Microsoft to Place ID Tags in Music, Track You
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Rather than try to prevent people from copying or sharing music with drm, Microsoft has patented a watermarking procedure that will allow them to tag music with IDs that are very hard to remove.
First take: this is bad, bad news. While Ars Technica believes that this could help to get rid of the much hated DRM, I believe the replacement is far worse. Now instead of merely being annoying in preventing you from copying a CD, the RIAA will be able to track music by ID to see where (and who) it came from. If your son shares a song online that's from your CD collection, you will be much easier to find and prosecute.
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Well it is definitely worse than DRM.They are taking advantage of the fact that most of the people hate DRM to push the limit further. Very clever!I still wonder how to improve DRM and make them lovable..lol