Een groep Web music giganten hebben een techniek aangekondigd waarmee .mp3 files van een digitaal watermerk voorzien kunnen worden. CNN heeft er een artikel over, waarvan hier een stukje:
On Monday morning, Liquid Audio, MP3, CDnow and a collection of record labels and other companies announced they were forming a coalition to watermark digitally distributed music.The move is touted by the coalition's organizers as a step toward the day when music labels see value in adopting the Internet as a legitimate distribution channel, but critics argue that short of complete distribution security, the record industry will never be brought into the Internet fold.
The group of companies, dubbed the Genuine Music Coalition, promises a technology that will designate authorized MP3 audio files with a logo, marking them as the certified property of legal distributors. Coalition members readily admit that this deal will not single-handedly pull the record industry off the fence and into large Internet investments. The only thing that could do that, jokes MP3 CEO Michael Robertson, is "a million zillion dollars."
