New Way to Track Pirated Audio Copies

The Fraunhofer Institute, creator of the MP3, has been presenting a new technology, MusicTrace, which adds a watermark in music tracks stored on physical media (i.e. CD). The technology is designed to track pirated copies.

The process is currently limited to audio CD, but is being validated for online legal audio contents. If it turns to be effective, Music Majors might force online music stores to integrate it into their current DRM.

In the past history, many anti-piracy protections have been released, and for this new one as for the previous ones, the real question is: How long it will take to crack it?


My Take
Where there's a will... there's a way. I certainly understand the recording industries desire to protect its assets, but let's face it... The genie is most definitely out of the bottle, and there is effectively no way to prevent those with the knowledge and desire to subvert these copyright protections from doing so. Much like gun control, the only people that are going to be affected by measures like this are those that are NOT going to try and get around the system in the first place...



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