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People have been trying to watermark digital media for decades, when there was (still is) a very strong financial incentive to get it working. It never worked.
by brap 3y ago
People have been trying to watermark digital media for decades, when there was (still is) a very strong financial incentive to get it working. It never worked. I don’t think it ever will work.
- ipnon 3y ago“Information wants to be free.”
- wly_cdgr 3y agoMore like, "people want to steal information"
- treyd 3y agoCopying information isn't the same as stealing. To steal means to take away.
- artninja1988 3y agoControl+C, Control+Vs in your path
- wyldfire 3y agoYou can still declare success if you lower the bar to "we can catch leaks/pirates and in particular we can know which internal folks should no longer be trusted. ... as long as they don't attempt to circumvent the fingerprint"
- ActorNightly 3y agoYou are confusing access restrictions with signing. You can easily sign digital media to show that it was made by you.
- ygjb 3y agoYou are confusing a digital signature for evidence of anything other than an attestation. If you create a digital record, then sign it, then that signature is only an attestation of may claim you make, not evidence of that claim. That is the problem with relying on technology to establish trust - the moment you attach an economic benefit to a technology you incentivize people to circumvent it, or to leverage it to commit fraud.