24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
1:45 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
<gabrbedd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's my understanding that "watermarks"
are more than this. That you can
add a watermark to a CD and that if it is played on a computer it has a
phone-home feature so that Big Brother will know that an (un)authorised
person has been given control of the CD.
I never did research to see if these black helicopters are real or not,
For a limited number of albums, and usage on windows, this may be
true:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
However, my brother-in-law in Nashville used to get to
listen to
pre-released albums... but since he wasn't the official reviewer, he needed
to play the CD's only in audio CD players -- since playing it on a PC would
get him and his source in Big Trouble.
So just put it in an audio CD player with SPDIF out. (So you can copy
the watermark bit-for-bit :-) )....
To clarify some obvious confusion in previous discussion.:Watermarking
is not DRM.
Watermarking is used to find the source of leaked copies of
copyrighted material, or, potentially, for tracking "viral" material
released into the wild.
For example, watermarking was used to name and shame --
http://ninjatune.net/ie/article/2011/jul/18/ninja-tune-on-leaks -- a
certain journo who got a prerelease copy of albums and shared it...
-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com