Could audio watermarking help make MP3s free?

Vikingod · Aug 16, 2007, 02:18 PM

Source: ComputerWorld
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A technology mostly associated today with crackdowns on music and movie pirates could instead be used to help make multimedia content free -- and file-sharing legal.

So claims a small Seattle firm, Activated Content Corp., which appears to be the leader in the small but growing field of audio watermarking.

Audio watermarking involves taking a song and manipulating it digitally to create an audio pattern that is unmistakable to the right software -- such as Activated's -- though undetectable by human ears.

Paradox Enigma · Aug 16, 2007, 04:57 PM

...and then someone figures out how to embed subliminal audio messages...

.... Buy Pepsi!....

Aug 16, 2007, 02:18 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Could audio watermarking help make MP3s free? Source: ComputerWorld __________ A technology mostly associated today with crackdowns on music and movie pirates could instead be used to help make multimedia content free -- and file-sharing legal. So claims a small Seattle firm, Activated Content Corp., which appears to be the leader in the small but growing field of audio watermarking. Audio watermarking involves taking a song and manipulating it digitally to create an audio pattern that is unmistakable to the right software -- such as Activated's -- though undetectable by human ears.

Aug 16, 2007, 04:57 PM	#2
Paradox Enigma Lurker Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Planet Earth (I think) Posts: 126 Rep Power: 0	...and then someone figures out how to embed subliminal audio messages... .... Buy Pepsi!.... __________________ ...thread killer...