Music lovers busily downloading their favorite songs on Napster before the website blocks copyrighted tunes may look to new software that disguises artists' songs by using a variation of pig Latin, a report said today.
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A Canadian firm, run by graduates and students on the campus of the University of Toronto, created a program that will disguise the names of artists and MP3 digital music files by changing them into pig Latin, the
National Post
reported.
An estimated 20,000 people have already downloaded the program from PulseNewMedia, said James Chillcott, the firm's chief executive.
A March 6th court injunction ordered Napster to block access to copyrighted music sent over its computers once it is notified by a copyright owner of a violation.
The music industry and some artists believe the popular music-swapping website, which has attracted more than 60 million users worldwide in less than two years, allows for massive piracy of copyrighted songs.
Once users install the Canadian software, MP3 file names - usually the names of music groups - are translated to pig Latin, a made-up language in which words start with their first vowel and any preceding consonants are moved to the end. For example, Metallica becomes "etallicam."
Chillcott expects his NapCameBack.com site will only be around for a couple of months, during which time he hopes to rake in millions through advertising revenue.
AFP
