Audible Magic’s CopySense Appliance — First Network Device Specifically Designed to Control P2P

First Network Device Specifically Designed To Control P2P

LOS GATOS, California — October 21, 2003 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and anti-piracy solutions, today announced the CopySense™ Network Appliance, the first product to give network administrators comprehensive control over P2P file trading. The product provides the broadest range of options for managing P2P usage, including:

  • Block only P2P transfers of copyrighted materials.
  • Block all P2P transfers.
  • Identify and log P2P usage.
  • Limit P2P traffic to a specified amount of bandwidth.
  • Establish specific rules for downloads or uploads from the network.Read more

Audible Magic and Palisade Systems Partner to Filter Illegal P2P File Transfers

LOS GATOS, California — September 9, 2003 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and identification services, announced today it has partnered with Palisade Systems, a developer of network management and security solutions. The two companies will cross-license their technologies and work jointly to develop the first network appliances that identify copyrighted works “on the fly” combined with the ability to block individual trades. Both companies will develop products, with the first to come from Audible Magic in the fourth quarter of this year.Read more


Audible Magic Licenses DSP Technology to Adobe Systems

LOS GATOS, California — September 4, 2003 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and media information services, announced today the company has licensed software libraries, used for digital signal processing (DSP) of audio content, to Adobe Systems Incorporated. The libraries will be integrated into Adobe® Premier® Pro, the latest version of Adobe’s award-winning professional video editing software, announced on July 7th. The libraries contain algorithms developed by Audible Magic’s Muscle Fish division, the same division that developed the company’s patented solutions for audio fingerprinting. Acquired by Audible Magic two years ago, Muscle Fish was founded by a group of senior audio engineers from the sound research labs of Yamaha Corporation.Read more


SESAC Broadcasts its Use of CMJ’s RAM Service to Assist with Royalty Distribution

Service Powered by Audible Magic’s Patented Digital Audio Identification Technology

LOS GATOS, California — August 27, 2003 — The CMJ Network and Audible Magic have announced that SESAC has become the first corporate customer to utilize data from CMJ’s Realtime Airplay Metrics (RAM) airplay reporting service. RAM, the first service to comprehensively track airplay on college, non-commercial and “early-adopter” radio, utilizes Audible Magic’s patented digital audio identification technology. In light of its 25-year artist discovery and development mission, RAM is a natural evolution to CMJ’s growing platform of media, event and data-centric products and services. SESAC, one of the three major performing rights organizations in the USA, will utilize RAM data in its monetization of non-commercial radio and its ongoing effort to improve the accuracy of performance royalty distributions to songwriters and publishers.Read more


Audible Magic Forms Agreement with Universal Music Group to Support its RepliCheck Anti-Piracy System

LOS GATOS, California — August 12, 2003 — Today Audible Magic, a provider of technology and services that enable secure and reliable identification of audio and video, announced that it has reached an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company, to support RepliCheck, Audible Magic’s anti-piracy information system. Under this non-exclusive agreement, UMG will become the first major music company to directly deliver its music electronically for inclusion in the RepliCheck database. This will ensure that UMG artists’ music is registered in RepliCheck’s anti-piracy database at the time of release. The RepliCheck database is one of the largest in the world, currently numbering 3.7 million songs, with more than 5 – 10,000 new songs added each week.Read more


Audible Magic’s Replicheck 2.1 Offers Enhanced Performance and Reporting for Music and Software Identification

MEDIA-TECH; LAS VEGAS, Nevada — May 13, 2003 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and identification services, today announced RepliCheck™ 2.1, an enhanced version of its anti-piracy verification service for copyrighted music and software.Read more


EMI Recorded Music Signs Agreement with Audible Magic as Preferred Provider of Audio Fingerprinting Services

First Major Label to Contract with a Provider of Content-Based Identification (CBID) Technology

LOS GATOS, California — October 29, 2002 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and media information services, announced today it has entered into an agreement with EMI Recorded Music as its preferred vendor for audio fingerprinting technology. The agreement, the first between a major label and a provider of content-based identification (CBID) technology services, indicates a strong endorsement of Audible Magic and its range of solutions for identifying, monitoring and tracking multimedia content.Read more


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.Read more


Audible Magic Acquires Technology for Reporting File Exchanges by Peer-To-Peer Applications

Acquisition From ipArchive Offers New Solution for Monitoring and Managing Bandwidth Demands on Corporate and ISP Networks

LOS GATOS, California — July 8, 2002 — Audible Magic Corporation (www.audiblemagic.com), a leading provider of content management and information services for the media and entertainment industries, announced today it has acquired a network monitoring technology that identifies peer-to-peer applications, applications users, and specific files exchanged. Developed by former internet-startup ipArchive, it offers top down and detail views to IT administrators and ISPs for monitoring and managing bandwidth demands generated by peer-to-peer application traffic.Read more


CMJ Network and Audible Magic Announce Long-Term Agreement

Audio Identification Technology Company Powers New CMJ Service: Realtime Airplay Monitor (RAM)

NEW YORK, NY — March 18, 2002 — The CMJ Network has entered into a long-term agreement with Audible Magic, a leading provider of digital audio identification technology, to provide the music industry with state-of-the-art radio airplay tracking information for new and emerging music. The announcement was jointly made by Jay B. Ziskrout, The CMJ Network’s VP Business Operations, and Vance Ikezoye, CEO of Audible Magic. CMJ and Audible Magic will monitor college, non-commercial, and a variety of other “early adopter” radio stations with the objective of providing quantitative and qualitative market information to assist the in the discovery and development of new and emerging music.Read more