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Microsoft promise DRM for DRM-free tracks
According to patent it's busily filed, Microsoft have invented a way to put DRM fingerprints on DRM-free tracks.
It might be the first time anyone's patented a paradox, but MS claims it could allow record labels to track what happens to the files with "stealthy audio watermarking" - presumably someone warned against calling it "super-sneaky nosey technology" in case it looked kind-of spylike.
MS also claim that it's impossible to remove the audio fingerprint, and that each print is unique.
1 comment:
The patent was filed nearly 3 1/2 years ago and features techniques ("chess watermarks") first described in 2000 or so if memory serves. More sterling work, Wired, you uncritical, technologically illiterate shower of bastards.
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