While I did not read the article or any posts; this measure won't be successful either. It is similar to [essentially] movie houses who provide DVD Screeners to reviewers and/or rental stores with a unique id # to which try to identify the source of the leak - which are in turn obscured upon re-release and re encoding [and removal of the 5 sec intro] of these particular releases should obscure the identity of the original user.
Movie houses and the recording industry in general need to recognize the real underlying issue of cost to the end user. When then market is fair in regards to both cost and the removal of restrictions [DRM], piracy will decline accordingly. When their focus changes from protecting their broken business model to creating a fair and viable one, their true issue should cease to be a concern.
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While I did not read the article or any posts; this measure won't be successful either. It is similar to [essentially] movie houses who provide DVD Screeners to reviewers and/or rental stores with a unique id # to which try to identify the source of the leak - which are in turn obscured upon re-release and re encoding [and removal of the 5 sec intro] of these particular releases should obscure the identity of the original user.
Movie houses and the recording industry in general need to recognize the real underlying issue of cost to the end user. When then market is fair in regards to both cost and the removal of restrictions [DRM], piracy will decline accordingly. When their focus changes from protecting their broken business model to creating a fair and viable one, their true issue should cease to be a concern.