- From: <piranna@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:49:37 +0200
- To: cobaco <cobaco@freemen.be>
- Cc: "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
>> 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 -- "Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo Unix." – Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux
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