Computers and music fraud

[mart]

A news item in The Gramophone about piano recordings by Joyce Hatto contains this fascinating story:
"Several days ago, another Gramophone critic was contacted by a reader who had put a Hatto Liszt CD ? the 12 Transcendental Studies ? into his computer to listen to, and something awfully strange happened. His computer's player identified the disc as, yes, the Liszts, but not a Hatto recording. Instead, his display suggested that the disc was one on BIS Records, by the pianist L?szlo Simon. Mystified, our critic checked his Hatto disc against the actual Simon recording, and to his amazement they sounded exactly the same.

In then went a recording of Hatto playing two Rachmaninov Piano Concertos and, sure enough, his computer's CD player listed it as another ? by Yefim Bronfman, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, on Sony. Again, the critic compared, and again he could hear no difference."

Mart

[BlueRaa]

I like it. The PC will recognise the tune bit for bit, so anyone ripping off someone else's tracks will be fucked by their PC. Nice!