Re: hacksdmi?

[David Knaack <dknaack () RDTECH COM>]

From: "Steve Mosher" <farq () KILN ISN NET>
> The only way to really make it work (as I see it) is to make the
> watermark a *fundamental* portion of the sound, but that would be entirely
> moot since there's no way to apply the watermark to existing sound, thus
> it's useless.

I'm very curious what use the watermark has.  It seems that
image recognition techniques could be applied to music such
that a particular performance could be reliably identifed
without adding anything to the format.

Of course destroying the recognizable patterns bypasses
this; then you have what I would consider a different
(possably derivate) work.

The only other use I can think of for a watermarke is to
'personalize' a recording with a digital ID of the person
that has aquired the right to play it.  But, I think that
is a silly thing to do.

> > Ps. Thanks to everyone who hasn't participated in the hacksdmi contest.
> > Your efforts to defend civil rights & fair use all over the earth is
much
> > appriciated :)

I'm guessing that its already been hacked and the code to
write and remove the watermark will be released shortly
after technology using it is released.

DK