Re: Watermarking [Re: Campaign for position of chair and mandate to close this community group] from Duncan Bayne on 2014-01-14 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from January 2014)

From: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:27:11 -0800
To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, "Danny O'Brien" <danny@eff.org>
Cc: Olivier Thereaux <olivier.thereaux@bbc.co.uk>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-Id: <1389659231.24754.70356085.3E8469BF@webmail.messagingengine.com>

> Applying a watermark is a CPU intensive operation, so you're talking
> about a wholesale change in the physical equipment deployed at the network
> edge

Leaving that aside for a moment though: even in a world where
server-side watermarking cost nothing, would that be an acceptable
solution?  I.e. would 'big media' accept it in lieu of
non-user-modifiable client components?

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