Talk:Madster
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"The reason was that Madster encrypted the contents of the files, which made it impossible for the RIAA to determine who were illegally sharing their protected music"
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This line is mostly false. Madster did start to release more software tools such as the Pig Encoder to change filenames to piglatin, and tools that actually did start to encrypt the files of users. However, the Madster client never encrypted files on the user's computer and the only encryptions with the Madster service were the text encryption of all filenames when sent to the server, and the encryption of all network traffic between the client and server.
It is true that the servers never had the actual filenames of files being shared. There was a simple 1->1 text mapping of all filenames before being sent to the server. Every search query from the client was then mapped using this scheme, so that the server could search without knowing the real search terms or filenames it was searching. When the results were returned to the client, the client mapped the filenames back to the real ones.
This was also part of the segmented company defense, since technically BuddyUSA was using a proprietary encryption scheme that AbovePeer was not privy to, and any attempt to crack it (so that they could filter out copyrighted material), would violate the DMCA.