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Originally Posted by theknife
it's only going to work on copies of releases that are registered to specific individuals or organizations, right? so while it might slow the initial upload of a new release to the Internet, it's not going to mean much once the movie goes to dvd. in addition, how long before someone figures out how to strip the FirstSource encryption? as we all know, in the arms race of DRM, for every measure, there's usually a countermeasure - and there's folks out there who live for this kind of challenge  |
No, this is not about registered or watermarked copies given to e.g. media representatives but about tracking the releasers who do the initial seeding of a particular work on BT or ed2k networks. The recent
BitTorrent study demonstrated well that it typically takes days until complete copies of a large file (besides the copy of the seeder) start to appear on the network. During these days if is extremely easy to track down the IP number of the person who is feeding the file to the big public. It is much easier for the copyright nazis to make a court case against the original releaser who is doing the uploading consciously and intentionally than against common downloaders who upload chunks of the file just because you can not download without uploading on BitTorrent and ed2k.
- tg
