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On Sunday 23 October 2011 23:50:08 Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:

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> On 10/23/2011 02:53 PM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

> > On 23 October 2011 at 21:44, Nick Copeland =

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> >>>   I'm looking for a Linux solution to watermarking audio

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> >> Are you looking at an open operating system to help you close your=3D20

> >> mind? Forget the technical issues involved=3D2C I personally think you

> >> are=3D20 talking to the wrong community: watermarking is a means of

> >> restricting=3D20 distribution of visual material.=3D20

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> >> Linux is not about restricting distribution of anything.

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> >> Perhaps you should raise these questions on one of the Apple mailing=

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> >> lists where you will meet equally paranoid minds. Bringing these issues

> >> up on this list is out of line.

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> > Have you ever signed a file with GNUPG?  That's a watermark.  Have

> > you ever used an SHA or MD5 signature of a file, and verified those

> > signatures with GNUPG?

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> It's my understanding that "watermarks" are more than this.  That you

> can add a watermark to a CD and that if it is played on a computer it

> has a phone-home feature so that Big Brother will know that an

> (un)authorised person has been given control of the CD.

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> I never did research to see if these black helicopters are real or not,

> However, my brother-in-law in Nashville used to get to listen to

> pre-released albums... but since he wasn't the official reviewer, he

> needed to play the CD's only in audio CD players -- since playing it on

> a PC would get him and his source in Big Trouble.

Thats what you get from playing sony-cds on a windows machine.

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"feature".
And that was neither a watermark in the audio, nor special track on the cd,=

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just a normal windows boot sector executing a stinking trojan and opening y=

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machine up to code execution from sony (and everyone who hacked sony or kne=

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how to use that insecure backdoor opened by sony on your machine).
Have fun, forget about watermarks, use proper licenses and worry about your=

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creativity and not about keeping your audience from admiring you,
Arnold
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