Re: Security Service Individually Watermarked

["Michael C. Berch" <mcb>]

Hmmm.  I'm dubious about a couple of things here.  First, I'm not 
convinced of the ability of a digital watermark to survive arbitrary 
transformations of the content (i.e., different MP3 encoders and 
various bit rates).  Secondly, and probably more important for the 
commercial aspect, I thought that a number of large radio stations had 
their music libraries on hard disks for remote operation -- that is, 
when CDs arrive they are ripped onto hard disks, and then the music 
programmer can just do it all in software.  Especially important for 
all those Clear Channel stations that run remote out of San Antonio 
while pretending to be local to the market.

If that's true I'd guess discs marked "do not play in computer" would 
just be tossed.

-- 
Michael C. Berch
mcb