Re: [linux-audio-user] The Open Loop Library, a few questions

But wait, there's more! :) This now brings us to the "prevention of upload of copyrighted sample sets / loops / patches" part of the design. If we have a working checksum database to check against stored metadata, why not gather all of the checksums we can for every loop library for Acid, every sample set for Gigasampler / Unity Session / etc. that we can get our hands on (legally)? Remember, we're only running these through MD5 to get a checksum, then uploading the checksum to the server. Here's the good part, although I'm sure most of you are ahead of me. Whenever a user uploads a loop or sample set, the server will first decompress the file, then run an MD5 on it, which will then be compared to the checksum database. Any matches are flagged for removal by an administrator.