This week I visited the Fruitytech company. It was a very nice meeting and they showed us some of their new protection schemes: Watermarking. A watermark is something you add to a music piece f.e. an MP3 so afterwards you can always find out who bought or created the copyright MP3. You can not hear the changes but sophisticated programs can ‘hear’ this watermark and translate it: who bought what and where. It is less restricting then DRM as in no restrictions at all and it doesn’t treat customers as criminals. This might be the solution for legal downloading of copyright music. Including a watermark in copyleft music, which is free to download, could help authors protect their rights as a creator! Watermarks, future of copyright music?
