Re: off: Audio CD's and Microsoft
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On 9/15/07, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070912/tc_pcworld/137106 > > Read this, you thought DRM endcoding music was bad... this is sick. > there "tracking" you... This has a number of possibly beneficial applications as well... small artists have been screaming for decades for a way of more equitably tracking royalties (hell, making any effort to properly track royalties at all). Naturally, in Microsoft's hands, one would worry about the potentially evil applications as well. Which will we get? Probably the one that makes businesses the most money. In general, American legal theory tends to guarantee a right to privacy, but *not* anonymity, and individual watermarking does not really violate that precept. You do not necessarily have a right to be invisible in public. Also, steganographic watermarking exists in many other copied media already. Eg, there's a decipherable signature buried in many (most?) photocopies, etc... How is watermarked music inherently more evil? Consider these points for discussion. Monty