Re: Watermarking through word swapping

All,

Two points to bear in mind with respect to watermarking for video.

Firstly, waternarking at the server side is expensive and likely would not
scale easily. At least, for our part, we find a very strong advantage in
the ability to use very simple, high-capacity web serving infrastructure
for content.

Secondly, watermarking at the client raises some of the same issues that
have been raised with DRM, specifically the need for non-user-modifiable
components to do the watermarking.

Nevertheless, there is obviously the possibility that the content may then
be made more available for additional uses.

...Mark

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote:

> FYI
>
>
> In
> http://paidcontent.org/2013/06/14/new-ebook-drm-will-change-the-text-of-a-story-to-prevent-piracy/
>
> > Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is working on a new ebook DRM dubbed
> SiDiM that would prevent piracy by changing the actual text of a story,
> swapping out words to make individualized copies that could be tracked by
> the original owner of the ebook.
>
> […]
>
> > But here’s the twist: German blog Lesen.net pointed out that the book
> publishers actually joined because they’re interested in finding
> alternatives to the traditional lock-down approach of DRM, simply because
> they’ve learned in the past that even the strongest lock can be broken.
>
> --
> Karl Dubost
> http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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>
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