Re: Windows Media Database

 

 

 

well based on what we know you cannot detect the watermark after the file has been encrypted.

 

Ah! I understand what you’re saying now, thanks. I think of watermarking as mainly being useful post-crack, in which case that can be done.

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[Christopher Levy] Well actually some of the online video sites are looking at using Watermarking to “allow” content into their systems I.E. if you try to upload a John Stewart clip and it doesn̵7;t have the right watermark in it then it won’t publish. This is one approach to using watermarking. There is then of course the conventional “detect and protect221; approach to compliance and monitoring of premium content which is where most of the market is focused today.

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I have not seen any real good personalized watermarked content business models yet but am sure they exist or will shortly.

 

DRM and watermarking aren’;t business models any more than alarm tags on clothing are business models (unless you’re the person selling alarm tags and the rest of the infrastructure required to support them, of course).

[Christopher Levy] Clearly they are technologies that businesses are selling in the marketplace as they are needed and in some cases required.  I think you know this J

 

For everybody else, DRM and watermarking are means for making digital shoplifting a bit harder and detecting/tracking illegal redistribution, respectively.

[Christopher Levy] Agreed. I think I was referring to that above. You said the same thing I did only you moved your hands differently ala the FedEx commercials J