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Old 04-06-2008, 11:50 AM  
dready
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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz View Post
Well its one of the ideas Ive been putting out there the last 2 or 3 months or so. Im sure there is a way to do it. Overlay a watermark with a code that corresponds to each member. Put in your TOS that if your content is given away and found out in the wild they are subject to being blacklisted from processors, and or sued etc. Start going after the people releasing your content. Should be able to be done server side somehow. Someone needs to make a tool to do this that is easy to implement. Best people to do this would be programs that have non compete upsells such as Webcam companies, dating companies etc. Offer the tool free for simply including an upsell in the paysites members area. Still give the paysite owner a percentage of sales of the upsell even. Get all the cms companies to make integration simple. Do this industry wide and you'll see your content theft problems start to shrink.
It can be done simply by editing the file headers... but that is easy to strip off. If you want something more robust, digimarc is pretty much it. They hold all the patents for the technology. You can crop, resize, filter, etc. quite a lot before the watermark is finally corruputed. For video, I'm not sure of a comparable system.
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