43 points | by pabs3 11 hours ago ago
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Does anyone know if donating to Anna's Archive is likely to result in legal problems for me?
Time for Ek to realize "app fairness" is a two-way street. ;)
So what exactly can the music industry do that the publishing industry didn't already try?
Watermark files per unique user and go after whoever leaks them.
Diff two copies and remove the diff.
I doubt they'd just add a UUID in a file header somewhere. If they uniquely modify the actual audio samples in a way that is inaudible during casual listening, that would be much harder to "diff", I think.
Does anyone know if donating to Anna's Archive is likely to result in legal problems for me?
Time for Ek to realize "app fairness" is a two-way street. ;)
So what exactly can the music industry do that the publishing industry didn't already try?
Watermark files per unique user and go after whoever leaks them.
Diff two copies and remove the diff.
I doubt they'd just add a UUID in a file header somewhere. If they uniquely modify the actual audio samples in a way that is inaudible during casual listening, that would be much harder to "diff", I think.