Too late to pursue an engineering career?

[CDS]

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

I'm going to take a wild guess what will happen to files that are encoded this way...

THEY WILL NOT GET PLAYED BACK!


Yes sir, that's one brilliant solution, right there.....

Well in tandem:

Every car that rides needs a key to start it first :)

[joelpatterson]

Generally, in my experience, the key comes free with the car, they don't make you sign a loyalty oath and non-disclosure agreement and blindfold you and spirit you off to a secret rendevous...

Anyway, the larger point here is that all these 'control' schemes that seek to bullwhip people into ceasing and desisting from downloading music are... what's the word?... oh yeah... "doomed."

Seriously, you're an unknown band, desperate for exposure... why in God's name would you sign on to this protocol that treats your potential fans like suspects in a line-up? I don't have this sacred "key" to access your music? I guess I'll never hear it. My loss, certainly, but...

[CDS]

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

Generally, in my experience, the key comes free with the car, they don't make you sign a loyalty oath and non-disclosure agreement and blindfold you and spirit you off to a secret rendevous...

Anyway, the larger point here is that all these 'control' schemes that seek to bullwhip people into ceasing and desisting from downloading music are... what's the word?... oh yeah... "doomed."

Seriously, you're an unknown band, desperate for exposure... why in God's name would you sign on to this protocol that treats your potential fans like suspects in a line-up? I don't have this sacred "key" to access your music? I guess I'll never hear it. My loss, certainly, but...

That would be the way the legacy DRM crowd would make it work,

(this would only work pending a law or industry standard enforces it)

What I am talking about is a simple background "check" process that will allow a user to define their e-mail address the first time they play a audio or video file in a updated operating system (PC/Mac), then thereafter "Key" all incoming media files with this e-mail address all working in the background. Whether the media is free or paid, the same Key works for the user. When the user buy a new ipod or dap, they enter in their email address into itunes and it syncs with the email key saved in the files to allow playback (same is true for any media player). "Well what about CDs?" you may ask...

Well there is a nice nifty technology that exist that combines pressed CD and a "cd-r area" on the same disc where this email keying method would be burned in (branded) automatically on the first insert of a key compliant drive/device. Heres proof this tech has been in the world since 2003 http://www.emedialive.com/Articles/R...ArticleID=7425

With this method explained above, users still download and use media files anywhere they want, just like today, but the only difference is that they can only get file from a "source location", not from other pre-keyed users/locations)

The source files can be prepared in such a way using a MD5 checksum method to ensure impossible tampering by hackers.
Again, whether this band want to give mp3s away for free or sell them, the method I explain would answer everyones issue.

The problem? The industry is too full of people ready to wear tech titles but don't know nothing about technology to help the creative sector protect your copyrights.

Piracy could END in an instant and the above info proves this. BTW, when is the last time you seen a piece of Protools software running without the hardware piece? The hardware piece = the key for PT and no hacker has yet to circumvent this to work with internal sound cards (Except that crappy PT FREE edition for Win ME which was built to deliver on sound cards anyway).

[joelpatterson]

It does sound pretty airtight, except for the part of getting everyone to go along wth it. Well, good luck, we'll see what happens.