Re: Dear EFF: Please don't pick the wrong fight

>> You should bear in mind that in practice server-side individual
>> watermarking probably wouldn't scale.
>
> figuring out how to make that scale is the industries problem, it's likely
> gonna be expensive, that's just the tradeoff to requiring that kind of control
> over massive traffic-streams
>
@Mark, how do you think DRM would fix this anyway? If I have the
credentials of my friend, theorically I could be able to see the same
content he has, so the only solution here is to apply per-user
credentials and encryption, that's a more CPU demmanding problem that
just add a custom watermark between some frames each some minutes on
the stream...


>> Our server guys resist even looking at the bytes as they flow from disk to
>> NIC. It would be a big change to the design and economics of content
>> delivery to do individual watermarking server-side. You can do the
>> watermarking client-side, but then you have the same requirements for robust
>> non-user-modifiable code.
>
> there's always the option of not entering the arms race of attempted artificial
> scarcity, accepting the basic non-scarce nature of digital goods, and
> competing on the basis of service and convenience instead of control.
>
+1



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Received on Tuesday, 8 October 2013 14:50:29 UTC