Re: Question of the day: iTunes + Watermarking?

["Aaron Turner" <synfinatic () gmail com>]

On 7/9/06, Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:
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> So my question of the day is this. If two different people buy the same
> song from iTunes, and then both of them burn it to CD, and then both of
> them rip it into a 44K raw file (say, a .wav), is it different?
>
> Apple seems very blase about the ability of consumers to break their
> copy protection this way, and I don't believe it's because burning to
> CD's takes time and energy. I believe it's because they can track down
> large violations on super-distribution systems (kazaa, etc) to individuals.
>
> Of course, I could be wrong. Someone would have to do the test and find out.

Seems highly dubious, especially considering the wide variety of
encodings and encoding engines.  Even if you could find a watermark
which doesn't degrade the sound and can survive encoding into .wav,
.mp3, .ogg, etc you'd still have to add a unique watermark for each
individual track that is downloaded by each iTunes account.  Besides,
they already encode your AppleID the .m4p's:

http://www.hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/#secret

Frankly, I suspect you're giving Apple way too much credit.  Apple's
policy seems to be:

We know DRM doesn't really work, so we'll put enough fair-use features
to keep honest people happy so they won't bother trying to break the
DRM.

-- 
Aaron Turner
http://synfin.net/
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