Digital Watermarking occurs at far too low a level in the stream to be detectable in playback. It\'s much ado about nothing. The refrigerator cycling on and off in the kitchen probably has a more profound audio result. Anybody who talks about audible results in the same paragraph as \"ripping to MP3\" has pretty much blown his own argument right out of the water, anyway.
That could be the case , although mp3 happens to be the only medium avalible for internet audio even if it is not the best quality .
I just wanted to past what i found on the internet and lt evyone draw there own conclusions .
As far as the refrigerator goes, if your in to serious audio I hope you dont have the frig on the same circuit as your audio equiptment.
Its best to isolate a seperate grounded circuit for your audio recording equiptment.
I can\'t imagine it\'s just a matter of ability to turn up a receipt or not. While it\'s a good idea to keep receipts, it\'s not illegal to lose them. It\'s certainly not proof of piracy to be unable to show a receipt.
My guess about how this would work is this: Uniquely watermark the samples from each copy of a sample library using something like that described at numericalsound (link above). Then generate a list of pirated copies. That is to say, the same pirated copy probably gets spread around enough that the developers can search pirate forums, find one that\'s being pirated, add the id for that particular watermark to a list of \"badies.\"
Then, when a production comes out that uses their samples, they check the watermark. If it\'s one from the bad list, this composer is either using a copy that was pirated or they distributed their licensed copies to others.
Am I way off the mark here? (excuse the pun) Is this the way it\'s done?
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