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.


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