It's already possible to get tons of bootleg music. Just check out the next music con at your local venue. SDMI will simply push this out into the mainstream.
Since watermarking is done as a post process (Music (A) becomes music (A') through watermarking) All those engineers and other hangers on would have all the more reason to make away with the pre-processed media.
Look for bootleg version of your favorite SDMI watermarked music at a music con/ used CD store near you!
I've used a system that sounds a lot like this. It's called "ClearCase" and it's a configuration management system.
It manages files in a big database and tags them with "versions". To modify a file, you check it out and to save it to the database you check it in. Nothing particularly innovative here. The cool part is how you "see" the files you care about.
First you create a "view". You can have as many of these as you want. Each view is configured to select files based on a set of rules. The rules are simple, like LATEST (most receintly checked in) or VERSION 5 or DATE(1/16/2001). The rules can be applied to all files in the system or specific files or directories.
What this means is that you can have multiple open views and list a specific directory in each of them and receive a different listing for each view simultaniously. The performance is very good across a LAN (the file system is server based)
You are able to attach other metadata to each file or version of a file. Attributes can be created and values assigned.
The configuration language is not SQL and is not designed to be very dynamic. But it is extremely usefull for development project management.
Why should only MS be able to sign executables? If the authoring company (or distributor) signed the executable then the binary could be verified against a trusted source. That way, when I downloaded the driver update I would know it was from the same place. Since the issuing company does the signing there's no worry about "licensing lag"
Of course that "trusted" source might be MS, but for MS apps, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
How about a system that doesn't continuously track my location, but will securely identify me at a time and place.
If all I want is an alibi, then what I need is a trusted device that can accept my digital signature and generate an ID and timestamp unique to the location.
Suppose I was at Sharkies bar. I could go to the "Location Verification Kiosk"(which might also serve as a public telephone) and for a $1.00 fee it will accept my digital signature (from my PDA) and generate a digital time/location stamp placed in my PDA. For an additional $1.00 it will print a paper receipt with bar code so I can show my wife (or parole officer.)
Of course you'd need to be moderately paranoid of being framed of a crime, or under suspicion to need such a service.
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I would think that the telescope slewing across the sky would not allow for exposures of this length?
It's already possible to get tons of bootleg music. Just check out the next music con at your local venue. SDMI will simply push this out into the mainstream.
Since watermarking is done as a post process (Music (A) becomes music (A') through watermarking) All those engineers and other hangers on would have all the more reason to make away with the pre-processed media.
Look for bootleg version of your favorite SDMI watermarked music at a music con/ used CD store near you!
=MikeT
I've used a system that sounds a lot like this. It's called "ClearCase" and it's a configuration management system.
It manages files in a big database and tags them with "versions". To modify a file, you check it out and to save it to the database you check it in. Nothing particularly innovative here. The cool part is how you "see" the files you care about.
First you create a "view". You can have as many of these as you want. Each view is configured to select files based on a set of rules. The rules are simple, like LATEST (most receintly checked in) or VERSION 5 or DATE(1/16/2001). The rules can be applied to all files in the system or specific files or directories.
What this means is that you can have multiple open views and list a specific directory in each of them and receive a different listing for each view simultaniously. The performance is very good across a LAN (the file system is server based)
You are able to attach other metadata to each file or version of a file. Attributes can be created and values assigned.
The configuration language is not SQL and is not designed to be very dynamic. But it is extremely usefull for development project management.
Why should only MS be able to sign executables? If the authoring company (or distributor) signed the executable then the binary could be verified against a trusted source. That way, when I downloaded the driver update I would know it was from the same place. Since the issuing company does the signing there's no worry about "licensing lag" Of course that "trusted" source might be MS, but for MS apps, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
How about a system that doesn't continuously track my location, but will securely identify me at a time and place.
If all I want is an alibi, then what I need is a trusted device that can accept my digital signature and generate an ID and timestamp unique to the location.
Suppose I was at Sharkies bar. I could go to the "Location Verification Kiosk"(which might also serve as a public telephone) and for a $1.00 fee it will accept my digital signature (from my PDA) and generate a digital time/location stamp placed in my PDA. For an additional $1.00 it will print a paper receipt with bar code so I can show my wife (or parole officer.)
Of course you'd need to be moderately paranoid of being framed of a crime, or under suspicion to need such a service.
=Shreak