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Nielsen To Offer Web Copyright Protection System
J053 writes "The Nielsen company, along with Digimarc, are planning to offer their digital watermarking technology to web content providers. According to Information Week, the system will provide 'a way to quickly discover unauthorized content on sites. To do that, the system would leverage Nielsen's existing watermark technology, which is used on more than 95% of TV programming distributed today. The watermarks are used by the meters installed in people's home to identify the programs they watch.'"
I love these stories so much, reading the tortured logic, absurd dystopian predictions, and whiny entitled cries of "entertain me!"
It really makes my day.
Of course, the central point ignored by the greedy entertainment collectors who don't wish to pay for the collection is the underlying truth that if you remove the economic incentive to create entertainment, people aren't going to do it any more. But ignore that! For now, the majority of people do the right thing and pay, so you get to freeload off of them as well. It's win-win! You get something for nothing! What more can you ask for than to have your lifestyle subsidized by the decent hardworking people you claim to represent?
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
You're an idiot.
Go take a chill pill.
How we know is more important than what we know.