What we have found is that no one has been able to crack our code. The major labels have entrusted us with their content and one of the reasons that they've done this is because our system hasn't been tampered with or broken into. Napster has licensed from them a technology called Genuine Music, which tracks the origin and ownership of a digital music file. Which brings us to players. The consumer doesn't want to have to download five different players.
Critics bring up a couple of problems.
One is the database of music that the individual song files have to be checked against. With so many recordings in existence, it's a daunting prospect to create a comprehensive database. That central database also means that fingerprints have to be checked online, unlike watermark readings. Tuneprint proposes a fusion of the two systems to combine their strengths, but this idea drew only a laugh from Rosso. Rosso doubts that this would happen, especially since samples are usually laid on top of something else, making the sound different.