Its not about having clean or dirty files. Reading the short article indicates the target here is not downloaders but uploaders. Whether you download a clean file or not is not important, its the original providers responsibility. The effects are external to the average user.
This policy won't work. Not because people will clean the watermarks out making them useless. It is that once a file is out there its out there. So theres a watermark on it that shows Joe Schmoe from god knows where was bad (its not me). Im still going to download and play it. All it takes is one copy (from Belgium for instance) and the measure is defeated.
And issues abound if I buy a CD (unless they propose to pre-watermark every disc and track that with your purchase info- at least thats against VISA/mastercard agreement... for now).
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Its not about having clean or dirty files. Reading the short article indicates the target here is not downloaders but uploaders. Whether you download a clean file or not is not important, its the original providers responsibility. The effects are external to the average user.
This policy won't work. Not because people will clean the watermarks out making them useless. It is that once a file is out there its out there. So theres a watermark on it that shows Joe Schmoe from god knows where was bad (its not me). Im still going to download and play it. All it takes is one copy (from Belgium for instance) and the measure is defeated.
And issues abound if I buy a CD (unless they propose to pre-watermark every disc and track that with your purchase info- at least thats against VISA/mastercard agreement... for now).