Using Watermarks to Combat Piracy

TheEvilOverlord writes to tell us PC Advisor is reporting that researchers at the Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute have developed a new watermarking system to help track and combat piracy. From the article: "The system lets content providers, such as music studios, embed a watermark in their downloadable MP3 files. Watermark technology makes slight changes to data in sound and image files. For instance, the change could be a higher volume intensity in a tiny part of a song or a brighter colour in a minuscule part of a picture. Even the best-trained human eyes and ears, according to Kip, can't detect the change."

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Shared Account

[Communal Account]

In the spirit of F/OSS, and as an experiment in piracy, tolerance, and free use, I am presenting the Communal Account. You may use this user and password as much as you want, maintain some anonymity, and at the same time contribute without being tagged "coward". As with the GPL, however, free use comes with some responsibility, and that is, let the "open" password remain just as it is -- open.

Will it last an hour? A day? Months? Who knows.

But it will be interesting...

Have fun.

Re:Human?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait- so you are saying that you can find your undies because you leave a unique skidmark in them? That isn't very cute, biocute. In fact, it is quite nasty!!!
Pfft
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