On 10/23/2011 02:53 PM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
On 23 October 2011 at 21:44, Nick Copeland<nickycopeland(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I'm
looking for a Linux solution to watermarking audio
Are you looking at an open operating system to help you close your=20
mind? Forget the technical issues involved=2C I personally think you are=20
talking to the wrong community: watermarking is a means of restricting=20
distribution of visual material.=20
Linux is not about restricting distribution of anything.
Perhaps you should raise these questions on one of the Apple mailing=20
lists where you will meet equally paranoid minds. Bringing these issues
up on this list is out of line.
Have you ever signed a file with GNUPG? That's a watermark. Have
you ever used an SHA or MD5 signature of a file, and verified those
signatures with GNUPG?
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,
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.
-gabriel