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Invisible wrote:
> Yes - but if you aren't the manufacturer, it's just a useless number to
> you. The only reason this is usable is that somebody sat down and
> somehow built a giant database containing all the serial numbers and the
> matching metadata; AFAIK, the manufacturers didn't hand this data over,
> some poor sod collected it.
And that's exactly how it happened. Except replace poor sod with
CD-Ripping community. They'd tag the resultant MP3's and send the data
to CDDB, which would then get sent out to anyone else who ripped the CD.
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~Mike
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