J Viray

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• June 26, 2001, on List of Weasels:

  You clowns! There is no way to successfully protect copyright infringement if the law doesn't punish offenders consistently. The little "watermarks" and web tricks cannot stop people from copying media. One might say, look at the doomed secure digital music initiative, they have all sorts of technologies to thwart copying using proprietary digital speakers and so on. Realaudio and liquid audio have very robust copy protection as well. Yet, in the end, we aren't looking at bizarre images or listening to music distorted through encryption, at the end, we will *always* have the clean unencrypted output. So Streambox VCR, or even a simple audio recording program, Photoshop or the Print Screen key will bypass even the most sophisticated anti-copying measures. Of course, the best current (June 2001) technology I've seen to prevent the "right click save to disk" system is simply a javascript call to the image, but even that doesn't stop a cache search. BTW, my e-mail is traumerei@opera...