On Jan 10, 2014, at 15:20 , Karl Dubost <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 11 janv. 2014 à 01:56, David Singer <[email protected]> a écrit : >> 1) Define the system such that all players must detect watermarks and refuse >> to play unlicensed content. > > not acceptable for the users point of view. "Users considered guilty before > the crime." Plus with all the issues of making possible for a users to make > his/her content survive through times. Imagine if all the vinyl we had > accumulated at home became suddenly unplayable because we can't digitize them > to listen them on our mp3 player and all future coming formats/technologies > after that.
Yes, it has all sorts of problems apart from simply not working. I mentioned it merely as a logical possibility (and because there was a serious proposal for such a system back in the 90s, but for the life of me I cannot remember the name). David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
