Watermarking this is virtually pointless, if not detrimental. The only utility is perhaps shielding Adobe from liability. Beyond that, it's simply delaying the

Watermarking this is virtually pointless, if not detrimental. The only utility is perhaps shielding Adobe from liability. Beyond that, it's simply delaying the day when the authenticity of uncorroborated audio recordings falls under heavy suspicion by default. In the mean time, the technology will exist in other, open-source incarnations soon enough (if it doesn't already, albeit in far less user-friendly forms). The efficacy of these in successfully framing people will be far higher if the output of the most popular tool (Adobe's) is watermarked. Intelligence agencies probably already have the technology perfected, and I'm sure the output is devoid of watermarks.