plug-In; CopySense Network Appliance, and RepliCheck.
The Company was founded in 1999, and it operates from offices in Los Gatos, Los Angeles, and Berkeley, California.
For more information, visit Audible Magic’s website at www.audiblemagic.com.
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