Japanese Recording Industry Tracks Online Music Files
from the go-go-trackers dept
The Japanese equivalent of the RIAA announced today that they had successfully tracked "watermarked" digital music files that they surreptitiously put online. They say that using such a system would discourage people from downloading unauthorized music files, since those files could be tracked back to where they originated from. Of course, if such watermarks become widespread, it won't take long before people create ways to strip the watermark files from the songs.
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