Why Is the Courtesy of the Prey Always Confused with the Courtesy of the Hunters... Pt. I

Recording by Merzbow.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
GBYNS1600594
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2016-07-22
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x80ba51879f84200b8a5a10de8e8e3b045c6a88e02bba69c83dc9590d443f6868
Copyright registration time
2026-06-08T11:13:15+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T13:32:09Z
Bitcoin block
953520
Canonical record hash
sha256:c9e9cb4c2a753e4220cd397492e90e696a26492045d60f442654770142f096e2

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2016, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.