I think that being able to watermark your music files is a great thing. And since I'm not Blackbeard or I don't worry about that sort of thing, but it is important to understand that the Music industry still isn't providing the product the way that they do when you buy a CD. CDs come DRM Free and Watermark Free.
We have seen the watermark issue come to light most recently with the Movie Industries advanced copies of Oscar Nominee Movies that were copied then sent onto bit torrent. Each copy was watermarked prior to sending it out, and the release was traced to one individual.
Knowing about watermarks is a precautionary tale. Imagine they put these non-drm'd files out there with the singular intent of conducting a dragnet, not that I worry about being caught up in that, but Parents and other adults could be at risk and not even know it.
Finally, if you bought a car, like an On-Star, and it is great! It helps you out if you need your door unlocked, or you want dinner reservations or whatever. But then you're speeding down the road to make it to the hospital, because your kid is there for an injury. You get into an accident, and On-Star has all that information about your speed recorded in its computer, and provides it to law enforcement and your insurance company.
Wouldn't you like to know if your car was going to do that sort of thing before you bought it?
Wouldn't you like to know that the music you buy has YOUR NAME encoded into the file when you buy it?
Just a point that we need to have knowledge to make the appropriate decisions for ourselves. -SailorJ
I can't believe that not a single person has mentioned the fact that even though you buy a track DRM free, it doesn't mean that they can't still add the watermark that actually connects the file to YOU when you buy it from the store. So when you give it to your friends, they can track all the copies in the wild back to you!
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I think that being able to watermark your music files is a great thing. And since I'm not Blackbeard or I don't worry about that sort of thing, but it is important to understand that the Music industry still isn't providing the product the way that they do when you buy a CD. CDs come DRM Free and Watermark Free.
We have seen the watermark issue come to light most recently with the Movie Industries advanced copies of Oscar Nominee Movies that were copied then sent onto bit torrent. Each copy was watermarked prior to sending it out, and the release was traced to one individual.
Knowing about watermarks is a precautionary tale. Imagine they put these non-drm'd files out there with the singular intent of conducting a dragnet, not that I worry about being caught up in that, but Parents and other adults could be at risk and not even know it.
Finally, if you bought a car, like an On-Star, and it is great! It helps you out if you need your door unlocked, or you want dinner reservations or whatever. But then you're speeding down the road to make it to the hospital, because your kid is there for an injury. You get into an accident, and On-Star has all that information about your speed recorded in its computer, and provides it to law enforcement and your insurance company.
Wouldn't you like to know if your car was going to do that sort of thing before you bought it?
Wouldn't you like to know that the music you buy has YOUR NAME encoded into the file when you buy it?
Just a point that we need to have knowledge to make the appropriate decisions for ourselves.
-SailorJ
I can't believe that not a single person has mentioned the fact that even though you buy a track DRM free, it doesn't mean that they can't still add the watermark that actually connects the file to YOU when you buy it from the store. So when you give it to your friends, they can track all the copies in the wild back to you!