It emerged earlier this month that a patent has been granted for a method of sabotaging peer-to-peer file sharing networks by flooding them with decoy files.
The patent, granted on May 4 to John C. Hale and Gavin W. Manes of the University of Tulsa, covers technology designed to create cloned files which appear as authentic music files on P2P networks, when in actual fact they contain nothing more than white noise, or advertisements for the genuine material.
The number of cloned files created would make it nearly impossible for file sharers to separate the 'spoofed' files from the genuine content.
According to reports, the patent holders plan to market the technology to record labels, software companies, and movie studios.
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